Now, are those rules mandatory for teaching purposes, or suggestive? They must have been the latter, for nothing I experienced would lead me to believe that there was only a certain amount of pushups one could do, or that there was a sleeping policy (at least in the field, for sure). Maybe this is because my platoon and it's instructors didn't seem to care about these rules. Our warrant came out one night, took us out onto the parade square at around 21:00 and threatened us with going for a run for conduct. Word got to the higher ups and this was dismissed. So, I can definitely see where you are coming from, the more I think about it. And yes, I recall having a conversation with a section commander regarding the 13 km march, and a lot of disappointed (I won't lie, there were a lot of happy faces too) faces when it was determined to be cancelled. In some ways I guess it has changed, in others, it hasn't. But as noted, I only have a year under my belt, so will stop making assumptions based on my platoon world.