History fail.
I agree about the current medocrity, but I also don't remember being trained in small arms in high skewl, not even in ROTC... Take a look at your own culture of violence ( movies, video games, even children's TV programming) before you call Russians "savages".
Right now as we speak, russian children are trained to operate/field strip/ maintain small arms. In the classroom. Kinda like the US use to do. Children here are taught mediocrity, that "everybody is winner" and we all get trophies for trying. pretty stark contrast..
I agree about the current medocrity, but I also don't remember being trained in small arms in high skewl, not even in ROTC... Take a look at your own culture of violence ( movies, video games, even children's TV programming) before you call Russians "savages".