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Rogerborg
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PostPosted: 08:09 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Swearing banned in the army, gosh darn it Reply with quote
Pradva Yoof program shows shouty instructors, and Generation Snowflake decides it's not for them. Crying or Very sad

What's next, no marching up and down the square? Laughing
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PostPosted: 08:16 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Newsbeat's been told there are now worries within the army about how that sort of behaviour could put people off signing up.


How will they feel about getting shot at then? Hipster soldiers?

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PostPosted: 09:16 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
grr666 wrote:
How will they feel about getting shot at then?

Violated.

The military needs to provide a Safe Space for combatants. Folded arms
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PostPosted: 09:25 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Newsbeat's been told there are now worries within the army about how that sort of behaviour could put people off signing up.


that set in quite some years ago .. once the bodies came home and it was realised that you only have one life ..
not a video / computer game is it son ... Sick
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PostPosted: 09:58 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Re: Swearing banned in the army, gosh darn it Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
Pradva Yoof program shows shouty instructors, and Generation Snowflake decides it's not for them.


I started watching that half-hour TV show embedded in the article.

Funnily enough, I don't think I'd make it for a different reason. I'd be that annoying 'ideological' guy who refuses to swear allegiance to god and the queen.

Anyway, on topic... if they can't handle a bit of faux-outrage from their instructors, they really shouldn't be there.
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PostPosted: 10:29 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T9EC3ZpPIw
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You can't think while I'm giving you a few love taps?
How the fuck are you going to fire your rifle...
when grenades are going off in your face?


If you can't put up with 14 weeks of being verbally and mentally abused (I don't think they can hit you like they used to), then you don't have any place in the Army IMO.

Basic training is meant to suck and be shit, you just keep your head down and grind away till you come out the other side.
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PostPosted: 10:31 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Drill instructors told to stop swearing? Good luck with that Laughing
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PostPosted: 10:35 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Re: Swearing banned in the army, gosh darn it Reply with quote
Lord Percy wrote:
if they can't handle a bit of faux-outrage from their instructors, they really shouldn't be there.

True, but they're already down on their quota of bullet-sponges, and they also serve who stand and whinge.

Interesting that they're running a "Don't join the army" marketing campaign, when that's exactly what's happening. Actually, I've just heard it running it on Classic Geezer Rock which seems hilariously off target.

Perhaps they'd get more recruits if they were signing up to actually defend the UK. Thinking
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PostPosted: 11:48 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Re: Swearing banned in the army, gosh darn it Reply with quote
Rogerborg wrote:
...to actually defend the UK. Thinking

Ask an average squaddie how they would fix Calais if they were allowed to, they're still pretty pissed about Rigby.
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PostPosted: 12:42 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Shouty shouty is a bit of a wasted exercise in "break them down and build them up", intended more for conscripts on a 4 week training course. If the Army needs to scream, shout and abuse you to make you do the job, you probably aren't what they need anyway. Afterall, when the shouting stops, you might stop doing. Notice that in units like the SAS and SBS they just ask you to do stuff in a normal voice. You don't want to do? Ok, bye.
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PostPosted: 13:14 - 24 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
True, and if they could turf out the slackers, mongs and lippy entitled gobshites, I'm sure they'd do so.

But they're begging for recruits, so they can't be too choosy about who they let through training. They're doing the best they can with what they have to work with.

I'm not up to date with Navy and RAF recruitment - are they as badly off?
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PostPosted: 19:19 - 26 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Speaking for the Navy, recruitment isn't really a problem. Retention is.
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PostPosted: 20:06 - 26 Feb 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
Lot of messy break-ups?
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PostPosted: 00:46 - 01 Mar 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I would be more worried about some Eton educated toff sending me off to some pointless war to get my legs blown off than getting sworn at.
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PostPosted: 19:50 - 01 Mar 2016    Post subject: Reply with quote
I wouldn't know about that. Being in the Navy I am more likely to get something else blown when visiting places like Canada.
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