I read the army has changed with improving welfar for the recruits. Like last time got log PT n rifle PT but is it true got banned because parents complain?Originally posted by Short Ninja:I didint tekan soldiers when I was active, I trained them.I would give my company push ups by the hundreds dropping to the ground and doing it with them so that way they cant grumble about my fitness or call me a sadist.but the one my men feared most was the silence treatment.Being sent to my office by the platoon Sgts is pure mental torture.The soldier had to stand at sedia position and not move until I finished my admin work before the long weekend which usually take hours of course and if you move then your weekend is burned!.For those of you who kena this treatment in the 80s,you know it only came from me.
Originally posted by monoslayer:recruits! everything off!
It also depend on the behaviour of the recruit.Originally posted by krakadu:tekanning is against human rights!!! one day all recruits should have a mutiny n protest against such inhumanities!
WTFOriginally posted by VECL1:hi all,
was reading all the interesting threads here and they sure bring back lots of memories abt my army days...btw my unit already stand down long ago. i got interested in this forum cause i was trying to find new info abt SAF since my son, will be going into army in abt 2 years time.
now abt tekanning, i remember a very funny tekan session my platoon went thru' during BMT. we didn't do a good job cleaning the cook house and our cpl decided to tekan us but we were all giggling due to the silly nature of it...
we were ordered to fall in all the ants running around one of the table, the requirement was, no ants must be killed. we got to fall in the ants into 3 rolls and move them thru' a few marching orders shouted out by our cpl.
at the end of it all, our cpl inspected the ants and any dead ones, we've to take out a piece of paper and write a condolence letter to the ant's 'parents' to explain abt their 'son' death in the SAF and appologize to the 'parents'.