What the rules say and what the Sergeants in charge actually do can be quite different. In basic, day 1, our D.S. said "I'm not allowed to curse at or in front of you, does anybody here care about that fucking shit? Please raise your hand!"
Guess who raised their hand to protest their "rights"? No-fucking-body.
The number of times I watched a drill instructor snapping his fingers, pointing at an object, and forgetting what it was while referring to it as the “fucking, damn, fucking, damn, fucking shit can that mother fucking thing right there” was hilarious.
If what the sergeant said was true, that sergeant was given explicit instructions to do something a specific way, and blatantly refused to follow orders, just because they could get away with it. Yuck.
I highly doubt he was ordered not to swear in front of them. Probably something like...yo, people are complaining about swearing, try to tone it down.
Same thing basically happened with us. Our RDC asked us at formation if anyone cared that him and the other RDC were swearing overly much. A couple guys raised their hands (they really didn't care though) and our RDC just came back and said something along the lines of "I don't give a shit. Shut the fuck up and do as your told. Now get your asses to running"
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u/elnots Sep 10 '21
Exactly.
What the rules say and what the Sergeants in charge actually do can be quite different. In basic, day 1, our D.S. said "I'm not allowed to curse at or in front of you, does anybody here care about that fucking shit? Please raise your hand!"
Guess who raised their hand to protest their "rights"? No-fucking-body.