Spade Cooley
Moderator
I went through a police academy where there was stress but the stress was directed with a purpose in mind. Years later I visited the same police academy and noticed a lot of changes. It was more like a Marine Corps. Boot Camp, Recruits were knocking on the door and the D I within was saying, "I can't hear you." There was a lot of yelling and screaming around the academy without much thought to directed stress or training the men to think on their feet.
The other day I saw films on Marine Corp. Boot Camp. There were DIs running around screaming constantly looking like a bunch of idiots. You could not even tell what the were yelling. in my opinion this type of supervision accomplishes nothing. You want leadership, obediace to orders, and a foot soldier who can think on his feet, not some scarred rabbit. I was in the Army and don't remember anything comming close to the scream fest I heard in the USMC. These guys didn't learn a thing from what I saw. I guess they were trying to turn them into warriors or killers but I couldn't tell it .
Now they are in Iraq trying to police the streets like a municapal police Dept. This in not the nature of a soldier and they are not trained for it. We could do a lot better in trainning both groups.
The other day I saw films on Marine Corp. Boot Camp. There were DIs running around screaming constantly looking like a bunch of idiots. You could not even tell what the were yelling. in my opinion this type of supervision accomplishes nothing. You want leadership, obediace to orders, and a foot soldier who can think on his feet, not some scarred rabbit. I was in the Army and don't remember anything comming close to the scream fest I heard in the USMC. These guys didn't learn a thing from what I saw. I guess they were trying to turn them into warriors or killers but I couldn't tell it .
Now they are in Iraq trying to police the streets like a municapal police Dept. This in not the nature of a soldier and they are not trained for it. We could do a lot better in trainning both groups.