What is the purpose of the "no profanity" policy in WLC?

I don't know when the NCO Academys were started. I attended the NCO Academy at Ft. Hood in about 1959 or 1960. Even then we were taught that effective leaders did not need to use profanity when leading troops, so I never used it in my 26+ years. It wasn't necessary. I had the respect of the officers and troops in both my battalions I served as CSM. I also served on the brigade as well as division staffs.....no profanity was needed.

Well said and simply said. No muss; no fuss. I'm pleased so many at all levels have a clear understanding of why the profligate use of profanity is just a bad leadership practice. Believe it or not there are soldiers that are uncomfortable and offended by such language. You aren't impressing them; you are turning them off. If you don't understand that it is time you woke up.
Great answer, SGT Antoine!

I agree with you, COL!

COL John Power - Thank you sir.

SSG Brooks, you know as well as I do some females can cuss just as well as a male soldier.. I tried not to cuss as much but we will see how long this last.

I really think this is just part of downsizing. When you trim the fat and there is none left making distinctions between who should stay or go becomes that much harder so it is coming down to either upsetting people enough they get out on their own or holding them accountable for the violating the next new rule that gets dreamed up and this is just the start.

I can stand some cussing but the F bomb loaded conversation I could not and would have no problem letting him know in words he could clearly understand.

When I was a teenager I probably used every word known at the time. As I grew older (and I hope wiser) I ceased that behavior. Today it is extremely rare and if I were subjected to participation in an F-bomb laden conversation I would cringe and excuse myself. Later I would explain it in no uncertain terms, even to a boss. I love having the freedom to do that; others probably don't and that is too bad. I consider profanity-laced berating of someone a form of harassment.

"By forcing females into Infantry, Rangers, Special Forces ........" Excuse me, she said with as much composure as possible - sir I feel you are rated for a cuss put down - but I'll try to be a lady about it and say, "You stink."

Facts hurt sometimes, SSG.
I have no problems with females doing anything they are capable of doing as long as the standards are met and not changed to allow for those who are not capable. If being an artilleryman requires the loader to hump 100 lb shells for 30 minutes straight is the standard, then in order to allow a female into the MOS the standard is changed to 50lb rounds, obviously the standard has been changed for the purpose of putting her there.
I think your attitude is misplaced about females and their capabilities, especially in combat arms, special forces.
As Clint Eastwood once said, Ya gotta know your limitations.

sorry, but the army's mission is changing. the army is being used for policing and for COIN operations. that means taking out the enemy to the local chai shop.

I don't have a problem with the idea there's a time and place for everything. Out in the Field is one thing, bringing the Field into a mixed gender professional setting is another. I do have a problem with those who can't tell the difference and conduct themselves accordingly. So does UCMJ.

when i was younger and in the field i had a "potty mouth" according to my mom. But, as i got older and wiser i learned other words that could equal the same thing but not be offensive.

Apologies, perhaps some of you did not or cannot see the frame of reference in my vignette nor the overarching theme in my message due to a tunnel vision on "professional language" discourse. Perhaps I should clarify... I have a foul mouth. That is to say, I have a disproportionate use of verbiage that my Grandmother would have been forced to take unbridled umbrage over should I speak that way at the Family Sunday dinner table, and in that environment that punctuative language would have been unnecessary and counter productive. That said, my grandmother would NEVER have been stupid enough to TEACH someone to emplace a Claymore mine with the words FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY facing towards themselves. And should she have made such an error she would not have hidden her NEGLIGENCE behind the bullshit of a diatribe on how language is more important than ACTIONS. I may not speak "professionally" at all times but I damn sure carry my responsibility for teaching, training, molding, and mentoring those soldiers around me to the standards that will keep them alive and accomplish missions like millstone around my neck. And I will not now nor ever apologize for asking an NCO or Officer what the FUCK they are doing training soldiers like that. I stand by my product and that is competent trained soldiers of any rank and any MOS that I have worked with or for, I have been a trainer for 20 years and I stand by the philosophy of its not the language its the message and the RESULTS. Besides, I overhead a SSG say recently, " oh hell, Top is pissed. You can tell 'cuz he's all quiet and shit." Great news for me, she gets it and I now have a subordinate who is going to correct the deficiency without me uttering a word offensively peppered with profanity or not.

1LT James Clarke - 1LT For The Record: I was neither inner city ( more Country club and prep school) nor country boy ( Ft Hood broke me of that however, due to the unavoidable excess of Country Music for which I have acquired a taste for) , and I did drop out of college to join the Infantry. Best decision ever!