Daniel P. Driscoll

And one of the things that was different about BASIC when I went through than when they are going through is

The basic training drill sergeants are actually now leading them.

They're serving as their squad leaders.

They're serving as their platoon leaders and part of the training cycle.

And when I would talk to these drill sergeants, what they would tell me is each iteration of this exercise with these soldiers who had been in two to five weeks, they were actually learning new things that were making them better at the exercise.

they were passing on to the next cycle of students.

And actually, some of these lessons, when we were pinpointing it, were trickling up to the Pentagon.

And so what's kind of so remarkable about that Gen Z crowd and their kind of tech savviness is we have to have it as a nation.

Back to Ukraine being this kind of the Silicon Valley or the innovation

point of war, what's happening is this mixture of digital tools and hardware tools are both being used to inflict violence on human beings.

And I think we as an army, and if you look at my generation, we kind of understand hardware.

I have a dash of digital experience.

But you talk to these new soldiers coming in, and they can pick up an FPV drone, and they can figure that thing out in two minutes.

And from playing video games growing up, this is kind of what's wild to me.

all of, I'm not a gamer, but we'll remark that I am just so bad at the controls and getting it to work.

You give it to a 19 year old and they're able to get it in windows.

They're able to get it to open doors.

They're able to get these drones into places that the rest of us can't just instinctually.

And that may sound trite and that may sound like a minor issue.

But when I've done raids with the ATF, the way they now do their raids is