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* In ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', Private "Gomer Pyle" blows away [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|Gunnery Sergeant Hartman]], who had [[Break the Cutie|driven him into a psychotic breakdown]].
** Although, to be fair, Pyle wasn't a model soldier, and when he did show improvement, Hartman did commend him. Plus there was the other Marines throwing a "blanket party" for him involving beating the poor guy with bars of soap.
*** Hartman is still a demonstrable failure as a drill instructor in several key aspects (he shows no awareness as to the true mental condition of his trainees, he is either unaware of or condones illegal bullying and assaults by trainees on each other even when its obvious enough to leave marks, and his actions in his final scene are a flat-out [[Too Dumb To Live]]), and the proper remedy for Private Pyle would have been to discharge him as unfit once it became apparent that he simply did not have the mental facilities to function as a Marine, not ride him into a mental breakdown.
* Captain Stillman from ''[[Stripes]]''.
* Lieutenant Pavlov Dill in ''[[Starship Troopers]] 2: Hero of the Federation'' was one of these, though he's more incompetent than mean.
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