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| | Recruit Abuse: A Culture of Competing Values © (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | During my time as Regimental Chaplain from 1999 to 2001, there was systemic Drill Instructor abuse of Recruits in one battalion. |
 | | , Chaplains and Drill Instructors taught 50 hours of values training to Recruits to reinforce “Honor, Courage, and Commitment.” Chaplains delivered five lectures entitled “Ethics, Courage, Commitment, Personal Values, and Group Values.” The reason for the emphasis on ethical training was the apparent lack of good character values on the part of many new Recruits. |
 | | I asked a Drill Instructor, “Why is it that a few Drill Instructor’s abuse Recruits?” He responded, “Sir, it is considered a right of passage to hit a Recruit or abuse a Recruit. |
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