• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I have trouble believing that the military can’t control recruits in training.

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        4 hours ago

        Oh I haven’t. But isn’t the discipline pretty strict? I mean I’m sure they get all kinds of randos enlisting, but aren’t they controlled very strictly during their training, to prepare them to follow orders well later?

        I’m genuinely curious here. Feel free to educate me.

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          Naw, people are people no matter the situation. If you were an asshole before you join it’s not like you’ll just not be an asshole. You gotta make a choice to change and some people absolutely don’t take that path.

          And you’d be surprised what people will do knowing the consequences. Some people really just don’t give a fuck lol

          For example, while on restriction for getting a dui, one guy was told to clean the company commanders office. Took that as an opportunity to stand on the officers desk with a mop and cartoonishly slosh water over all his paperwork / mop the computer ect ect. He only got 30 more days of restrictions for that.

          Feel free to ask me whatever if you’re curious.

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            21 minutes ago

            So it’s quite the shit show? I never had any illusions that enlisting would change anyone, and in fact I’d expect the military to get more problematic people than average. I just thought they were decent at managing them.

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    6 hours ago

    Humerous…

    …But I see a blue checkmark, and I downvote. Nothing personal, but I will not support Twitter even indirectly.