Hit Me, But Don't Hurt Me

Jeeshus what the hell is happening to the Army?

 

Talk about a commander way over-reacting...that douche should have been sacked right away.

 

Oh golly gee willickers, our soldiers training to be agressive and fighters..heaven for bid!

 

And I will end with a "and in my day"...I was a Marine Plt Sgt. I didn't tolerate barracks fighting (sometimes racially started,, or the two Marines just had a grudge to settle)...so, I would take the two offending Marines, march their silly azzes down to the Gym, sign out some boxing gear and and a stop watch, put them in the ring, explain some quick rules like no biting, no eye gouging and no hitting below the belt...send them to opposite corners, anounce they now had 3, 3 minute rounds to get what ever anger they had towards each other out of their systems, ring the bell and let em at it. Once the allotted time was done, or one or the other was finished or knocked out..it was over. Done, Kaput, no more anger between the two Marines. And to reinforce what I was getting at, they were both assigned in the same fireteam, and the same cube (in a squadbay, Wall lockers faced one direction, and the bunks were on the otherside of the doors, creating "cubicals" down the squad bay)...And if any working party's came up and I needed two volinteers...those two got assigned to it. There was only one Color in the Corps..and that was Green. There were light Greens and Dark Greens, but by gawd they were all Green. And they would learn that that civilian prejudgous crap wouldn't fly in the Corps.

 

Not only that, but after their time in the ring, they learned to respect each other, and depend on each other.

 

But that wasn't the only time we used Boxing or Pugle-sticks, Martial arts, rifle with bayonet drills, hand to hand combat training, wrestling...all of these were used just in "General Training" sometime thru out the weekly training schedule.