How To Actually Build Discipline - Gen. Stanley McChrystal - #942

I didn't know that you nearly got expelled from West Point. I did. I um I had two problems my first two years at West Point. The first was I wasn't as academically prepared as some students and I didn't have good study habits, so I had a very low grade point average, but that wasn't really what threatened me. I had a discipline problem.

So starting my first summer, I got what they call a slug, and that was for disrespect toward a cadet superior. Uh, they actually called it disapprobation. I had to look up up the word, I didn't know what it meant. And I got that and then a few months later I got caught drinking. Well, I didn't get caught drinking, I got caught drunk.

And so I got in significant trouble for that, and they put you on the area to walk punishment tours. You might have seen that where you walk out on this per it's a a courtyard in the middle of the barracks. and you have your rifle and you walk back and forth for an hour at a time and you are awarded those punishment tours in hours. So like if you get convicted of an offense, you would get a certain number of demerits, a certain number of punishment tours, and then a certain number of months of special confinement. And that meant that when you weren't walking punishment tours or in class or something like that, you were in your room.

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