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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (107747)	8/26/2005 1:50:16 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Obviously you and I have very different ideas of what brain washing is so we'll just have to leave it be I guess. I would say however that part of your training in boot camp is to differentiate between a legal and an illegal order. And your trained to not obey the illegal order because you are just as liable then as the officer or whomever that gave you the order. That doesn't sound like mindless sheep being trained to obey an order with no thought to me. Part of the boot camp experience is stress. We want to find out if our new recruits can function under high stress without losing it. Thus the screaming, pushups, punishments, lack of sleep, etc. I want to find out in boot camp that someone can not deal with stress, not find out when we are 600' underwater and flooding and some guy freaks out rather then doing his job. We tried a kinder and gentler boot camp experience by the way which was scrapped. Why? Because soldiers were losing it on the field of battle that would have been scrubbed back in boot camp. They are going to get their baptism under stress and it's far better it happen in the controlled environment of boot camp IMO. Well and in the Army's opinion now also.