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The military doesnt "brainwash" anyone. Brainwashing involvesusing such novelties as food/sleep deprivation to make people mentally subserviant and then programs them for whatever via intense peer-pressure and negative re-enforcment (getting you to hate your old life).
What the military does is excersise you into the ground, force you to think of the unit before yourself and shove a ton of food down your throat to keep you going. Yes, there's a TON of psychological pressure via POSITIVE re-enforcment (once you toughen up)and there is a lot of re-structuring of habits, but that's in NO WAY brainwasing.
Ask someone that's actually in the service: these guys arent the mindless zombies depicted in movies: they gripe, have opinions, and in hundreds of cases a year, wash out during training or after.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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