Well stress tolerance can be trained via other ways also. Military immersions, pressure and see who cracks is one way. There is other ways. Just because someone hasn't gone through military training doesn't mean they aren't as thought mentally. They might have learned same toughness via other ways. Military way is efficient in being fast and capable of training lot of people at one go. However it can also be destructive to the individuals. Since not only might someone start crack and flunk out, the system might not pick up on the starting cracking early enough (though that is kinda supposed to be the idea) meaning by the time the person is noticed to crack, not only is it momentary crack. Permanent psychological harm might have happened. Since frankly with hundreds recruits in row being pressured it is blunt instrument, unless trainers have very well their feelers out to pull out the people in time. Theoretically ofcourse the plan is "we pick out the people in risk of harm, before permanent harm happens". That plan sometimes doesn't work out and in this case one is kinda intentionally pushing them to cracking knowingly, so one bears responsibility. Instead of someone just by happenstance ending up in situation leading to psychological harm. That is also why the psych evaluations he mentioned are a thing. As conscript in Finland, everyone had to take psych eval (though probably way less thorough than that one he mentioned for volunteer officer training). The idea is identify the people who absolutely shouldn't be subjected to this pressure cooking, since we know we are actively trying to crack people and these people would have permanent crack based on their psych profile. Also just because someone cracked in military training doesn't mean one couldn't overtime developed fortitude. There military training is pretty much a shock and awe course due to military wanting fast training results and large training numbers. Plus one must remember *this is being applied to 18 year olds* . Who frankly are still in part juveniles just based on brain development. So someone who cracks in military at 18, might say at 25 have been the most cold and calm person ever. They just hadn't yet completed their neural development. Atleast PMMA does mental evaluations and is volunteer roll in, thus kinda you ought to know going in "it's reserve military academy, you don't like the sound of that other career paths exist". Some for example some people just can never adjust to the strict military discipline culture, even if otherwise say as medical personnel can handle life and death pressures, can as catastrophe rescue personnel handle days on end in mud, not enough food and sleep. They can just never get over the "you have to follow orders, even silly orders from a silly person, just due to it being the orders from person with assigned authority". Problem with authority and so on. Obviously optimally military never plans to put silly person in authority, but well as often even best laid plans rarely survive contact with reality.

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Korek

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That must be REALLY fascinating to have been involved in computers back in the 60's! Did you work with the giant mainframes?

Yes

There will be more next time. 😊

@@ChiefMAKOi Aye nice 1 Chief Makoi those in depth stripdowns of fuel systems gensets and mains are always enlightening.

Nowadays those incidents are isolated cases. It's a matter of individual attitude of the cadets and those were formed at home while they were growing up. Long before they ever entered PMMA. The academy terminates cadets who are found guilty and in extreme cases, criminal cases are filed.

@@ChiefMAKOi Thank you, sir.

I had a few professors who were USMMA Graduates.

Don Bosco Technical Institute Makati graduate , 1962😀. Visited the machine shop and saw my etched initials in the tools drawer assigned to me 64 years ago. Saw the old shaper machine colored green, still being used.

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It's PMA, the military academy. Yes, it's true. PMMA also does this although not as strict in enforcing it as PMA.

Noted. Thanks for the feedback.