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The day a guy from my platoon suddenly lost his mind.
This happened in February / 2015, when I just enlisted into Brazilian Marines Corps (aka Fuzileiros Navais) and was under the internship period. During this period you are confined into a military base for 4 months with no contact with the outside world whatsoever.
The first month is the worst one, everyday you will basically do physical exercises and military drills as much as possible while having very little sleep (4 to 2 hours of sleep, some days with no sleep at all), in order to make those who are not fit for being a marine give up.
Just for context. Our platoon was the one with the most amount of drill sergeants who were from special operations groups, and one of them was a recently formed Commandos, called Sgt Henrique.
I can say that he was a really creepy dude, and almost everyone was a bit scared of him (including the other drill sgts).
One night, Sgt Henrique (the drill sgt in charge of our platoon that night) was in a really sadistic mood and decided to punish our platoon for god knows why (a common occurrence) and put everyone to do all sorts of physical exercises on rain during almost the whole night, with no sleep whatsoever.
Well, let's say that night really impacted our platoon mentally, and lots of recruits gave up and asked to go home after that.
The following the day during the morning something really weird happened right after the breakfast, we arrived at our company area and we were in formation waiting the sgt to give us the orders. Then recruit 4213 suddenly started screaming a lot of stuff at the top of his lungs.
"LETS RUN PLATOON!!! LET'S VIBRATE!!! NOOOW!! LET'S GOOO!!"
absolute silence...
Everybody was looking at each other trying to understand what was happening.
SGT Henrique: "WHO IS SAYING THAT? COME HERE NOW!"
The recruit 4213 ran in the direction of the drill sgt screaming really hard.
"RECRUIT MARINE 4213 SERGEANT!! LET'S RUN NOW!! LET'S VIBRATE!!"
I remember that SGT Henrique looked at him with a mix of fear and contempt (I know it's hard to imagine that lol).
Then 4213 grabbed the SGT by the arms while screaming: ''LET'S GO SGT!! NOOOW!!!"
SGT Henrique: "GET YOUR HANDS OUT OF ME!"
"NO SGT!!! I WILL NOT!! WE WILL VIBRATE NOW!! LET'S RUN PLATOOON!!" while shaking him aggressively.
The other drills sgts showed up and grabbed 4213 by the arms and moved him to some room to calm him down.
After that, he was not with our platoon anymore, he was in the same bedroom as the drills sgts if I'm not wrong. Well, the night came and I was hanging around with the other guys when one of the recruits screamed my number: "4262!! Where are you?? SGT Henrique wants to talk with you now!!"
"ME??? WTF DUDE, WHAT I DID??"
"I don't know man, but you better go talk to him fast"
Everybody looked at me as if I was about to be tortured or executed.
So I have gone to his bedroom, thinking about what I did wrong. Knocked on the door and presented myself properly.
"RECRUIT MARINE 4262, ASKING PERMISSION TO ENTER THE ROOM" he abruptly opened the door and got out.
"No need to enter, let me talk something with you in private."
he continued, "Well, as you may have noticed, one of your colleagues had a little problem today.
I asked one of the recruits who were his closest friend, and they told me is you"
I actually was not, but since our platoon was organized in order of height and we were close in height a lot of times I was close to him, so I think someone concluded that we were friends bc of that.
"Well, I need you to do me a favor. Take him to the nursery, I told the nurses about his situation and they are expecting you there. Your friend is looking a bit down, so try to comfort him, ok?"
So I took him to the nursery, he looked really sad. I tried to talk to him a bit while we were waiting to enter. Tried to motivate him, tell that he will return to our platoon soon, that it is just a matter of time and things like that. Sadly, that was not the case.
After some days, SGT Henrique called me again asked me to visit him on the nursery to comfort him and see how he is, so when I was there 4213 told me that he was disconnected from the recruitment process bc of his mental breakdown. He still looked sad but was telling me that next year he will try again and that he will never give up on his dream. Well, after some weeks he was sent home and I never of heard of him anymore, I really hope that he made it in the next year or that he at least found a better a path in life for him.
