Posted on 12/21/2022 12:26:01 PM PST by Enlightened1
After reading the title of this article you may be thinking this is a Babylon Bee article but the answer is no.
A recent report commissioned by the Corps raises “concerns” over Marines using the terms “Sir” or “Ma’am” while addressing drill instructors due to Gender Neutrality worries.
https://twitter.com/Marinetimes/status/1605075524249853952
Per the Marine Corps Times:
A new academic report on efforts to integrate Marine Corps boot camp recommends dropping gender-specific salutations for drill instructors, but service leaders are not convinced they want to take that step.
The lengthy report, commissioned by the Corps from the University of Pittsburgh in 2020 and completed in 2022, points out that half of the military services already have done away with gendered identifiers for training staff.
“The Army, Navy, and Coast Guard effectively de-emphasize gender in an integrated environment,” the report states. “Instead of saying ‘ma’am’ or ‘sir,’ recruits in these Services refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles followed by their last names. Gendered identifiers prime recruits to think about or visually search for a drill instructor’s gender first, before their rank or role.”
Well, if you can’t win a war, protect your borders or run with yuou tail between your legs out of Afghanistan without tripping - then why not drop the Sir part of being a Marine.
Snappier uniforms with puppy masks are coming next.
Well said!
Sweet Jesus...
“refer to their drill instructors using their ranks or roles”
Can I pick my own rank or role? Maybe I’m a corporal, but I identify as a General or Field Marshall!
The Chicoms are laughing.
5.56mm
“Don’t call me Sir! You will refer to me as Field Marshal Fields!”
“Yes, Marshal Fields!”
I am thankful that R. Lee Ermey is not here to see this.
When I was in the Army, if you addressed a non-com as “Sir”, the usual reply would be: “don’t call me sir, I work for a living!”
My drill instructor’s preferred pro nouns were...
Sir, yes Sir. and I CAN’T HEAR YOU !
SIR YES SIR, but your said...
YOU? YOU? Do I look like a f’n sheep to you~!!!
Ah, the good old days.
When I was in it was verboten to refer to a Drill Instructor by name or rank!
You called each one ‘SIR!’ That was the first and last word out of your mouth when speaking to anybody other than another recruit.
It was so ingrained in us, that a couple of years after boot camp, I met one of my former drill instructors at Camp Lejeune and I was very uncomfortable calling him ‘Gunny’. Even though he did not remember me!.........
LOL.
Uh now, maybe not so much.
5.56mm
I’m Lord Humungus.
The Pfentagon
When Rome conquered Cartage they burned everything and salted the ground. That was the way to do it. But the state just opens it arms to the viper of communism and nurtured it back to health. Here is the end result...
As a default, I consider EVERY headline I read to be out of the Babylon Bee unless and until notified otherwise.
An enterprising young recruit should insist his pronouns are Commandant
That’s good.
I recently counseled my young nephew against joining the USMC.
He wants to “grow up,” he wants to do something that will “toughen” him ,and do something that will give him discipline and respect from his country.
Those are all worthy things, I told him, but several us have pointed out to him: you’ll have to get the vax and every update they deem necessary, you won’t be serving the USA, you will be serving the whims of woke Democrats and the deep-state, and when they send your @ss to Ukraine, you’ll be fighting and dying for Hunter Biden’s failed corruption scheme.
NO WAY.
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