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I've experienced mild hazing and I still wouldn't trade my military service for anything. I don't condone hazing but except for egregious examples people shrug it off and move on. No, not everyone has the same positive experience of anything, but the hazing issue is smaller than you'd think.

I'm ready for you to not understand this, civilians usually do not.

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Yeah during my eight years, hazing was mostly phased out by then. Some traditions still exist, but they’re quite heavily controlled.

Either way, some things do happen occasionally, and this is something most people shrug off.

That’s the other problem as well though; civilians will never, truly understand the feeling we have from the military lifestyle. It’s why a lot of veterans gravitate towards eachother.

>That’s the other problem as well though; civilians will never, truly understand the feeling we have from the military lifestyle. It’s why a lot of veterans gravitate towards eachother.

This is exactly what I hear from people in cults.

> I'm ready for you to not understand this, civilians usually do not.

Mmmmm.

>I'm ready for you to not understand this, civilians usually do not.

This is also what I hear from people in cults.