Damn them liberals. This is how it works in the Sainik schools and military academies. If you can't take it, join a ficking fashion school or something. Indian army is an extremely disciplined army and this is the reason for it. What a sissy.
I understand what you are saying and how being able to endure difficulty builds up a mental and physical will to endure.
But then, I am afraid you may not have got the horrors of the clip, if I may say so.
I wonder if physical punishment of the third degree is essential to inculcate discipline; and that should not happens in Military academies. It ruins self respect and can maim people for life!
Command is earned through respect and not through orders and legal laws.
And all those under training are to command their troops and people follow leaders and even lay down their lives because of respect and faith in their leaders. And not through fear!
If I may explain, I have personally gone through four years of military training. Indeed, there are very difficult, physical and mental punishment that I had to endure, but I can say this openly, that I or anyone in my time, was never physically hit!
And we had a Honour Code actually in vogue and practised. Not theoretical as it is today!
It is this riff raff, who now join military academies, who bring in their criminal culture, into the academies.
It is such people who have no compassion and fail to bring up the camaraderie amongst the troops that is essential to fight wars.
They are merely BULLIES.
It is these chaps when they become officers are punch drunk with power and knowing fully well that the junior cannot retort, misuse their position and create the situation where there is 'fragging'.
It is these chaps who are ambitious and so they ride the shoulder of their men for personal gains and career improvement by doing anything their seniors want without a thought for the welfare of their command and the troops!
These are the chaps who learn only to be selfish sods.
It is not to say that all who are joining these days are riff raff.
When I was a Battalion Commander at one of these Cadet academies, I read them the riot act and even had one boy withdrawn from the academy.
To maim or break a person's self respect is not the aim of inculcating discipline. It, as far as the military is concerned, is to inculcate the ability to obey a legal command, even if it is not to one's liking (attacking in war would not be to one's liking since it could mean dying) and work as a team (and that will save one from dying wantonly because all are operating and have learnt to obey a legal command).
I think Gen Wavell said that Discipline is subjugating the self for the Good of a Team.
