Photo by Cristian Newman
You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. There is only one sort of discipline—perfect discipline.
—General George S. Patton, Jr.
“I hate having female recruits,”
Drill Sergeant Robinson told us.
“The males, I can break.
I break them down, build them
back up, then they do anything
for me. Females don’t break.”
The sadness in his voice
made us sad, too. We wanted
to break. Maybe we could fake
being good soldiers.
What would breaking look like,
for the females? Tears
we already knew how to do.
