Teaching a Future Marine how to tread water with a pack and a rifle is abuse?
This recruit was on his fifth day of water survival training, or in other words on his fifth day at the pool, he drowned during what had to be his test to qualify as "WSQ" or Water Safety Qualified as I was once tested.
This recruit was having trouble adapting and wanted to go home, I suspect he decided to drown just enough so that he would get kicked out of the Marines.
It didn't work out the way he planned.
I *really* like the tagline.
When I went through that, I don't recall that we had packs and rifles. The philosophy at the time was IIRC, if your ship just sank, lose the gear and the weapon. Use your blouse to create a flotation device. We can rearm and re-equip you- we do need you back. We jumped off of a mocked up ship's side in full utilities and stay afloat for some number of minutes. I was quite comfortable with swimming at the time, but I recall the swim qual being quite a challenge. I think I qualified Second Class.
But then we had muskets, which are useless if your powder is wet. :-)