Is our military…

[bluenova]

Can you give direct examples that you have witnessed? As an ex serviceman I can tell you that whilst there are some (Very few) incidents of fuckwittery in the main the lads I served with were exceptional brave people.

As for "Questioning" your superiors, it's the army it wouldn't be effective if the ranks questioned everything they didn't agree with, indecisiveness would cost lives. Again where have you seen this behaviour?

I need to be a little careful as I don't want to break any confidences, and I certainly wouldn't suggest anything that contradicts them being brave. While a lot of the sexist stuff was clearly intended, the racism, homophobia, disablist comments were more casual. Ironically it appears that a lot of the disablist stuff comes out when people are aware that they maybe shouldn't use race/sexuality as a slur.

My comment about questioning was also meant to acknowledge the fact that it's not a culture where you can challenge. Many of the issues I saw were used when people were being told off, or "encouraged", and I totally understand that it makes sense to do what you're told without second guessing everything - hence why the responsibility rests with the people giving out the orders.

I wouldn't suggest these are bad people at all, I was just amazed that the culture is still so dated - and from discussions with more senior officers, I appreciate that the will is there from the top, and it's a work in progress, in a culture that's clearly a lot more difficult to change than most.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

Isn't a little bit of racism a necessary element of a military sent half-way round the world to fight "backwards people of different races"?

 

[Blue Maverick]

They have Sencos in the military?

No idea what your on about!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

No idea what your on about!

A SENCo, or Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator, is the school teacher who is responsible for assessing, planning and monitoring the progress of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

 

[Blue Maverick]

A SENCo, or Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator, is the school teacher who is responsible for assessing, planning and monitoring the progress of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

I didn’t type that I put SNCO

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I need to be a little careful as I don't want to break any confidences, and I certainly wouldn't suggest anything that contradicts them being brave. While a lot of the sexist stuff was clearly intended, the racism, homophobia, disablist comments were more casual. Ironically it appears that a lot of the disablist stuff comes out when people are aware that they maybe shouldn't use race/sexuality as a slur.

My comment about questioning was also meant to acknowledge the fact that it's not a culture where you can challenge. Many of the issues I saw were used when people were being told off, or "encouraged", and I totally understand that it makes sense to do what you're told without second guessing everything - hence why the responsibility rests with the people giving out the orders.

I wouldn't suggest these are bad people at all, I was just amazed that the culture is still so dated - and from discussions with more senior officers, I appreciate that the will is there from the top, and it's a work in progress, in a culture that's clearly a lot more difficult to change than most.

I’m still very shocked that you seen such open behaviour. I asked if you had reported this but you must’ve missed my question?

 

[johnnytapia]

A SENCo, or Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator, is the school teacher who is responsible for assessing, planning and monitoring the progress of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).

The SENCO has day-to-day responsibility for the operation of SEN policy and co- ordination of specific provision made to support individual pupils with SEN.

It’s Class Teacher, as defined by the Teacher Standards, who is responsible for the planning, assessment and progress of the SEN children under their aegis.

As Senco it’s my job to ensure the teachers are effectively planning and assessing- and in turn, ensuring SEND pupils make appropriate progress. It’s also my job to advise on suitable strategies and, where appropriate, to seek other professional support (EP SALT OT etc).

It’s fuck all to do with the Army by the way, but think we’ve established that!

 

[blueinsa]

British forces are in my humble opinion the best in the world.

We should be rightly proud of them.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

I suspect our military has been diluted down like everything else in this country. We used to have the best police, healthcare fire service, society.

Its all gone to shit because we have too many people who like to fix things that aren't broken.... brexiteers, politicians, hate media etc etc, even like Southgate haters...

....they all tell us everything is shit and that it all needs to be changed to what they want. And then they replace it with shit.

So I am guessing some smart politician with his Smart objectives will come up with a way of "improving the armed forces" by cutting funding.

Just my impression over the last 40 odd years

 

[Zabbasbeard]

That’s really sad to hear, but being racist doesn’t necessarily render someone to be irredeemably bad. Racism is illogical, unwarranted and wrong. But so are lots of things. Doesn’t necessarily mean that a racist person is poisonous or malign. Life is far more complicated than that. Four legs good, two legs bad?

That maybe but when you've been physically attacked, racially abused, harassed and been on the end of other criminal activity from racists, you might be forgiven for thinking those people are poisonous and malicious.