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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
I agree that people/press outside the military excuse pretty much everything that goes on within the military. But that's because people with no military background can't say boo about the military without getting a response along the lines of: "You have no idea what you're talking about. Only people in the armed forces can possibly understand why this is necessary. We're humiliating this recruit to protect your lazy, unpatriotic butt, how dare you question us?"
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I've encountered this more times than you can imagine and never quite understood why the military is supposed to be some sacred cow where accountability is concerned. The worst by far was in high school with the JROTC kids who thought that the uniform made them untouchable. Unfortunately I did see some of what you would call hazing while I was in JROTC (kids being made to go off the rappelling tower or risk demotions/demerits, pushups being used as discipline by both the teachers and student commanders, holding kids at attention for several minutes, etc.) and I never really understood what purpose it served. Most of the kids subjected to this stuff never became the model cadets they would supposedly become after it.
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He likes hazing because it "breaks down egos".
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Yeah, no it doesn't. At least, not in all cases. In JROTC I'd say 90% of the kids who seriously got their balls busted ended up becoming more defiant and egotistic.