One thing you find out when you join the military... you can be a stellar troopie, but screw up and you'll be doing things for a DI that will never make sense to the common man...

What you learn is... PLAY THE GAME... go into every military school prepared to PLAY THE GAME... the best soldiers and warriors learn it... they understand that making yourself a name any way other than by standing out in school drills and training will result in the type of scrutiny and negative attention you don't want...

So, when Bronco gets a player on his 'program', #1 it's going to be pretty close for every player, he doesn't have time to change it up much between them... and some of those things are:

early 15 minutes to all practices, meetings, meals, etc... if he says 15, you be there 20 minutes early, standing tall...

it's not easy to get around this, you can't think your going to just meet the minimum, playing the game is meet and EXCEEDING the expectations, then when you are back in good standing, keeping it up so that the authority figure moves on to weaker victims...

Just saying... maybe Bronco is too tough, but the only way to beat it, is to play the game so you can PLAY THE GAME..

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"Any fool with fast hands can grab a tiger by the TAIL (not the exact quote but it works), but takes a HERO to keep on squeezing; only HERO's and quitters walk away, no one else, and I am no quitter!!" -- Alexis Machine (The Dark Half - Stephen King)