Friday, June 3, 2016

"Warfighter"--- Bleech!

"Warfighter" is one of the terms that the think-tankers and the boobs at Ft. Fumble have come up with in this current cycle of wars.

Personally, I believe that anyone who uses that term is either doing so under duress or they are at least a borderline mental defective.[1] The term, more and more, seems to apply to everyone in uniform, ie, "servicemen". There doesn't seem to be much of a distinction in how this douchey new term used. Between trigger-pullers, fobbits and REMFs, all seem to fall under the term "warfighter" from time to time.

Bill Mauldin came up with the term "garritroopers" for what would now be "fobbits": Soldiers too far forward to wear ties and too far back to get shot. But I digress.

"Warfighter" is a kludgy term. There is a far better term available: Warrior.

By calling them "warriors", we could also stop using the imbecilic word "operators," a term that better describes people who run switchboards[2] and machine tools.[3] Which would be an additional benefit.

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[1] The term I would have used before seems to upset people, nowadays.
[2] Go look it up.
[3] Back when we made a lot of stuff in this country.
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4 comments:

  1. OldAFSarge6/03/2016 9:58 AM

    My company (bloodsucking defense contractor) makes obsessive use of that term.

    I hate it with a passion. Can't we just support our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines?

    Fort Fumble, world's largest insane asylum.

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  2. Joe6/03/2016 4:16 PM

    I really don't like "warrior" in the context of the US armed forces. "Warrior" goes in a sentence after "Visigoth" or "barbarian" or "Sioux". That's what adolescents dream of being; it's an ISIS recruiting term. It's the antithesis of what makes a modern military succeed.

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  3. 33836/04/2016 6:36 PM

    Bill Mauldin also called CIB awardees the "benevolent and protective brotherhood of them what has been shot at". There should be an equivalent for all services; there is what sort of close I have seen a Naval Orificer wear, but isn't.
    Combat soldier. Combat Marine. Combat sailor. Combat airman.
    Combat medic.

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  4. Evil Brad6/09/2016 11:56 AM

    Whatever happened to "soldiers"? I always thought that was pretty cool...

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