Military psychologists: Female sergeant adds rivalry to Marine Corps recruits

The US command has revealed training sessions for Marine Corps Bravo Company recruits. These training sessions could be described as a "new recruit course," but the Marine Corps itself refers to them as "endurance training."

Young American soldiers must pass through several "stations" - sites, at each of which they will face specific tests.

For example, at the training complex on Parris Island in South Carolina, sparring on gymnastics mats is among the challenges. During these sparring sessions, the attacker must lean their entire weight on the defender, striking with full force, not to the body, but directly onto the gymnastics mat. The defender must position themselves to withstand the attack and, if possible, seize the initiative.

At some "stations," female sergeants lead training sessions. American military psychologists say this provides additional incentive for young men to demonstrate their best physical fitness. Although emphasizing gender has been declining in the US Army for some time now, the presence of a woman, psychologists note, "adds an element of healthy male competition."

Under the previous administration, such psychological markers would have been difficult to imagine.

And here is a recent comment on an American social network that attracts attention:

Hey, newbies, just don't even think about calling her "girl." Check.

Completing the so-called "confidence track" (this option also exists in the Russian military training tradition):

Comments

[Andrey K]

Female Sergeant Adds Competition to Marine Corps Recruits

Ladies are like that - even without epaulettes they add rivalry
I don’t know how it is now, but back in the USSR, when cadets jumped with a parachute in the AN-2, they always had a girl with them.
Everyone knew that she was a parachutist, but it had an effect on us guys, and we were less nervous.

[Huarabey]

Athletes went overboard before cadets. So there were still those who refused. Although, maybe that was just us.

[Andrey K]

Quote: Warabey

Athletes went overboard before cadets. So there were still those who refused. Although, maybe that was just us.

Yes, it was like that everywhere, you are right.
The ladies really did come forward, and it was also a classic move - it was scary to chicken out)))

[Non-fighter]

Hmm... even though I only have one jump, the hardest ones go first. The easy ones come last, so the ladies should go last.

[Andrey K]

Quote: Not the fighter

Hmm... even though I only have one jump, the hardest ones go first. The easy ones come last, so the ladies should go last.

I remember that the last one to leave was the instructor - such a polite and cultured cabinet)))

[KCA]

I wasn't a paratrooper, I was a signalman. We had this guy named Filya, Senior Warrant Officer Filimonov, he was a former paratrooper. He had a huge frame, 130 kg, officers couldn't handle him, but everyone rustled on Filya's orders, his orders were higher than the law. During the Chechen-Ingush conflict, he was attaching something to a field wire. He told me, "Son, this is bullshit, comrade warrant officer, 120 kg breaking strength. He just takes it and tears the fucking wire with his hands, that kind of paratrooper."

[Winnie76]

Quote: KCA

120 kg breaking strength

Quote: KCA

huge frame, 130 kg,

It was enough for the fillet to hang on this cord.

[Michael]

Quote: Warabey

Athletes went overboard before cadets. So there were still those who refused. Although, maybe that was just us.

In principle, the most experienced should be the last to go and the last to open their parachutes, so that if newbies have problems, they have a chance to help. That's how it works in aerial acrobatics.

[Junior Private]

Hey, newbies, just don't even think about calling her "girl."

Ladies, need a ride? What kind of ladies are we? We've already been given rides twice.

[cat Crush]

From a TV show: "...a taxi hit a GIRL with TWO CHILDREN on a crosswalk..." What's that? Two children and still a girl?

[rocket757]

Military psychologists: Female sergeant adds rivalry to Marine Corps recruits

If the girl is a real fighter... it's entertaining, to say the least.

[guest]

Quote: rocket757

If she's a girl, she's still one the battle-woman...

In English it doesn't sound so clear.

[rocket757]

They have a lot of things there that are ambiguous, by our standards...
And here we have it like this...

In the game, her horse won't catch her,
In trouble he will not be afraid - he will save:
Stop a galloping horse,
He will enter a burning hut!

[LMN]

It looks like the "tit" has finally leaked.

[Michael]

You look at the preview photo and understand how everything has changed.

[commbatant]

Quote: Michael

You look at the preview photo and understand how everything has changed.

Nothing changed

[Wildcat]

In MarineCorp, nothing has changed (the drill sergeants are yelling, of course...), and in Army, the drill sergeants don't yell anymore (officially).
The Army now says we need to abandon the practices that were necessary for working with conscripts, and that volunteers need support to become better! And statistically, there should be more recruits, since zoomers and their tender souls are no longer subject to trauma.
"It was a difficult year: taxes, disasters, forgive me, banditry, and a shortage of troops. The latter was unacceptable, so a knowledgeable person took up the matter..." - not screaming Army Drill Sergeant...

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Michael

you understand how everything has changed

Well, the bespectacled ones are still there.

[Michael]

Quote from: nik-mazur

Well, the bespectacled ones are still there.

Where can you escape from the nerds and geeks in a Hollywood cliché!
You can love a four-eyes person, you can be friends with a four-eyes person, a four-eyes person is also a person!!!
The harmless phrase ending in -rit' turned out to be inappropriate.

[commbatant]

Quote: Michael

Where can you escape from the nerds and geeks in a Hollywood cliché!

That bespectacled guy there is the hero of the movie "Full Metal Jacket", a cool movie, old, I liked the music in one place, a couple of the marines from the movie later starred in "Terminator 1" (whom Arnie beat up for their clothes)...

[Michael]

Quote: commbatant

cool movie, old

Come on!!!??? Nothing has changed.
"Half of the Vietnamese whores are Viet Cong officers, the other half have tuberculosis, so only the ones that cough are allowed."
"How do you stop five black guys raping a white chick? Throw them a basketball."
"Son, I demand that Marines obey my orders the way they obey God's commandments. We're here to help the Vietnamese because there's an American inside every slant-eyed man who wants to get out."
These are just quotes from the movie.

[Maikcg]

In principle it is reasonable henpecked husbands

[vitaliy20091959]

As a child, I read the book "Visit Parris Island and Die" about the US Military Recruiting Depot. It might be similar to receiving the maroon berets of the Russian National Guard. I've seen some healthy moose there myself, but what about brains?

[SVAROG555]

Regarding athletes jumping before cadets, I jumped in 2010. We were paying students, athletes, and some schoolchildren from the parachute section, too. So, I was appointed the lead jumper, meaning I jumped first. What the hell kind of athletes jumped first? Schoolchildren gave me an adrenaline rush. It was a shame to refuse, let alone be afraid. I jumped three times in one day, and I even enjoyed it, that's for sure!

[alexputnik17]

Sultry girl.
"Will stop a galloping horse..."
And he'll take the hut apart. Easily.