Talk:Fort Jackson (South Carolina)

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I believe the FTUs have been closed across the board by TRADOC, effective sometime September 2004. I know that this was the case with Knox, and have heard from various places that it was TRADOC wide.

-John

[edit] Soliders or soldiers

I see you put soliders into lower case. According the GEN Schoomaker, he states that the word Solidier should be capitalized. Should we capitalize? --Hal06 14:28, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Just because one General made the statement does not mean that it is an accepted fact. Not to detract from the Army in any way, but more to the fact that the general population doesn't capitalize it. And if it is capitalized, I will make the argument that sailor should be capitalized to Sailor :-)

Supersquid 00:43, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Schoomaker is on a bizarre trip where he thinks capitalizing the word "soldier" somehow emphasizes its importance. The correct way, by all stylebooks except the army, is lower case. It is not a proper noun, therefore not capitalized. The army has also apparently deemed generic unit names to be capitalized (i.e. "the Brigade," "the Platoon" is wrong. On the other hand, "1st Brigade" or "1st Platoon" is capitalized because it is a name of a specific unit). I, for one, will continue to revert to the proper lower case whenever I see it on here. I'm not bound by the Chief of Staff's rule :-)--Nobunaga24 00:58, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

I believe that if you are saying soldier in a generic sense, you should lower-case the first letter. But, if you are refering to a soldier of the United States Army for example, it should be capitalized. USS Noob Hunter (talk) 08:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Non-notable and other references

I removed some references that were non-notable, not NPOV, and basiclly didn't see any use of them in the article. Jerry G. Sweeton Jr. 16:46, 3 October 2006 (UTC)