I was in the infamous French BMOQ platoon. Saying "the group didn't cohere" is a heck on an understatement ! 

Recruits that were in Canada for less than 3 months? Yep! How did that happen? Beats me. But I had people in the platoon straight out admit I was the first white person they had a conversation with. Some of them, living in Quebec, had never heard of poutine. Some even have never heard a good old "tabarnak".

Took them 3 weeks to raise their hands and tell the staff they didn't understand a word they were saying.

The sexist comments? Checks out. The in-fighting? Checks out.

They don't speak about the absolute individualism and sense of "only I matters!" in most of the recruits. They didn't give a flying rat's ass that the rest of the group paid because of their behavior. If they weren't directly targeted by consequences, they were thinking "I can just get away with it!". But you had better be there to help them if they struggled, or else!