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Originally posted by SplitzSTG
Well, I can say that I personally witnessed a Drill Sgt standing on the chest of another recruit, yelling at him. BUT, the kid was about to make a mistake on a live-fire range and was putting the whole platoon in danger.
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"I have been through Army Infantry training."
A lot of us have. The vast majority lived through it.
But, what if that boot had died while the DI was standing on his chest?
Or, if someone in that other platoon had died of heat stroke?
Whle being the first to admit that there's a major difference between the military and a fraternity, here's also a difference between "training" and brutality.
To a lesser extent than the military, the failure to understand that difference, and the death or physical injuries to pledges during previous years is what brought on all of these strict rules on hazing.
It isn't PC. It's stupidity on our part -- and then fostering the reputation by bragging about what we went through, what we did to the next classes and fables of what great drinkers and partyers we are/were which grow by the year. Who built and protected that reputation?