You learn to have a love/hate relationship with any military group, and DropTacs're no different. Conscription is supposed to be violent; the whole point is to put up resistance. Scratch, bite, aim for the groin and kick. Hard.
If being ripped from your family doesn't activate some fight or flight responses...then they don't want you. They want tenacity. They don't want complacency and assent. They've got andies for that.
I don't know. Maybe I'm just old school. But I've seen the shit they pass off for recruits these days and it's sickening. You sit in the flight hold with 'em and you can smell the fear. You can see uncertainty on the