They are Fab-U-Lous

21 Replies to “They are Fab-U-Lous”

1. Pink socks and buzz cuts for everyone!!!!

2. The only difference between the “new” soldiers and Monty Python lumberjacks is that the soldiers get to wear uniforms.

   1. There’s a Monty Python sketch of gay soldiers doing drill,
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2jgrGtiYHE

      1. Everything that Monty Python did as humor is now reality.
         “Why do you want to be a woman Stan?”

   2. I think the Python skit “marching up and down in the square’ just about covers it.

3. So then are they going to reduce the height and weight allowances for men so that they don’t appear to be bigger and stronger? Asking for a friend. I’m sure there are a lot of ethnically diverse people in Toronto who are familiar with firearms that could be recruited. They even know how to acquire firearms easily without all the bureaucratic red tape.

4. Shut’er down. What’s the point in having a military in this post nation state?

   That being said.

   If push came to shove the government would send them to a politically correct war with the outdated equipment, and they would be slaughtered. That’s happened repeatedly throughout history to nations that neglected their forces in peacetime.

   1. What’s the point?

      They can still learn pancake flipping as a skill, as well as filling sandbags too.

      Draining a 26er a day though, has become a lost military skill.

5. You mean they’re NOT introducing the mao suit?! Or does that hafta wait for the actual takeover?!

6. And all this time I thought functional, professional attire was the thing.

7. I would think this might have a negative impact on women wanting to join. Now they might get more trannies, so maybe that’s the point.

8. They will all ether need to look like butch lesbians or else wear high heels and skirts ala Klinger.

   They would look pretty scary in combat.

9. The opposing forces would be laughing so hard that they could easily be overcome by a battalion of Canadians dressed up in Trudeau Tutu s.

10. “Men and women in uniform are currently subject to separate dress codes that include the types of clothing they can wear as well as hair styles and other aspects of their appearance.”

    So… what’s the definiton of “woman” here? Any biologists in the CF to answer that one? Personally I think the female uniforms were so badly designed and ugly that gender-neutral anything will be an improvement. Hopefully the men won’t have to wear high heels. But if General Whatsherface thinks it’s going to improve recruitment… I got news for her (xir? they didn’t specify pronouns). I’m told they loosened standards before (beards, tattoos, haircuts, garrison dress, turbans) and that did exactly fuck all to improve recruitment. If you’re not willing to go the distance on a haircut, what are the chances you’ll bust your butt to pass basic training? They have been begging women to join for decades, promoting many to high position, holding women’s month events and Women in aviation shingdings… and that made zero difference.
    When the typical recruiting poster feature women (there are always 3 individuals: a woman, a bipoc and maybe a white dude) the woman is alway featured in some kind of combat arms/pilot gear. Guess what? Women in the civilian sector compose about 10% of those jobs, just like in the military. Maybe 90% of women don’t find hauling a rucksack up a hill in the Hindu Kush, or feeding shells in a howitzer all day or flying a 40 year old jet an attractive career choice. Now if they let women know that the military is also in need of dental assistants, clerks, lawyers and doctors – career women choose overwhelmingly and willingly in the civilian sector – by changing the tack of recruitment, that would improve the female intake. But what they really want is women in “non-traditional roles”, so they can show how progressive the outfit is, and by extention, its leadership. Mind you, I’m not talking about women that are in the military, I’m talking about the civilian busybodies that set those “inclusivity” goals. Those one would never be caught dead in the Armed Forces.

11. Every recent Canadian veteran myself included would never send their children to serve. Canada just isn’t worth your life and they treat you as such. Imagine dying for some Torontonian. I’d rather us be ruled by any other nation.

    1. Our 20 something son wanted to join the military 3 years ago. He was all amped up to become a black ops/Seal type warrior.
       When he showed us the source material he was basing it on, we had to let him down gently. He was viewing US military recruitment.
       We told him, outright, the Canadian military was a sad joke, a parody of a real fighting force. As well, I have a couple acquaintances that were military, and left in their mid-20s, also disillusioned by the joke of a military.
       Our son made the right decision.

12. I’m just glad I retired before the nonsense took hold. A grunt in a ponytail or tampons in the trenches are just too much to imagine.

    1. +++A

13. They’re going to ” increase diversity” by making everyone dress the same? Do they know what the word means?

    1. Good one.

14. Are Tampons™ the new grenades ? Instead of throwing your guns when out of ammo, throw your high heals ? Money saving items to further the J & J health care plans.