Well, one reason would be that todays military is plagued with street gang thugs and the inability to properly 'break down' these individuals. Stern words won't work against these kids.
I hear you on that. I enlisted and went to basic training at 29 and proceeded to smoke all the females except for 2 in PT, how pathetic. We had 18 year old females that couldn't do a damn proper push up or sit up.