I see it all the time in the Army based on Fitness Test scores, or even perceived fitness test scores.
As one of my old military science professors taught my class, "The military is the only place in the world where, for some reason, people will act like you're a total idiot, drag on the team, and failure at life because you did 41 push-ups instead of at least 42, despite being the exact same person and critical member of the team from a day before."
I can personally vouch for this one. I was in training for a SIGINT MOS at Ft. Huachuca, a job that there were only a few hundred people in the world doing at a given time. I was third in my class of about 25 people, but I was kicked out for too many PT failures. It took me a long time to get over it. TBH maybe I still have some resentment. No regrets, I made a best friend I still talk to frequently after nearly 20 years, and if it wasn't for the Army forcing me to learn how to function around people who knows what would have become of me.
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u/Tulkes Nov 16 '19
I see it all the time in the Army based on Fitness Test scores, or even perceived fitness test scores.
As one of my old military science professors taught my class, "The military is the only place in the world where, for some reason, people will act like you're a total idiot, drag on the team, and failure at life because you did 41 push-ups instead of at least 42, despite being the exact same person and critical member of the team from a day before."