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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Went through USMC boot camp in 2009 and the movies are tame compared to reality. Full Metal Jacket is the closest, but take R Lee Emery and multiply him by four other DIs screaming at you with your only salvation the Senior telling them to stop. They aren’t technically allowed to hit you, but it happened in private occasionally when the squad bay doors were closed. None of the movies really portray the amount of fuck fuck games you do.
The point? When you’re pinned down in a ditch, your friend just got shot in the face next to you and the enemy is trying to maneuver on you, what are you going to do? Curl up in a ball and die because you can’t handle it?
The point is to be able to perform under pressure. If you can function while 4 grown men scream at you with knife hands flying, you’re dog shit tired because you’ve been smoked on the quarter deck twice today and now you have to reassemble the squad bag after your DIs just trashed it, you can probably function in most scenarios life throws at you.
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