I am so goddamn sick and tired of the need to punish people in our culture.

[JonLP24]

38. As someone who went to basic training the comparison fits but for different reasons

Its the behavior of the classmates showing up from you "battle buddies" as most of these guys/gals joined right after high school so there is a lot of adolescent teen behavior -- the rumor mills, cliques, or pranks etc. People would call me over to their bed and when I arrive they're showing me their "stuff", I just felt way too grown up for this despite being only 19 at the time. I really hate the BS rumor mills but add to that is when you make a mistake the rest of the unit hates you because everybody is doing push-ups. The drill instructors (depending on which ones, the guy from the Bowflex commercial was a real jerk, threw coffee on someone the unit after us) didn't bother me nearly as much the people behind me or next to me in formations.

On edit -- one aspect of what you say compares very well to the regular Army because the asschewings were worse from someone coming back from an asschewing, particularly for being chewed out for someone's mistake they made under them (Though it could have nothing to do with them like DUI on a weekend)