Posted on Aug 28, 2014
Is it offensive to call service members brother and sister?
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Is it appropriate to refer to service members as "my brother" or "my sister"?
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SPC(P) Jay Heenan
Ummmmmm....so dating 'brothers' and 'sisters' is creepy? According to my Uncle Grandpa, it is just fine, thank you very much!
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MSG Brad Sand
SSG V. Michelle Woods
One girl's offensive and creepy is anothers hot and sexy...as seen on the internet.
One girl's offensive and creepy is anothers hot and sexy...as seen on the internet.
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I reserve the moniker of brother for those have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they have my back and I have theirs. There are only a handful outside of the Corps who I consider brothers. By default anyone who has earned an EGA is my brother. Something that always sticks with me when I think of this is Henry the V St. Crispin Day speech. Excerpt follows:
"...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother..."
"...We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother..."
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Capt Richard I P.
"And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."
"And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day."
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No, but some people have a very low threshold for being offended. IF they are offeneded, I don't want to call them brother or sister and am safer knowing that they are so easily offended and lack the core values to be my brother or sister in arms.
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SPC Leisel Luman
PO1 George Medley I found that form you were looking for but I had to use it wipe wipe poo off my flip flops
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MSG Brad Sand
The nice part about that form SPC Leisel Luman is that it normally has some form of poo on it...or should. You must have a little one too to use 'poo' in normal conversations.
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MSG Brad Sand
SPC Leisel Luman
I think you hit on something there...some people decided to be offended when they should have just had a good laugh.
I think you hit on something there...some people decided to be offended when they should have just had a good laugh.
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PO1 (Join to see)
I'm gonna go home and slap mom and dad.....maybe twice...some of ya'll are.....well, ARMY...which is weird anyway.......
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It can be, which is why I only use it with people that I know well and know won't take offense.
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SPC Charles Brown
SFC Mark Merino, you gotta be careful with those active duty officers, and some of the senior enlisted types. The active duty officers such as COL Randall Cudworth spend so much time protecting their crayons they lose touch with reality and wind up sending the senior NCO's like SFC Robin Gates to buy them new coloring books. Or they stand at the copy machine with one blank sheet of paper to make copies by the 100's. LOL my brothers and sisters.
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SFC Robin Gates
CPL Brown Oh, that hurts. Lol, nope never ran after coloring books or stood at the copier! Memo graph machine, VGTs and slides were high speed in my day!! Thank god, for carbon paper!!!
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Absolutely appropriate! When I was active, all the guys in my shop referred to me as "brosef". Kinda weird, but you know, I was the girl that was like one of the guys. Tends to happen when you're only one of 5 females in an all male shop. I fondly referred to my fellow Airmen as "brother". It's almost a natural instinct to have that kind of familial feeling for your fellow service members. We are, after all, brothers and sisters in arms.
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No. We may not always like each other or get along, but we will never leave a fallen comrade. Sounds like the defintion of a brother/sister to me.
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I use it as a general term of endearment or when addressing like the audience here. I believe it has a special meaning but would not use it if it put someone off.
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