In American media, Drill Sergeants are often portrayed as mean and shouty. Yelling at recruits / treating them like garbage.
The only thing I could think of is that they’re going for a “military service is hard so I’m going to make this as unpleasant for you as possible because life is hard” kind of thing, but couldn’t discipline be instilled in soldiers without the yelling and humiliation? Why is this the only way?
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The idea is to “destroy” the individuality/humanity and re-build people into soldiers in 2-3 months. Once you become a “solider”, a “professional”, you don’t need to get yelled at for no reason. It really only lasts(lasted) for a couple weeks of your career. The practice of “destroying” the humanity of recruits has become or is becoming out of fashion in the west over the last decade; there is A/B comparison ongoing on effectiveness of soldiers vs training received during basic. I’m not sure if we will get the results – in Canada it appears society is okay with potentially losing some of the effectiveness and have completely removed the de-humanizing portions of basic training.
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