What Is Happening at Army Basic Combat Training?

That's a lot of griping.

What could happen at Army Basic Combat Training? It's been a few years since my own Basic Military Training (USAF, so my terms may not match up), and I've been daydreaming:

All the food is farmed locally by servicemembers, not outsourced, as an opportunity to suffer together and learn some useful skills. Do self-aid and buddy-care practice as part of butchering animals.

No hot water, except for hand-washing; cold showers are good for us, and we'll use less water. Alternatively, go longer without showers, or just roll in the dirt like horses (Nitrosomonas eutropha bacteria is one that helps against body odor).

Mental-health counseling and training; give us more useful tools and decrease the suicide rate. Remove the need for othering the enemy and help us each learn where we are along the kill chain (since many of us don't actually want to kill, this might help us resolve conflict in other ways. See the book On Killing, by Dave Grossman).

Practice going longer without food; yet more suffering together, with the upside of reducing inflammation and teaching life skills.

tl;dr: A whole lotta griping - about poor recruit quality & motivation, "retain and promote anyone who remembers to breathe" standards, etc. - in the United States Army. Sounds sadly legit (to this old non-veteran).

Now, imagine what the discussion would look like - if neither censored nor self-censored - for the Russian Army.