re: #92 oaktree

If you want an interesting comparison of portrayals of drill instructers in the USMC there’s Sgt Hartmann in FMJ (1987), and then find a 1957 film “The D.I.” and you get Jack Webb (just the facts recruit) doing the role as well.

If anything it shows how things had loosened up in terms of language and other issues in movies in the space of 30 years.

Got the old school version of Basic in ‘65. A dozen years later I was back at Knox as a civilian, working with the training brigade. The Army really did learn a lot from Viet Nam, and had vastly improved the process. Then the civilian leadership went braindead and played MacNamara/LBJ all over again.