On Netflix I watched Boots, which was based on the 2016 memoir The Pink Marine by Greg Cope White:
Cameron Cope, a closeted gay American teenager, impulsively follows his best friend Ray McAffey into the United States Marine Corps.
Set in 1990, when the military excluded gay people from service, the story depicts their boot camp training.
It was very powerful. I guess if they're training kids to fight and kill in a war the process has to be brutal and dehumanising …
Almost worse: it seemed kids whose fathers had been in the military were treated as junior versions of the recruits.
