Basic training filters out the stupid: those who cannot understand that there is a proper time and place to be a talkative smartass. Basic training is about learning, not showing off. Anyone who cannot check thier pride, check thier attitude, for a few weeks will not make a good soldier.
Yes. Basic isnt like the movies: a quick few weeks afterwhich one is a soldier. Basic is only the very start of training. More advanced stuff comes later at more trade-specific training. Basic is deinitely not the place to test potential soldiers for such problems.
