A doc holding your balls and asking you to cough checks for an inguinal hernia, where your intestine pushes through the inguinal canal. This canal is much wider in men, hence it being much more common in men.

I am in no position to judge the procedure on a medical basis but know that it is (or was) near universal for potential recruits and has become a bit of a meme.

Your strong reaction to this procedure is something for you to dwell on.

The medical examination doesn’t say much. Your take on it that they’re perverts wanting to look at genitals tells more than you think

That's, like, your obsession, not their's.

whats the deal here with the genitals? normal part of life, and having someone check if theres nothing weird/curious in a full body health check doesn't sound unreasonable. was okay for me too. and girls do get their private parts inspected deeper every year at the female health docs than once in a lifetime ball touching from some drafter, different level, just accept it

It used to be that way, and probably will be that way again. I know of a few of people who got an early testicular cancer diagnosis that way. So it seems that there is a medical use for it.

Isn't this just a standard part of a physical exam?

Isn't that just part of a physical exam in general? I remember the first physical exam I had in collage we all had to do that.

I had to undress back then.

But anyway:

"The Clash - The Call Up (Official Video)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScaGjwkg2Y

eh, this stirs memories of the similar exam in Italy (abolished ~20 years ago).

The doctor would also grab your testicles and ask to cough, to diagnose varicocele. I wonder how many young men have undiagnosed issues since the military exam was abolished.