The defense secretary can restore the practice of the drilling sergeant “shark attack”

The Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, plans to reverse the ban on “shark attack”, the secular aggressive practice used by drilling sergeants to form American army recruits in basic training.

The practice was generally used at the start of the training by grouping several drilling sergeants and screaming on their faces at the top of their lungs.

“It starts with basic training. It starts in our military academies,” said Hegseth Thursday during an appearance on “The Will Cain Show”.

“We are going back to the point. The drilling sergeants will be drilling sergeants with knife hands that guarantee, which maintain good order and good discipline and will form great recruits that will make major training courses. Just as we need military officers with the same discipline and the same context.

Hegseth promises to restore the mentality of warriors and increase the standards of military transformation sweeping

The American army drilling sergeants assigned to Foxtrot 1st battalion 34th Infantry Regiment participate in the “stadium of fear” or in the fear of the discipline process, while the trainees arrive on the first day of the basic formation in combat on June 12, 2017, in Fort Jackson, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC, SC (Photo of the American army by the SGT. Philip MCTAGGART / OUT)

The army has started to remove the attacks on sharks in recent years and has greatly ended it in 2020. It has been replaced by the “first 100 meters”, a more structured training exercise designed to build camaraderie and encourage teamwork under stress.

“” The first 100 meters “is the first exhibition of an American army intern to their basic training (BCT), drilling sergeants and their first opportunity to start their transformation as members of the more powerful and fatal combat force of the world”, the American Center for the Initial Military Training was published on Facebook. “” The first 100 meters “, a tribute to their line of closing of the last 100 meters of the fight, joined teamwork in a competition that presents mental and physical challenges on the day of their arrival at their basic training company.”

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The act of replacement of the shark attack was born from deliberations at the infantry school of the army in Fort Benning, in Georgia. The senior leaders thought that the practice was obsolete but stressed at the time that the army should not slowly despite the absence of the trainees in action.

The supporters of the shark attack declared that he helped the trainees to move from civil life to military life and prepare them for the chaotic environment that some will live on the battlefield.

“The secretary is very happy to undergo a basic training,” the press secretary of the Ministry of Defense, Kingsley Wilson said on Thursday. “Again, I can confirm that he will look at the basic formation and make sure that the standards are where they should be.

“We want our fighters to be strong, and it starts in basic training, and we want to make sure that we are really going to, once again, at the base. And the shark attacks will be something he plans to reintegrate.”

Sgts. 1st class Alec Donahoe and Todd Owen, drilling sergeants with the Mississippi National Guard recruitment and retention, motivate a warrior in the recruit program during a “shark attack” on October 7, 2017. (Photo of the American National Guard by the staff sergeant. Scott Tynes)

An army unit recently reversed a prohibition of “launching berries”, another traditional practice in which drilling sergeants overthrow the berths and mattresses, walls, garbage cans, bins and other articles in the bays where the trainees enrolled sleep, forcing them to clean the area.

A memo of July 31 of Colonel Christopher JC Hallows, commander of the 197th Infantry BrigadeWho forms infantry soldiers, announced that the launch of the bay was “strictly prohibited”.

“The drilling sergeants will not” throw “the bay to include the reversal of the mattresses, the overthrow of lockers with walls, the personal objects or equipment of the button trainees and / or damage”, indicates the service note. “The drilling sergeants will not use the” launch “bay for any reason to include corrective action methods.”

Sunday, Hallows published another service note reversing the ban.

Hegseth noted on Thursday that the launch of the bay and the shark attack have been part of the basic formation for decades.

US Army Drill SGT. 1st class that Autheman assigned to the 1st battalion of the 1st battalion 34th Infantry Regiment participates in the “attack of sharks” or in the stage of fear of the discipline process. (Photo of the American army by SPC. Darius Davis)

“This is the basic thing that anyone who has followed any form of basic training for decades included as a recruit, you were going into a crucible,” he said. “You were going to be forged. You were going to be challenged. You must be afraid, nervous and anxious.

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“And by going through this, you are going to be forged an American warrior. A shark attack is when the drilling sergeants surround a particular enrollment, right?” He added. “Create a stressful situation that they must understand how to manage. The bed throwing a barracks inside a barracks after having a long day to make the card on the range or walking on patrol – these are basic stuff. It’s not beyond what has been done. This is a restoration.”