Need to complain

[jilena]

I am with Loke on this one though honestly I would extend it to 99% of all people not just Americans. Any day I actually allow myself to notice the things people say and do I realize yet again why I don't watch TV and avoid knowing too much about what people these days are doing. The out of control sense of entitlement and general ignorance of people is disgusting. *shrug*

[fastboy21]

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.

[RKromwell]

I joined in 89, saw a few folks get their ass kicked. That being said, only one guy ever got touched during basic.

[MiRo2]

In the current army, the only time I've heard of or seen people getting their asses kicked was by their peers, never by a superior.