Sad and all too common. :(
Sort of ironic. Some of the weirdest stuff I've heard of came from guys in the US Navy. From descriptions of the crossing the line ceremony I heard from an ex-Navy coworker to a
Congressman talking about tickle fights.
On a more serious note, there is finally concern on
male sexual assault in the military.
So it appears boot camp doesn't do a lot of good.
Isolating these guys with each other is really not going to change the situation in any significant way.
I once tried to train a gay man to understand football, but it was rather like teaching a pig to sing.
So we just spent the game commenting on their butts.
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me, although one of my friends enrolled her son in Aussie Rules footy for a season because she thought he needed to 'harden up'. lol It didn't help too much, but he seemed to like it anyway.
On the other hand, it could be a good thing.
Sure, the kids had to spend four days putting up with the boofhead "instructors". In return, they learn they are not alone in their ways and get a network of similarly effeminate young men to keep in contact with. What are the odd some of them end up bonking each other?