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The Winnebago Tribe wants their boys back. The U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries wants to send them. ... Pratt’s high regard for military discipline dominated all aspects of the school’s ...
The agōgē was divided into three age categories: the paides (about ages 7–14), paidiskoi (ages 15–19), and the hēbōntes (ages 20–29). [4] The boys were further subdivided into groups called agelai (singular agelē, meaning "pack"), with whom they would sleep, and were led by an older boy (eirēn) who Plutarch claims was chosen by the boys themselves.
Fagging was sometimes associated with both consensual sexual service and sexual abuse. [4]: 215–244 [5] Christopher Tyerman, writing about the history of Harrow School, stated that in some situations, fagging could either encourage or conceal sexual activity between students, and that, at Harrow, fagging began to decline around the same time as the school started actively discouraging ...
Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщина, lit. 'reign of old-timers', Russian pronunciation: [dʲɪdɐˈfɕːinə]) is the informal practice of hazing and abuse of junior conscripts historically in the Soviet Armed Forces and today in the Russian Armed Forces, Internal troops, and to a much lesser extent FSB, Border Guards, as well as in other armed forces and special services of former ...
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A key difference between boys and adults was their attitude towards slavery: in general, boys on both sides had neutral feelings towards slavery. [1] Thus, few were motivated to fight for or against it. [1] The most popular reason boys joined the military was to escape farm work or an abusive family life. [6] (In 1860 the population of the ...
The Army is also producing a series of videos to get troops to think about moral injury before they are sent into battle. In four of these 30-minute videos, to be completed later this spring, combat veterans talk about their experiences and how they dealt with the psychological damage, said Lt. Col. Stephen W. Austin, an Army chaplain with the ...