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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They’ve mellowed out some in more recent decades, but there really was a time when they were encouraged to be that mean. It was thought to prepare the recruits for the stresses of battlefield life. Nowadays they take a different approach.
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