http://armystrongstories.com Army Strong Stories is an official U.S. Army blog portal created to share personal Soldier stories. Its purpose is to promote discussion surrounding life in the military, communicate the impact of day-to-day military life and follow the paths of Soldiers enlisted in different areas of the U.S. Army as they experience new opportunities. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:05 GMT Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:30:05 GMT http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/what-happen-to-policing-up-after-ourselves/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/'>John Pratt</a><br />I've been in the Army for awhile now and as a former junior enlisted, NCO, junior officer, etc, I've seen a number of changes in the Army in the last 25 years. Sure, our young soldier's and officer's are smarter and brighter these days. However, the Army has gotton very soft and undiscipline as well. The lack of discipline amongst the ranks is very disheartening. It's not a matter of being great Americans and deploying consecutively to...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/what-happen-to-policing-up-after-ourselves/">read more</a> Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:50:00 GMT http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/what-happen-to-policing-up-after-ourselves/ http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/is-army-culture-vanishing-with-contractors/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/'>John Pratt</a><br />Deploy down range today and you'll see a number of contractors working alongside the military doing a number of tasks. Estimates now say that there are approximately 7 to 1 ratio of civlian to military in combat. That is a significant amount. Why has the military and specifically from an Army perspective that there are so many civlilans in Iraq or Afghanistan? Has the Army lost it's ability to do our mission by ourselves? We have either downsized or consolidated specialized tasks that we no...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/is-army-culture-vanishing-with-contractors/">read more</a> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:35:00 GMT http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/john-pratt/is-army-culture-vanishing-with-contractors/