Are US Marines really taught to shout "Kill!Kill!Kill!" ?
fred | 16.05.2003 02:07
At Marine boot camp it's constantly 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' There are contests to see which recruit can shout it the loudest. Every time you do a push-up you shout 'Kill!' I thought it was insane, but mouthed the word so as not to get in trouble.
Stephen Funk (ex-USmarine reserve) claims that :
"At Marine boot camp it's constantly 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' There are contests to see which recruit can shout it the loudest. Every time you do a push-up you shout 'Kill!' I thought it was insane, but mouthed the word so as not to get in trouble."
If this is true, do you feel OK about it ? Is this the normal practice in other army training ? Am I alone in thinking that military training has no need to go this far ? That the marines themselves are being insulted and degraded by being forced to do this ? Let alone what it does to their moral sense ?
And surely modern military operations require a subtler touch than this anyway ?
"At Marine boot camp it's constantly 'Kill! Kill! Kill!' There are contests to see which recruit can shout it the loudest. Every time you do a push-up you shout 'Kill!' I thought it was insane, but mouthed the word so as not to get in trouble."
If this is true, do you feel OK about it ? Is this the normal practice in other army training ? Am I alone in thinking that military training has no need to go this far ? That the marines themselves are being insulted and degraded by being forced to do this ? Let alone what it does to their moral sense ?
And surely modern military operations require a subtler touch than this anyway ?
fred
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