From: Randall Parker 

Did you happen to catch the show about Navy SEAL training? Now that was
different. They didn't let the cameraman film most of it. But they did get
to watch some parts.

The drill instructors all used megaphones to shout at people 5 feet away
from them. They had automatic rifles full of blanks that they were blasting
away near the recruits in very the first hour and a half of training. The
training started at night the first hour and a half also featured cold
water hoses blasting on the recruits, smoke, and other distractions plus
the automatic weapons fire while they were ordered thru various actions.


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d_n_b{at}swbell.net says...
> To Jeff, Bill L., and anyone else here who has served in the US
> military:
>
> I was watching some some program on TV about basic training (I fergit
> which branch...), and one of the drill instructors affected this
> really strange voice.  He sounded somewhere between Howlin' Wolf,
> Billy-Bob Thornton's character in "Slingblade," and a throat cancer
> victim with one of those mechanical talk box transducers.  An
> interview with the instructor proved that he was also capable of
> speaking in a normal, human voice.
>
> I can't imagine a practical reason for someone to shout instructions
> with such a vocal affectation, but then I've never served in the
> military.  Do any of you have any insight into this behavior? Is it
> just a matter of personal style?
>
> --dnb
>

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