Not sure what the rest of you all think, but when I think of hard labor the first image that comes to my mind is someone out in a yard somewhere breaking rocks. Maybe that is because the old movies would portray it that way.

The Dog Handler [here] will not be confined, but will return to Fort Bragg where his commander will assign the daily hard labor duties.

My question is, what could be considered Hard Labor?

Removing asbestos while being forced to listen to country...wait, that would be torture, not hard labor.

I was just wondering if they considered painting the ordelrly room, mowing the lawn, picking weeds from in between the sidewalks, sweeping the motorpool and doing police call around the company area all Hard Labor.

Other than that there is little I can think of to have a Soldier do that would be considered "hard labor" with the excpetion of 90 days duty at the Recycling Point at Fort Hood.

I suppose it isn't all "Hard Labor", however you make the Soldier work all day with minimum amounts of sleep, while providing him with MREs, and i'm sure you've got most of it covered.

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Originally posted by admin:
My question is, what could be considered Hard Labor?

I can envision Soldiers chained together at the ankles and making little rocks from larger rocks.

The Marine Corps had (has?) this and we actually saw them at work while at the week-long rifle range. It was almost like the movies with the cadence while banging rocks. I forgot the name of the facility (not brig), but they were reassigned to another command on the installation that handled just this.

Maybe spit shine the floor with clear kiwi and a rag, instead of a mop and buffer?
Trim the lawn with scissors instead of the lawn mower?
The removing asbestos sounded like a pretty good one.

21P; Mineral Volume Reduction Specialist.

On one ocassion I was the COR (SOG, NCOIC, whatever) for the guard force at our battalion's EIB testing site. The BN extra duty force (about 4) was filling somewhere in the neighborhood of 2000 sand bags and stacking them for later use on the site (what can I say, cheese shop).
They couldn't seem to figure out why I wouldn't let them use my truck to move the filled bags. I guess I'm just mean (gotta love the turd-buckets; they have the strangest ideas)

Could we have him do telemarketing?

There's a difference in hard labor and cruel and unusual punishment.