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In Basic Military Training, my company commander angrily informed us that all the instructors were no longer allowed to use profanity around recruits, after orders from above. He then proceeded to tell us we were all "mother-loving sons of people". IMMD.
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i really wish they weren’t turning the military into a kindergarten.
They’re just forcing the instructors to actually learn how to teach, instead of just demoralizing all the recruits until they’ll obey their commander’s every whim.
It’s not their job to “teach.” It’s their job to turn pussies into soldiers.
It’s their job to “teach” and “turn pussies into soldiers”. Coarse, you don’t need to swear to get your point across.
But… thank god the “Stress Cards” that were planned never got far past planning. If you are getting chewed out, you’re supposed to be stressed, it’s punishment for screwing up. You’re not wave a card like a whinny bitch.
Someone who says you don’t need to swear uses a swear word in their comment. How funny.
Spoken like a true pussy.
Spoken like someone with no military experience whatsoever
It’s their job to attempt to get young people to stop thinking about their self and start think about the team. Also at times some chosen profanity can work better that holding someone’s hand. The grenade course at US Army BCT is a prime example. You do something stupid with the practice grenades and told the right way to do it. You do that same thing again you get cussed at and maybe you don’t do it again.
And then people wonder why so many soldiers come back with PTSD?
Soldiers don’t learn a damn thing from current military “training”. They just “learn” to do as their told, and to act before they think.
Reinforcement works much better than punishment when it comes to learning.
PTSD has nothing to do with their training. It has everything to do with combat. Our soldiers think and obey. It doesn’t sound like you have any clue what you are talking about so it can’t be called Truth.
Part of the point of military training is to prepare people to go into hell. That includes exposing them to stress in training.
Also, acting without conscious thought saves lives in combat, as does doing what you’re told.
well said jenni.
the purpose of basic training IS to break you down. they have to get past all the useless entitled, spoiled brat crap so they can then teach genuine discipline.
you ask any soldier who has seen battle. they may have hated their instructors but they respect them and are grateful for the lessons learned.
thank you.
more people are agreeing with me than i expected, i am pleased and surprised.
Technically, they’re not supposed to use profanities in Basic training anyway.
But it’s one of those rules that no one actually follows.
It does sound like something an officer would say though.
Oh BURN
Glad that MMD OP, but that’s just stupid. i hope t gets reversed.
I’m gonna go watch Heartbreak Ridge.
Seriously? Do they sing lullabies at naptime too?
I LOL’d at everyone arguing over a fake post.
I agree that this is fake. However, I have trained little kids in a physical setting (a gym) and dreaming up generic cuss words in response to pain can stretch your creativity.
Nah, it happened. The order was genuine. The instructors really weren’t supposed to swear.
This was the lieutenant’s way of mocking the order. He was making fun of what he saw as a ridiculous rule.
Seriously, this didn’t actually stop anyone from swearing. But it proved the lieutenant was awesome.
Maternal copulator is a better term.
Incestuous byblow?
So they train people to shoot other people, keep their nerves under fire and everything, but have to avoid snubbing the soft souls of tomorrow’s soldiers by refraining from profanity? Bwaaahaaaahaaaa, that’s almost to ridiculous to believe!
“Could you please send a bullet through that sniper’s head, Mr. Pomeroy, if that’s not too much trouble?” – “Not a problem, sir, I believe I can be done before tea-time, Major Smith!”
Oh, you mean British Army!
They said something about encouraging an environment of discipline, respect and courtesy. I dunno. But an average group of 18-year-old guys is going to be pretty foul mouthed already, right? It’s not like we were gonna pick up anything new by example.
I figure parents or families must have complained to the commandant or something.
Yeah. Reminds me of a Lewis Black bit on how he was invited to do the White House Press Diner and couldnt use any profanity. “These people are the first line of defense when it comes to the terrorist threat, but the word “shit” makes them cry. “Why didn’t he say poopie?! Why didn’t he say poopie?!”"
It would have been better if he had said “Mother loveing sons of female dogs.” but that is just my opinion.
And this is what is wrong with the Army…Its to the point NCO’s can’t even use “corrective training”. We are training an entire generation of pansies!
Those sons of biscuit eating bull dogs!!
speeechless…
£$%^(*& *&^%$*() “£$!! (&^$%!! )(*^&*$£!! +_*&^%”£$!! “£$+_&^%!!
You have to understand the difference between officers and enlisted in the military. The officers make the rules, the enlisted (NCOs) enforce them.
Officers we well known for thier “brilliant” ideas.
While NCOs know where to draw the line.
Hey Truthbag, why don’t you enlist and get on the track to become a DI yourself, that way the Army will benefit from your vast experience instead of relying on what armies have done for 5000 years.
“Son of a butt-sniffin’ momma dog” is one of my favorites.
Of course, the invective phrases the CO apparently replaced in his speach are not profanity at all — the first is obscenity, and the second is merely an inferential insult. Profanity is invective with negative religious connotation.
Excuse me, “speech.”
Good grief! It’s just like getting around the censor in an MMORPG! What, they think the recruits are 11?
I don’t even rightly understand the concept of profanity. Why exactly is one word bad while a word meaning the ~exact same thing~ is fine? Who decided which word was ‘bad’?
fudging motherhugger
“Sir! Request permission to take that in the spirit it was intended, sir!”
Go, Navy! lol!