Be careful what you wish for…

Remember this piece of nonsense from last week?

It did the rounds of the intertubes, but I declined to comment at the time. To me it was just another example of a fatuous pol with an over-inflated opinion of their self-worth bloviating for the benefit of the punters back home. Sure, her snarky tone disgusted me, but it was hardly a surprise that a Democrap would have a haughty attitude and be dismissive of the military. Until I read an article by Jeffrey Jena over at Big Hollywood that shed an entirely different light on the situation. It seems that in the military if you address someone with only their rank, without including their last name, it is as close to disrespect that you can get to, without being insubordinate. Let him explain,

“Don’t address her only by her rank.” He said, “That would tell her you think she is a substandard officer.” In the military it seems that insulting an officer to his or her face isn’t tolerated very well. Military people, being a resourceful bunch, have developed a system for letting an officer know that they don’t think too much of them. They use the term of address which least fulfills the requirement of military respect which is using only the person’s title.

Sure enough, the video clip showed he addressed her only as “Senator”, as she requested. Heh! You have to love the men and women in the military. In fact, it reminded me of this picture from the archives which was cluelessly released by Hillary Clinton’s camp who failed to realise the significance of the soldier crossing his fingers. It is the survival training code for ‘coercion.”

hillary soldier