My personal favorite was the pink belly. New privates always tend to get overly cocky and knowitall, so we would wait until they participated in some hazing type event, (by participating in an event, you are agreeing that you are also open to being the victim) the next day, we would grab them coming out of the shower, hogtie them, then each member of the unit would slap the belly of the victim once with an open hand.. the result of this activity gives the hazing its name.. hence pink belly. Then we would drag the guy, stark naked, into one of the common areas and leave. 30 minutes later, if no one had rescued them, we would come and set them free. This has a very humbling effect.. in fact we preferred this to the infamous blanket party... and before you ask, yes I have had more than one pink belly. After the first time, you knew, just relax and let it happen, fighting only makes things worse.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Hazing, like many things in the military, only serves to prove that there is a threshold of learning when the suck is involved.
After a certain period of time, suffering is pointless and you gain nothing from it. "Realism" and "training value" be damned.
2 weeks of freezing / starving is 10 days of stupid unless you're doing SERE.
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Sounds to me you are not talking about hazing so much as extreme training. Something I learned early on in my military career is that most extreme training is designed not so much for the sake of punishing the soldier, as it is to show the soldier that what the human body and mind are capable of is usually a great deal greater than the individual thinks. Ranger school taught me just how much abuse a body can take, while IMLC taught me that I can think clearly under a great deal of stress and distraction.