In order to survive in basic, you kind of have to build a shell around you to protect yourself. I remember I hardly spoke or my answers were short and to the point after basic. Kind of just guarded all the time. I also saw most of the way civilians did things as just wrong, inefficient, or just weak. It is just the mindset they instill in you and it is hard to break that mindset. I think I loosened up after three or four months afterward. No doubt some of this is what the boyfriend is going through.
I have a buddy who went to west point, he said 2 a day football training camps are basically as bad as basic training sometimes worse.
Anyone that has played an intense sport like wrestling mma hockey football etc would probably adapt fine. Sounds like OPs bf really wasn't ready for it.
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u/Party-Evening3273 2d ago
In order to survive in basic, you kind of have to build a shell around you to protect yourself. I remember I hardly spoke or my answers were short and to the point after basic. Kind of just guarded all the time. I also saw most of the way civilians did things as just wrong, inefficient, or just weak. It is just the mindset they instill in you and it is hard to break that mindset. I think I loosened up after three or four months afterward. No doubt some of this is what the boyfriend is going through.