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 entire purpose of military basic training is to stop a recruit from thinking and behaving in the manner a civilian does, and to start thinking and acting as a soldier does. There are many ways this can be accomplished, and the “yelling and frothing at the mouth” instructor was simply one of them.
But, it MUST be accomplished, or you will be sending troops into the field who are not prepared for what they will need to be able to do.
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