They used to promote guys like this. We are in a downward spiral.
That may have been the case when you were riding with Custer, but it ain't the case now. A funny thing is that my tough as nails retired Gunnery Sargeant brother-in-law and my tough as nails USMC Corporal son happen to agree that you don't abuse the recruits in the manner these guys did. The Corps comes under enough unfair scrutiny from trash like Hairless Reid, Karl Lenin, and despicable Murtha without their d.i.s adding fuel to the fire. The "downward spiral", if it exists, exists in part because people that should know better provide the goddamn fuel.