Ages ago, when I was a second lieutenant in Korea, my brigade executive officer had a great term I've used for ages: Oxygen thief. Generally a useless buerocrat who serves no constructive purpose. As any bureaucracy grows, it generally gets filled with more and more of them. The Department of Defense is an excellent example of one.
Two years ago the Navy put out an instructional video on how to use pronouns and create "safe spaces." The fact this pathetic joke is seen as anything other than the waste of oxygen and resources is beyond me. I pray come January 2025 a new president purges the DOD of the people who created this crap and we can concentrate the military on its real purpose, to win our wars.
But such stupidity is not just in our service. From our greatest ally, London, we have a problem.
Army boss considering scrapping 'masculine' titles like Guardsman
General Sir Patrick Sanders says he wants to ensure everyone in the Army can be themselves.
The head of the Army is mulling scrapping traditional military ranks such as Rifleman and Guardsman because they are masculine. General Sir Patrick Sanders, in a plan to make regiments more inclusive, is set to move away from centuries of history by ditching the titles.
Gender-neutral ranks may replace the world-famous Guards regiment, and even General Sir Patrick’s own regiment, the Rifles...
...The decision in the hands of General Sir Patrick may also have wider implications for other strands of the armed forces.
In the event that he opts for gender neutral ranks, the Navy may be pressured into doing away with historic titles such as “midshipman” and “seaman”.
General Patrick, your army's recruitment is down even with a tough economy. You are supporting another nation's war against Russia. You have continued real issues with handing an army, and you are concerned about this crap?
...Speaking to the Centre for Army Leadership podcast, General Sir Patrick said it was nations rather than simply armies that fight conflicts, and as such it was necessary for the army to reflect the nation it represents.
The Chief of the General Staff added: “If you want to tap into people's potential, people have to feel they can be themselves...”
Sir, with all do respect, you are dead wrong on this. An army is a team. "It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team." Perhaps you missed something about basic training. The instructors break the individual down to almost nothing, and rebuild them, ready, "part of a team." The day we lose that focus, we have lost.
The problem is the Brit's (and the Americans) are not "loosing" that focus, but embracing the destruction of that focus. Ten years ago this concept would be laughed at as a bad joke Now it'e being metastasized into military culture.
After the disaster of Vietnam, we spent a generation rebuilding what Washington destroyed. We will have to relearn the lessons and rebuilt again.
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