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 can be but it depends on the instructor themselves. But they whole point of the yelling, as described to me by my MTI, is to teach you how to think clearly under pressure. If you can think and problem solve while a grown man is screaming in your face, you can react properly in just about any day to day situation. Now in most cases of basic training/boot camp nowadays, they arent cruel or treat you like garbage. They can be mean, yeah, but their job is to instruct you and teach you. Basically break you down and build you into what the military wants you to be.
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