I have no idea what kind of unit you're in.

Well, sticking with that knowledge, let's just roll with, "one where putting together a PT program isn't an option."

But maybe you need someone to walk you through it. Maybe you can't handle individual responsibility and need a "team" to fall back on.

Your condescension is noted. It's interesting to see a fellow NCO so sneeringly refer to the concept of a team.

If you pan around the MI cats here, there are a variety of different ways to do MI, a great many of which involve still acting like soldiers. My time here has led me to question the purpose of utilizing soldiers for incredibly strategic purposes to the point that you essentially undo everything about them that was done by BCT. My personal preferences run far more to the FORSCOM side of the house-- maybe that's because I started in FORSCOM, who knows? The soldiers with whom I went through DLI who came out here and will ETS soon never became soldiers by any stretch of the imagination regarding what people (especially other soldiers) think soldiers are. They will serve their one contract and, seeing that walking across the street to work for a civilian agency as a civilian wouldn't require them to do nearly as much 350-1 training, they'll walk across the street and there won't be much of a cultural change for them to be civilians at all.

So yeah, I blame this slice of INSCOM. For not resembling the military one bit. For being so bad at the Army that it implements PT lopsidedly if at all, and that it'll put kids who've not been to a rifle range into an EST for the SAW rather than reinforce rifle marksmanship. It's a laughable, Private Benjamin-esque version of the Army.

I threw this post up here to reflect on why I agree with the SMAJ after a year with zero organized PT and what it's been like not to have it and what it feels like to be in a unit without it. If a bunch of people who don't have the same experience want to yell at me about how I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth, that's fine. But I've lived PT every day and I've lived PT half-assed sometimes and I've lived PT never and I'm telling you it affects more than just people's APFT scores.

The "doing" that I'll be doing is working on my PCS for 2016. Fort Meade isn't going to change. I'm just not a Fort Meade soldier, and don't want to be, so I'll do my bit to change that.