Soldiers have been barred from using terms such as ‘lads’ when referring to one another as the army adopts gender equality drive.
According to local media outlets, troops from the 22 Engineer Regiment were boldly told to refrain from using words like lads as they believed it could possibly lead to occasions of offense.
In addition, news reports spoke about how the army’s latest gender equality drive also has bans on terms such as mankind and sportsmanship. As far as the term lads are concerned, the word has a high probability of causing offense, even under those circumstances where no females are present, confirmed reports.
Today, the army is getting remodeled as a gender-neutral organization and many feel such changes are of the utmost essence.
In the same way, experts confirmed how millions of pounds were recently spent upon creating gender-neutral facilities such as bathrooms at Sandhurst’s Royal Military Academy as well as other major bases and training centers. Moreover, such bold moves are reportedly due to the effects of the Ministry of Defence join equality drive as well as inclusion unit, which many refer to as Jedi.
But as far as the military operations are concerned, it’s very fair to term this one in particular as ‘tanked’.
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This particular ban on the term lads has come into play as a part of set orders by the 22 Engineer Regiment’s sergeant major for all types of troops that took part in online meetings.point 157 | He particularly informed the troops about how standards and values were never given priority and had received plenty of slacking off, ever since the adoption of Zoom calls as well as Microsoft Teams meetings for conducting military business.point 361 | 1
In addition, recent reports also spoke about how bans on women serving in combat units were also lifted in the year 2016, and ever since the year 2018, women have been able to apply for a variety of roles in the military.
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