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1) Torture= Being humiliated in your underwear by having to form a human pyramid.
2) Marine Corps Recruit Training= Having to go outside at 2 in the morning in your underwear and forced to PT in a sandbox for a half hour, simply because the DI wants to have some fun.
1) Torture= Sleep Deprevation, Food Deprevation, Dogs barking at them, Koran flushed down the toilet, female soldier humiliating them
2) Marine Corps Recruit Trainin= Food depravation, sleep depravation, 4 grown men barking at you all the time, foot locker thrown out the window, Drill Instructors humiliating you, having to scrub brush the deck with your toothbrush.
1) Torture= Can't call a lawyer, can't contact a loved one, hate the American government, but food, shelter, and medical care are covered. Allowed to worship as they want.
2) Marine Corps Recruit Training= Can't make phone calls home, can't have visitors, can't talk to anyone, sometimes can't go to worship service, hate the Drill Instructors, but food, shelter, and medical care are covered.
1) Torture= Sometimes they die
2) Marine Corps Recruit Training= Ditto
There certainly was some tortuous elements to recruit training. Take Parris Island: recruits are not allowed to remove biting sand fleas from their bodies without suffering stiff consequences. Take San Diego: humping up what Drill Instructors call hills (but a civilian would call a mountain like The Reaper) if a recruit is slow, they get pushed/hit and if they injure a lower extremity like an ankle/foot the DI's will not let them stop and seek treatment from a Corpsmen.
Good times, but if the public had video of the second-to-second interactions between recruit and Drill Instructor… there would be controversy. That has happened before when incidents like recruits drowning during swim qualifications or when my Kill Hat blinded a Whiskey Pig with the Whiskey Locker keys.