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Ok today at the Ft Lee clothing sales i overheard a PV2 drop the F-bomb while talking to a female civilian employee, she scolded the young soldier i turned around and just said "Excuse me" and stared at him he snapped to parade rest and apologised then he and his buddies walked off. I apologised to the woman and continued my shopping, i saw the young man a few mins later and talked to him and told him that that language was unacceptable in public and that he should know better. I was not in uniform and he had no idea of my rank he did give me courtesy and seemed to hear what i said. My question to all is how would you have handled this
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Posted 10 y ago
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I can't say nothing. I cuss a lot a well. But in good manner. But I was at lunch the other day with some soldiers and had to tell a PFC to stop saying the F bomb in every sentence. I told him that all those F bombs are filler words and that he should thinks before he speaks.
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Hmm, reading the replies makes you guess your not Infantry. In my day, EVERYBODY dropped the bomb a ton. Had 1 SFC who had perfected it so well that the whole sentence was yada bomb yada bomb yada bomb. Noun, verb, adjective, all rolled into the sentence. If you didn't drop the bomb, people thought you was a prude/goody 2 shoes & had nothing to do w/ you.
But what ever. Guess I'm "uneducated" as I use it all the time.
Guess you need to be De-sensitized to it yet.
Suck it up buttercup!
But what ever. Guess I'm "uneducated" as I use it all the time.
Guess you need to be De-sensitized to it yet.
Suck it up buttercup!
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Maj John Bell
I was in the infantry. And unfortunately I on occasion I swore, around the Marines in the field. Not proud of it.
It does not reflect well on the person using vulgar language. It communicates a higher level of emotion under stress and a lack of circumspection and attention to one's surroundings. Neither of those are redeeming traits from someone I want to groom for leadership. A foul-mouth is not a disqualifier, but it is certainly a discriminator.
It does not reflect well on the person using vulgar language. It communicates a higher level of emotion under stress and a lack of circumspection and attention to one's surroundings. Neither of those are redeeming traits from someone I want to groom for leadership. A foul-mouth is not a disqualifier, but it is certainly a discriminator.
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