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This happened in February / 2015, when I just enlisted into Brazilian Marines Corps (aka Fuzileiros Navais) and was under the internship period. During this period you are confined into a military base for 4 months with no contact with the outside world whatsoever.
The first month is the worst one, everyday you will basically do physical exercises and military drills as much as possible while having very little sleep (4 to 2 hours of sleep, some days with no sleep at all), in order to make those who are not fit for being a marine give up.
Just for context. Our platoon was the one with the most amount of drill sergeants who were from special operations groups, and one of them was a recently formed Commandos, called Sgt Henrique.
I can say that he was a really creepy dude, and almost everyone was a bit scared of him (including the other drill sgts).
One night, Sgt Henrique (the drill sgt in charge of our platoon that night) was in a really sadistic mood and decided to punish our platoon for god knows why (a common occurrence) and put everyone to do all sorts of physical exercises on rain during almost the whole night, with no sleep whatsoever.
Well, let's say that night really impacted our platoon mentally, and lots of recruits gave up and asked to go home after that.
The following the day during the morning something really weird happened right after the breakfast, we arrived at our company area and we were in formation waiting the sgt to give us the orders. Then recruit 4213 suddenly started screaming a lot of stuff at the top of his lungs.
"LETS RUN PLATOON!!! LET'S VIBRATE!!! NOOOW!! LET'S GOOO!!"
absolute silence...
Everybody was looking at each other trying to understand what was happening.
SGT Henrique: "WHO IS SAYING THAT? COME HERE NOW!"
The recruit 4213 ran in the direction of the drill sgt screaming really hard.
"RECRUIT MARINE 4213 SERGEANT!! LET'S RUN NOW!! LET'S VIBRATE!!"
I remember that SGT Henrique looked at him with a mix of fear and contempt (I know it's hard to imagine that lol).
Then 4213 grabbed the SGT by the arms while screaming: ''LET'S GO SGT!! NOOOW!!!"
SGT Henrique: "GET YOUR HANDS OUT OF ME!"
"NO SGT!!! I WILL NOT!! WE WILL VIBRATE NOW!! LET'S RUN PLATOOON!!" while shaking him aggressively.
The other drills sgts showed up and grabbed 4213 by the arms and moved him to some room to calm him down.
After that, he was not with our platoon anymore, he was in the same bedroom as the drills sgts if I'm not wrong. Well, the night came and I was hanging around with the other guys when one of the recruits screamed my number: "4262!! Where are you?? SGT Henrique wants to talk with you now!!"
"ME??? WTF DUDE, WHAT I DID??"
"I don't know man, but you better go talk to him fast"
Everybody looked at me as if I was about to be tortured or executed.
So I have gone to his bedroom, thinking about what I did wrong. Knocked on the door and presented myself properly.
"RECRUIT MARINE 4262, ASKING PERMISSION TO ENTER THE ROOM" he abruptly opened the door and got out.
"No need to enter, let me talk something with you in private."
he continued, "Well, as you may have noticed, one of your colleagues had a little problem today.
I asked one of the recruits who were his closest friend, and they told me is you"
I actually was not, but since our platoon was organized in order of height and we were close in height a lot of times I was close to him, so I think someone concluded that we were friends bc of that.
"Well, I need you to do me a favor. Take him to the nursery, I told the nurses about his situation and they are expecting you there. Your friend is looking a bit down, so try to comfort him, ok?"
So I took him to the nursery, he looked really sad. I tried to talk to him a bit while we were waiting to enter. Tried to motivate him, tell that he will return to our platoon soon, that it is just a matter of time and things like that. Sadly, that was not the case.
After some days, SGT Henrique called me again asked me to visit him on the nursery to comfort him and see how he is, so when I was there 4213 told me that he was disconnected from the recruitment process bc of his mental breakdown. He still looked sad but was telling me that next year he will try again and that he will never give up on his dream. Well, after some weeks he was sent home and I never of heard of him anymore, I really hope that he made it in the next year or that he at least found a better a path in life for him.
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