This video showed up in my Youtube recommendations today, and IMO is quite good coverage of what early military education looks like, which yes, really strikes me as obviously extremely cult-like:
(The title and thumbnail is more clickbaity than the actual video, which has a lot of really great footage and mostly measured analysis of what’s going on in these bootcamps)
Yeah, my sense is long term service is really mostly like working at a large corporation, but early boot camp experiences are very cult like.
Also plausible this changed over the years.
Also, I do have to point out that some cultishness really is necessary in order to do the job of maintaining an effective military.
This video showed up in my Youtube recommendations today, and IMO is quite good coverage of what early military education looks like, which yes, really strikes me as obviously extremely cult-like:
(The title and thumbnail is more clickbaity than the actual video, which has a lot of really great footage and mostly measured analysis of what’s going on in these bootcamps)
We need a video from MAPLE to compare. :D