Why do they hit Pyle with soap wrapped in towels in the movie Full Metal Jacket?
* His unit did not like him and soap bars wrapped in towels leave no clues nor do extensive damage * Substitutions can be potato, tightly wound heavy woolen socks, etcetera. * This sort of punishment by one’s comrades has been around as long as there have been soldiers. * A drill sergeant has tremendous psychological control over his unit of trainees. It is a strong enough psychological control that it can cause the trainiees to mete out barracks justice to someone they feel is making it as hard on them, the unit, as upon himlelf, the individual. * Pyle’s drill sergeant was frustrated with him and he took that frustation out on the rest of the platoon to create resentment towards Pyle and a standard old barrack’s justice method was chosen. * During Basic Training on Tank Hill at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, my platoon chained “Goose” Guillory to a barrack post and “lost the key”. Guillory would not shower. The drill sergeant could not force him to shower so he turned it over, pshcholo
