Hi,
Recently my son did his BMT training at Tekong. There was this
over enthusiastic NSF Sgt who goes around punishing recruits for
the slightest mistakes they made and even coughing during fall in
will get you 40 push-ups as punishment.
He usually rotates his victims and catch them for slightest
mistakes made and minimum punishment from him is 40 to 100 push
ups. Once my son was caught for a mistake and told to do 100
push-ups. Despite trying his best to complete the 100 push-ups, he
was accused for not trying and given another punishment which is
lifting the rifle over his head. Already so tired from doing the
push-ups, he now lifted his rifle overhead and despite that was
accused again for not trying his best because he bended his arm and
the Sgt punished the entire platoon with more push-ups.
Don't they have check and balance system to make sure that all
trainings are contained within certain set perimeters instead of
whims and fancy of individual Sgts.
Matthew,
It is all part of the training. There is reason why instructors
go around punishing, it is part of the training to get them
into shape and part of the getting them use to stress and push
their limit.
What system you want - you want sgt to say - recurit today we
need to do 400 push-up in total - let us plan nicely, divide
them in to 8 set of 50 push up, so you don't stress or tired
out.
This will not train them for war time.
They may look to you like enthusiastic NSF Sgt who goes around
punishing recruits, but they are training them combat stress. Human
are like that - you ask them nicely to push themselves - they will
not. Only with the excuse of punish and force it , then they will
push. Human nature.
