She's right about the being dead if they don't improve. New recruits that don't train like it's life and death, well sadly, they die. Much better to be spitting up blood now than dying a ignoble death on the battlefield later. Even with good training and good luck, you can still die. War is a bitch and they are meat for the grinder. This isn't peacetimes where a soldier can get by with half assed training.