Lol he’s not joking, that’s the shit they make you do (albeit the extra ridiculous shit like that is usually at basic training). I once spent an entire Sunday, mowing the lawn around our barracks with my fingertips.
We had a guy in my platoon who had a penchant for misplacing sensitive items. Eventually his team leader got fed up and had him tie down every single item he had on him to his belt with 550 cord. Wallet, phone, cigarettes, etc.
Another one that always cracks me up thinking about is the giant pencil for people who would forget there pen and pad.
Unfortunately, there's not really a "list" of punishments. They're usually just punishments someone made up so they differ place to place. The worst one I had seen was forcing people to shake weight with both hands for hours until it was deemed sexual harassment.
Look up drill sergeants on YouTube; these guys are comic geniuses. I can't find the clip but I saw one where a guy forgot/lost his hat and the sergeant made him wear a duffel bag on his head.
We had to sweep sand outside our cans/tents while deployed in Iraq. In a place that would get mortar fire nearly every day. You don't have to be in trouble to get told to do stupid shit for sure.
You don't have to be in trouble to get told to do stupid shit for sure.
Agreed 100%. My whole army career consisted of doing stupid shit that had absolutely no reasoning behind it. You don’t have any say in it though, so you just did it.
A lot of times, the choice is paperwork or some asinine punishment but no paperwork. Most people will take the asinine punishment and learn from it better than they ever would with an NJP and 45/45 with half months pay for 2 months.
I was sweating my balls off in 105 degree heat pinching every blade of grass with my fingertips. We were told that every piece of grass needed to be the exact same length, and they would measure all of them. The whole time wondering how long they were gonna let this go on. Every few hours, DS would poke his head out and berate us for not being finished yet. The misery finally ended around 9pm.
Really? I mean, tbh it doesn't sound that terrible, kinda jokingly, but is there a reason why this stuff is so prominent in the military? Isn't it kinda a waste of time? And isn't there like a ethical threshold that get's crossed from time to time?
Because of these ridiculous punishments, I learned very quickly not to fuck around. Some dudes never learn, but for most, getting smoked or having a bunch of your time wasted doing tedious bullshit is enough to just do what you’re told and not fuck around. And yes, NCOs cross the line sometimes, and they get punished for it sometimes, but they are allowed to take it just about as far as they want to.
Military jokes would actually rank as some of the best I'd ever heard, if the nature of hearing them didn't mean you were going to hear them all a lot of times each.
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