Bootcamp is designed to emulate combat stress to teach that group reliance rather than individual resolve is a more effective way to ensure the group achieves i

Bootcamp is designed to emulate combat stress to teach that group reliance rather than individual resolve is a more effective way to ensure the group achieves its goal. You aren't supposed to live every day like you are in combat. The body can only take so much stress. This isn't even done in the Army/Marines. However, when the shit hits the fan, your advice will do nothing but get you, and more importantly, the people relying on you, killed. The reason you do not analyze/question orders is multi-fold, and includes: 1. You are in a poorer position than the person giving the order to understand the overall situation. (Note, this is also why western armies tend to push responsibility down to battlefield commanders where possible.) 2. Acting decisively with speed and momentum is more important than making the "correct" move. 3. (Poorly understood by civilians) Your life continuing may not be part of the objective of "success". In essence - sometimes leaders need to sacrifice good people in order to ensure the survival of the group, or the completion of an important objective that ensures the larger group is not defeated. For example: you may encounter a significant force that you need to withdraw from. This withdraw may be impossible unless someone with a machine gun covers it from a high point. Recovering this person following the withdrawal may be difficult or need impossible. You might happen to be that person. While this sucks for you, your inaction will result in 30 people dying instead of just 1-2. That's the call combat leaders make. Nothing in civilian life compares.