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Did We Baby Today’s Soldiers? | Old School vs. New School Military Mindsets

August 07, 2025 • Tommie Jones & Lance Taylor • Season 1 • Episode 30

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Are today’s Soldiers softer… or just different?

And more importantly—did we help make them that way?

In this episode of Four Titles, One Truth, we’re going head-to-head on one of the most debated topics in the military:

Old school versus new school.

We get into:

•Whether today’s military culture has gotten “too soft”

•How leadership expectations have changed over time

•The role we played as senior NCOs and Officers in shaping this new generation

•If being more emotionally aware is really a weakness—or an evolution

•What we miss (and don’t miss) about the old-school Army

•And the truth about how much tougher “we” really were

This one’s full of perspective, reflection, and a few hard truths. If you’ve ever said “it wasn’t like that back in my day,” or heard it one too many times—you’re gonna want to hear this one.