When I went into 7th grade, that was high school. The gym teacher was out of the military.
Oooh... that brings back memories, haha. We had an ex military dude in 2nd class of secondary school for PE. He was a total A-hole. Looked sexy though which was great at first, until we experienced his 'drill sergeant' routine. Then we didn't like him so much anymore.
He was such an a-hole that at some point a pupil (not from my class) deliberately made him trip and he ripped his Achilles heel. If memory serves he needed surgery.
That was a major event as such things didn't normally happen at my school. Not here, and not in those days either.
In general I hated PE!! I was never good at it, not interested in it, and still am not into sports.
The only thing I liked during PE was hockey. But we mostly had to do baseball which I totally hated.