Do the "new ways" of discipline work compared to the old? What are some of the most outlandish forms of discipline you have seen?

My battle buddy and I having to dig a grave render honors and burry cigarette butts we walked by without picking them up at Ft Hunter Liggett Ca. Neither of us smoked but Satan the Operations NCO saw us in our act of gross indiscipline and the rest is history. But you can bet your ass I never walked by a piece of trash or cigarette but the rest of my Army life.

When I was at boot, the CC was anal about all his swabbies being able to do 50 pushups. Unfortunately that wasn't my strong suit and I got special attention. So the Chief put a large dog turd on the ground under my face, telling me he'd take it away at 50. I brown nosed at 48. Next time he told me he saved up one of his turds. I made 50. Discipline? Maybe. Motivation? Definitely.

Sir,

I can only speak on the Army and my experience thus far. What I've seen though is that in todays Army we are told to use counseling statements. Provide a course of action to help the Soldier correct his or her deficenies and then evaluate if it worked or not after a set time that you've determined or determined with input from the soldier (if it's needed or warranted). I've done this and seen it work and not work. I think the biggest issue is that we end up doing paperwork on Soldiers, having them disciplined through UCMJ actions when they're so young that they majority of the time don't understand how these things can effect them as they move on in their career.

When I was a private I didn't experience this though, I made a mistake and I knew that I was going to get corrective training in the form of a smoke session. I'm grateful now looking back that that was all I recieved. I easily could have recieved UCMJ action that could have severly effected me making a career of the Army.