My father, who was a big part of the reason why I enlisted, went through Paris Island otw to Vietnam in 1969 for the Marines. He has always told me that Drill Sergeants were allowed to say anything (something they can't do today by regulation), use profanity, give personal insult, say things about religion, ethnicity, etc...but they couldn't lay a hand on you. Whoever says that they used to beat the crap out of someone as a rule is full of it.
Another thing, if you think "only being yelled at" makes the psych part very easy you dead wrong, and are speaking as someone who clearly has never been through military training. When you are completely tired, smell like shit even though you are allowed to shower twice a day, and have some guy acting like a fucking mad man waking you up to run five miles at 5 am, only to get called out and forced to do push ups until your elbows feel like they are about to break, in boots your feet don't fit right in, and chaffing on your thighs from too much sweat from your crotch, etc...then you can tell me its no big deal that some dude is yelling at you so loudly one inch from your face that you can smell the stench of whatever he had for dinner the night before...then you can tell me yelling doesn't matter and its cake.
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