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 isn’t to be mean, its to break the weakness out of you so that you’re effective in your duties.
In the modern (US) military, they’re usually not allowed to do this anymore because ‘muh feelings’, leading to a decline in the performance of our military.
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