Originally Posted by
SASless
The question is how does all this "woke" business improve combat effectiveness of a military force....not who is offended or triggered or has their knickers in a wad over the use of some pronoun or rank while addressing others.
Is this latest surrender to Political Correctness actually in any way going to make the RAF or any other military force better at achieving its reason for being.....that being defending the Nation in combat with an aggressor enemy.
I see all of this as being a huge distraction from that mission....the training it requires to be prepared......assets that would otherwise be available.....and worst of all....it brings division among the Troops as they all deal with this.
Anything that dulls the point of the Spear is bad for the Force holding that Spear.
Its not binary. You can have diversity and be an effective fighting force.
I remember when they got rid of females when they became pregnant, and didn’t allow homosexuality. This blunted effectiveness as we got rid of highly trained and skilled individuals. Guess what, when the rules changed, we got on with the job and nothing changed, apart from having a happier and more effective force.
Its laughable to see how triggered the old guard get at topics such as beards, LBTQ , “woke” etc and how much worse it is nowadays. The reality is that we are still as effective and have been so during the last few years of constant operations.