MARINE CORPS LOWERS STANDARDS

The Marine Corps has been steadily lowering the bar on its grueling Infantry Officer Course – changes that top Marines say are not attempts to water down standards, but to more accurately replicate today’s real-world requirements. In other words, not enough recruits can hack it. One change is in the number of evaluated hikes required to pass the course. Under the previous rules, six of nine hikes were evaluated, and Marines had to pass five of those six evaluated hikes. Under the new requirements, only three of nine hikes will be evaluated, and Marines will have to pass all three evaluated hikes in order to graduate.
* “The few, the fewer, the Marines.”
* “Hiking is haaaaard!”
* Maybe if they made the hikes all downhill?
* I guess in today’s Marine Corps, you just take an Uber to the front.
* What if they, like, throw in a little participation trophy to anybody who completes the hike?
* Better hurry up with the robot soldiers.