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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Army basic 1986, Tank Hill, Ft Jackson, SC. We had reserve drills on rotations. Every 2 weeks we’re proving to the new drills that we weren’t day 1 recruits.
Lots of yelling and even more PT. It was different for every rotation on their preference, but dying cockroach was common.
Closest they came to touching us was brim of their hat on our forehead. Screaming. And PT. Repeat.
I’ve rarely thought twice about them since. My OCS TAC officers on the other hand, screw you CPT Chamberlain!
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