Towards_the_gap
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I, knock on wood repeatedly, have never YET had an ND. I put this down to a number of factors:
A) Keeping a healthy respect for weapons (and being brought up amongst them helped too);
B) Professional pride - having an ND would be a huge slight on my basic soldiering skills, and I would die of embarrassment;
and finally, and perhaps most importantly:
C) Being thrashed within an inch of my life, repeatedly, for fellow coursemates ND'ing, in both basic training and in the field army. Bearing in mind this was in the British Army, so the calibre of beasting would probably be illegal here in Canada. And yet was nothing cruel, just HARD HARD HARD PT, the kind where you bleed from your eyeballs. I can honestly say I had never seen anyone charged for an ND in the brits, they just sweated profusely, burned a TON of calories, and most likely threw up once or twice.
Is there a place for this style of punishment in lieu of charging/administrative discipline? Would it work? More importantly, would it be allowed?
A) Keeping a healthy respect for weapons (and being brought up amongst them helped too);
B) Professional pride - having an ND would be a huge slight on my basic soldiering skills, and I would die of embarrassment;
and finally, and perhaps most importantly:
C) Being thrashed within an inch of my life, repeatedly, for fellow coursemates ND'ing, in both basic training and in the field army. Bearing in mind this was in the British Army, so the calibre of beasting would probably be illegal here in Canada. And yet was nothing cruel, just HARD HARD HARD PT, the kind where you bleed from your eyeballs. I can honestly say I had never seen anyone charged for an ND in the brits, they just sweated profusely, burned a TON of calories, and most likely threw up once or twice.
Is there a place for this style of punishment in lieu of charging/administrative discipline? Would it work? More importantly, would it be allowed?