I can tell you of my experience and the experience from what I see in post from legionnaires, the experience is that each generation changes and adapts to technology, tactics, and their personnel. Sure, there is a very common tradition thread that runs from the beginning and all through the generations. Traditions are what make an organization, its history and its culture.
Just today I read an article in Stars and Stripes, a US Military Paper, where a United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel plead guilty at a Courts Martial for conduct unbecoming an Officer, making false statements, and some other charge. The punishment, he will end his career now and retire. The Offense, he was the Battalion Commander for 3rd Recruit Training Battalion at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina. What happened, the LtCol, placed a Senior Drill Instructor , he was a Gunnery Sergeant, I'd say the Legion Eq. is likely a
Sergent-Chef or
Adjudant, back into a training Platoon while he was under investigation for putting Muslim Recruits into the commercial dryers and spinning them a few times. So, this DI, under investigation is administering Intensive training, a form of punishment and motivation to a new Muslim recruit. The new recruit of course faints and the DI (Drill Instructor) gets a little "hands on." The recruit jumps up, runs out the hatch, and swan dives off of the 4th Deck and dies... Big problem here.
They, the press, are making this the modern day Ribbon Creek Incident that happened back in 1956 at Parris Island where a drunk DI took his platoon on a forced night march for punishment and led them through a Creek (River) where 6 recruits drowned.
The discipline is still harsh in the Marine Corps as I am sure it is in the Legion. Physical violence is no longer an acceptable form of discipline in the Marine Corps, guess what, neither was it back then in the 1950s, but hey shite happens and sometimes a good slap is an attention getter.
Lastly, each previous generation berates the new "softer generation." Back in my day...you fill in the blank; however, keep this in mind, tradition and the military are not easily divorced no mater what generation it is past, present, or future. Hope this helps
https://www.stripes.com/news/us/par...rges-linked-to-recruit-death-scandal-1.516394
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