What happens if you hit a drill sergeant

The US Army has suspended a drill sergeant amid its investigation into an alleged assault, Insider has learned. In a video posted on Twitter, a service member makes a disparaging remark and walks away from what appears to be a group of recruits. A service member in a neon drill sergeant vest confronts the service member who made the remark and a physical altercation follows.

A Fort Benning spokesman said the installation was "aware" of the "recent" incident, which is being investigated by military police and the brigade command.

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Drill sergeants are loyal to their own, so expect them to join in swinging — even if they clearly have the fight won. The fool that initiates a fight is going to jail and is getting swiftly kicked out with a dishonorable discharge — no ifs, ands, or buts. No one will back up the scumbag. Keep very much in mind — these instructors will never lose their military bearing. Remember, though, they have to get all their recruits trained in combat, which means stuff like using rifles, grenades, keeping fit, being neat, teamwork, and other necessary skills for going into battle.

He lost it and went up to the instructor as though he was going to hit him. Luckily for him, one of his mates came up and pushed him away before he could hit the instructor.

He was lucky. The last thing you want to do is to hit your instructor. He could, though, if he wanted to. Drill sergeants go through rigorous basic training for weeks because they will have to train their recruits in turn and they have to give a good example. Still, if you do punch your drill sergeant in the face, the consequences of that are worse than if he just punched you back. Initiating a fight with your instructor will get you jailed and court-martialed.

The court-martial will not acquit you because there will be credible witnesses who will testify that you initiated a fight without provocation.

Being yelled at is not provocation, my friend. Watching a recruit open their throat and try to take a whole canteen like it's a beer shotgun is the like watching someone stand to be waterboarded. It did not look fun. Then, when the bizarre punishments happen to you, those same people become awful and absurd. There are few greater absurd punishments than watching a platoon scrub a floor with a wet mattress on a Sunday.

Until those times, you will run in circles around your platoon or flight as it marches, you will do push-ups until you have to roll your body over and can only get up with assistance, and you will do so many mountain climbers, it creates a defensive fire position for every single person in your unit, so they don't have to dig. If you read the previous four entries on this list, imagine having a few more weeks of opportunity to experience them all again.

For the civilians of the world out there, recycling means moving a basic trainee into a previous week of training, forcing the recruit to go back and re-do the weeks of training he or she already did, and extending basic training by that long. No one wants to be in basic training for longer than necessary. It's summer camp for the power bottom crowd. For you.