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Sounds good to me. Some kids never learned basic manners from their parents. I call that "Home Training". Plus, the military recruit needs to learn to follow orders and pay attention to detail all under stress. (Not like you didn't know that already!)
What I don't understand is why you have to say "sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence:
"Sir, this recruit does not understand the drill instructor's request, sir."
It would be like saying:
"Please may I have another slice of pie, please?"
Sounds good to me. Some kids never learned basic manners from their parents. I call that "Home Training". Plus, the military recruit needs to learn to follow orders and pay attention to detail all under stress. (Not like you didn't know that already!)
What I don't understand is why you have to say "sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence:
"Sir, this recruit does not understand the drill instructor's request, sir."
It would be like saying:
"Please may I have another slice of pie, please?"
...one of my uncles had a female instructor knock him on his butt with a simple "chest shove".
Profanity has its uses and used sparingly can be effective.
The simple answer to that is Marine boot camp is a textbook example of intensive Pavlovian conditioning and it is eminently effective. No one who manages to get through the 13 week cycle at Parris Island (or San Diego) is the same person who started.But why do they need to say "Sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence? It seems redundant. Inefficient, in fact.
Sounds good to me. Some kids never learned basic manners from their parents. I call that "Home Training". Plus, the military recruit needs to learn to follow orders and pay attention to detail all under stress. (Not like you didn't know that already!)What I don't understand is why you have to say "sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence:
"Sir, this recruit does not understand the drill instructor's request, sir."
It would be like saying:
"Please may I have another slice of pie, please?"
But why do they need to say "Sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence? It seems redundant. Inefficient, in fact.
Sounds good to me. Some kids never learned basic manners from their parents. I call that "Home Training". Plus, the military recruit needs to learn to follow orders and pay attention to detail all under stress. (Not like you didn't know that already!)What I don't understand is why you have to say "sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence:
"Sir, this recruit does not understand the drill instructor's request, sir."
It would be like saying:
"Please may I have another slice of pie, please?"
But why do they need to say "Sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence? It seems redundant. Inefficient, in fact.
Sounds good to me. Some kids never learned basic manners from their parents. I call that "Home Training". Plus, the military recruit needs to learn to follow orders and pay attention to detail all under stress. (Not like you didn't know that already!)
But why do they need to say "Sir" at the beginning and end of the sentence? It seems redundant. Inefficient, in fact.
In the Air Force we didn't use sir twice. It was only used once, to open a reporting statement.
Before you could address a DI, you had to say "Sir, trainee ______ reports" and then make your statement. If asked a question, you had to first respond with that, with the addition of "as ordered" before you could answer.
Any variation on the statement at all led to inevitable humiliation and embarrassment.
As far as the profanity, I don't remember a DI ever using any. At least not the big ones.