This whole story is bullshit. When I was in Basic Training and AIT in '93/'94, there were all sorts of events, secular or otherwise, where we had the options of attending or being stuck in the barracks cleaning up. Sounds like a bunch of sniveling entitlement babies. 'America's Best and Brightest' in uniform.
Or, just as likely, some reporter took standard issue griping out of context, blew it out of proportion and decided to make a scandal out of it.
