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Old 09-11-2012, 04:25 AM
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Vale
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an analogy that helped me.

2 drill instructors,one mean and nasty.....one friendly and 'helpful'.
Mean one made his trainees do all sorts of dreadful things to get them
ready for what lay ahead-----while the "Cool" drill instructor went through
the motions---was everybody's 'pal'.......and was very popular and liked.

The trainees of the 'mean' one learned their hard lessons well.Most came home
and 40 years later were bouncing their granchildren on their knees after long
and happy lives.

Trainees of the "cool" DI got slaughtered----and those that did return carried
bitter resentments into old age for being sent into
hell inadequately prepared.

The rhetorical question is obviously

"which is the better drill instructor"?
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