By Milt Harris ——Bio and Archives--December 27, 2022
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"Gender-neutral identifiers are an unambiguous, impartial way to circumvent these issues. Employing gender-neutral identifiers eliminates the possibility of misgendering drill instructors, which can unintentionally offend or cause discord. By teaching recruits to use gender-neutral identifiers for their drill instructors, services underscore the importance of respecting authoritative figures regardless of gender."Fortunately, Colonel Howard Hall, the Chief of Staff for Marine Corp Training and Education isn't buying what the report is attempting to sell.
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"That's going to take some effort. Honestly, that's not a quick fix. What is inculcating in our young recruits that will or will not be reinforced when they graduate and enter the fleet Marine force? So again, we want to avoid any quick-fix solutions that introduce perturbations down the line." "All of a sudden, we change something at recruit training, and recruits start coming in and using a different identifier. It's not something we would change overnight. Again, we've got a history of ‘sir, ma'am, sir, ma'am.' If we change something at the root level, how do we make the corresponding change at the Fleet Marine Force? So it's not ours to implement alone."Hall is correct. Forcing these inane changes on recruits and then sending them out into the real world to join fellow Marines that still respectfully use "Sir" and "Ma'am" will only cause division. The real question is why these changes are even being discussed and why was 2 million dollars spent on such a trivial matter.
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Milt spent thirty years as a sales and operations manager for an international manufacturing company. He is also a four-time published author on a variety of subjects. Now, he spends most of his time researching and writing about conservative politics and liberal folly.