Here’s something to make you smile on a Friday. Enjoy it, but don’t hold me to it being “official policy”. It reminds me of the sort of stuff we used to pass around the Pentagon on April 1st. I’ve included only portions of the original message, and made some wording changes to make it fit in this context.
NEW POLICY FOR SOLDIERS IN TRAINING ANNOUNCED
After a lot of long hours and hard work by staff, the Army recently announced it is ready to give every Soldier in basic training the Training Assessment of Cognitive Operations, or the TACO test. Realizing that not all Soldiers learn at the same level, the Army will two versions. For those Soldiers who struggle with learning, the Army will have an easy version called the Soft TACO. For those high speed Soldiers who need to be challenged, the Army will have a difficult version called the Hard TACO. Of course the Army will grade all assessments on a bell curve which will be called the TACO Bell. Those Soldiers who fail to achieve a passing score on their first attempt, will be placed in remedial training with a Basic Educational Appraisal-Not Satisfactory or BEANS. So to recap, the new plan is to give every Soldier in basic training a TACO. They can have a Soft Taco or Hard TACO, it all depends on their abilities. Those who cannot handle a TACO will be given BEANS.
