Don't get me wrong we had multiple games of beating the crap out of each other, we just had different names for them e.g. 'British Bulldogs'.

Never did me any harm!

If you want to go one step further into being 'soft' one of the Eurpopean Armies does not allow NCO's to shout at recruits!

Hell I can remember when I was in the Army a Glaswegian NCO screaming at someone (not me) for f'n up something and all I coudn't understand a single word. Knew the guy was getting a beasting though.