Our military adopting the Grendel?

[sgt_murf]

Infantry NCO and Officer Courses need to be as violent as practically possible, with maybe 5% classroom time at the most, and a brutal environment that has zero room for pansies, weak-hearted, and the limp-wristed. The corporate career ladder track system with checks and boxes, matrices, and gay terms thrown about like "vignettes" and such needs to get tossed out the window. There is too much glossing over of what you really do, and that is to deploy to foreign soil, locate, fix, close with, and destroy the enemy with fire and maneuver or direct close combat, until the mission is accomplished. This tickle-me Elmo crap has got to go.
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HOLY crap... tickle me Elmo ...
LR that reminds me of 2 years ago 2 other Senior NCOs, a Captain and I was setting up a joint effort Best Warrior Competition in PA. we had the Ruck march etc etc control element of a fire squad, eval, Weapons trainng Live fire, maintence, board apperances,etc etc you know the drill.
Welllllll this Sister Battalion just had to go to the field with us, during the planning phase I and well as countless Senior NCOs explained to Both Battalion Commanders this was a NCO lead competition with CSMs in charge. Coupled with select Officers to achieve the scoring based on the NCOs Ratings of the competitors. Any way this certain BC (not Mine) had his HQs element there with their full support unit, thus effectively disrupting every aspect of the competition. Several Times the Senior NCOs from my Battalion lit them up for interfering. So the NCO replacing me and I had this great Idea we went to Wal-Mart, at the end during the awards ceromony we Presented that BC a Tickle me Elmo. Funny he was excited about it UNTIL he sat down and My former BC (whom only showed up for the awards ceromony as we requested) leaned over whispered in his ear and explained the message behind it. He was furious, as we was not in his food chain and hat every NCO involved had way over 20 years was basically untouchable. He stated that we as NCOs was unprofessional, to which we responded that surely he was correct and that we should follow his lead and interrupt every training event with a candy @$$ idea that we could devise. Fuming out of the tent my whole senior leadership Field Grades, Senior NCOs, and a few E-6 and below involved burst into laughter and basically rolled on the floor.
(P.S. he left the Tickle Me Elmo on the floor of the Tent, I retrieved it and have it to this day as a reminder)