Breitbart: The British Army is to scrap role titles like “rifleman” and “infantryman” for the more gender-neutral “infantry soldier” and “infanteer”.
The briefing document, seen by the Mail on Sunday, also said that any training manuals with “gender specific” language will have to be thrown out to not be exclusionary to women recruits.
“Gender specific terms are to be removed from all doctrine, policy, orders and instructions at the SCHINF [School of Infantry] and their use discouraged,” the Doctrine and Concepts policy document reads.
“The IBS [Infantry Battle School, Brecon, Wales] is to ensure gender specific terms are removed from the next edition of Infantry Platoon Tactics and the Brecon Battle Book,” it adds.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence confirmed the changes to the tabloid, but said they will not affect historic rank titles such as “Guardsman”. more here
Might as well … Britain’s dead as a door knob – so whatever they call it, it don’t matter.
izlamo delenda est …
FUBAR. And for those of you from Rio Linda, that means Fucked Up Beyond All Repair.
Seems appropriate — since their army is run by a bunch of infants. “Infanteer” ???!! “I’m Bobby!” “I’m Annette!”
Moe Tom — I thought it was “Fu*ked up Beyond All Recognition.”
I’ve got a better one than “infanteer” – Wussy
Just curious, but do you still have to say “yes, Sir!” when addressing a superior officer?
Bwahahahahahahahaha…infanteer? Really
Nate, I guess you could address them “Yes, It!”
AA. Could be. But phucked up it is. No bout adoubt it.
Will they issue Mickey Mouse ears to the Infanteers? And how about tutus and tiaras to all the queer soldiers, the Infantqueers and the ability to prance around like a faggot while on parade. And afterwards they can break up into home decoration and flower designing classes. And then there’s the Navy version of FUBAR, SNAFU = situation normal all fucked up.
Imagine? The British Army is “investigating” real soldiers who posed for a photo with real Brit Tommy Robinson. What a phucking joke! Damn!
Yeah, because that worked SO well with the US Navy last year!
“Scottish troops responded to the new rules with celebrations and skirt hemming parties.”
“infanteer”…That sounds like a fancy way to say “crybaby”.
Will the infanteers be getting air support from attack helicopter parent squadrons?
Who besides me is willing to let Europe fix it themselves this time?
No Churchill’s or Thatcher’s left in Britain, just Chamberlain’s and Infanteers.
Moe tom
I just got back from seeing “They Shall Not Grow Old,” and struggle to imagine female soldiers doing any of what I saw. Sorry, ladies.
If you can see this film, you should. Apart from the IMO mildly distracting 3D, it’s brilliant. Footage is almost entirely real wartime footage, brilliantly restored and enhanced with color and sound. ALL narration is from archived postwar interviews from veterans who were there.
Sgt. Major’s all by himself, marching up and down the square… 😳
“Infanteer?!”
Infantile… 🙄
I also just got home from seeing They Shall Not Grow Old. The theater I was at was full to capacity for the 7PM showing of the movie. And I agree with The Deplorable TWP that it’s well worth watching when it next shows on Dec. 27th. At the end of the movie when they interviewed Peter Jackson, he was saying that most of those British soldiers shown in the archival footage were killed within 30 minutes of going over the top into no man’s land attacking the Germans. It’s a pretty powerful (and sometimes humorous from the actual soldiers perspective) documentary from real footage of some of the battles of World War 1. It’s definitely well worth watching.