Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
Fair question.
Either the students lack intelligence to learn that particular information, or there is a communication barrier, the material is not clear, or the teacher can't teach. Perhaps some of all of those reasons. I'm sure there are other reasons.
What is clear is that TSA is not getting the training job done very well.
I was an instructor during my military service career. I had one person who I had tried everything I could think of to teach one point. I finally cracked the barrier by sketching a diagram of a fairly complex system and for some reason the light came on. The learning curve went up drastically after that moment for that person. In fact he became an instructor some years later.
If you want to have a truly honest discussion, then you would admit that there's a difference between the instruction given at the service schools, which are doctrinally-based, and the unit-level SOPs at the line units which are situational. The first thing most First Stripers tell the FNGs is to forget all the hogwash they learned in school and pay attention to how it's really done in the trenches. TSA tries not to be that way, but I would be naive to say that it doesn't happen. Of course it happens.
So I guess all of your students ended up as Soldier of the Quarter, made the NCO ranks on the first attempt and walked away with all sorts of medals and awards? No troops who washed out or had any disciplinary problems whatsoever because of your perfect instruction?