e57, that's too funny.
Ex-Air Force here.
I hated being a "pinger".
Although we didn't have the physical punishment you guys go through, we had the head games that mentally frustrated you.
The funniest, for all you out there to enjoy, was the one day, and I mean all day, of getting in bed, and getting out of bed, in 30 seconds.
This entails the whole flight "group of trainees" getting tucked in bed, and then when the drill instructor announces wake-up, the whole flight has to get up, get dressed in your fatigues, and run downstairs to get in formation. There was about 40 guys to a flight. All that in 30 seconds. If you didn't make it, it was upstairs to make your beds by military standards, inspections, get back into bed, and wait for the signal.
This may not seem like much, but after 8 or 10 hours of this, you want to kill the slow guys.
