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(ref: here ) They called it TRAINING. Thirteen weeks of stomping mindlessly in circles, learning not to talk back, to follow orders, to fill out paperwork, and to repeat. Thirteen weeks of no sleep, forced dining, and learning to innovate - in an environment that suppressed the expression of the individual. The order of the day was groupthink. Week one was paperwork, haircuts, and pseudo-camaraderie; stick thirty young men in a box, take away their identities, and it comes as no shock that they begin to connect. Add in the commands of an arbitrary source of authority, communal bathing, and matching uniforms, and you have an opportunity to invite suppression of voice. They called it TRAINING. Week two was revision; at this stage, those with distinctly unsuppressible personalities arise - these are given official categories of either leadership or victim ... sometimes both. These are the geese. Everyone else is a duck, following commands and treading water. Weapons were ...