Today I had an interesting conversation with one of my brothers-in-arms. The conversation was about our raid yesterday. I asked Alexei how he saw it, whether anything had changed, whether we had learned our lesson.
Alexei said he sees positive changes. Our instructors didn’t just start ordering us around with some stupid work. They started actively training us. The cadets, for their part, realizing that we really had a lot of mistakes, tried to study and learn well.
Alexei said he feels grateful that the instructors didn’t just start bullying and ordering us around. Instead, they started giving us more training.
This means that cadets understand why this is happening and that they really do have mistakes that need to be corrected. Cadets understand that it’s not that they are considered animals and want to be burdened with something. No, they want to teach them.
This was one person’s observation. I can’t say for sure how objective it is. But I liked the idea that punishment should take the form of increased workload in class. There is no need to punish for the sake of punishment.
We have a clear goal—after training, we must be able to survive and accomplish the tasks assigned to us. All actions and activities must lead directly to this goal.
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