Bayonet Skills To Be Omitted From Basic Training For Modern Soldiers

Close Combat Training No more cries of "give them the cold steel!" U.S. Army

From Popular Science:

General wants to reshape U.S. Army's basic training to reflect the demands of modern warfare.

A general in command of U.S. Army training says that a new generation of video-gaming, computer-savvy but less physically fit soldiers will no longer learn how to disembowel an enemy with a bayonet. The passing of the old infantry standby may simply reflect a modern battlefield that has become both more tech-heavy and more tactically complex, according to AP and other news sources.

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