New stupid video scandal in the Bundeswehr

[The Avon Lady]

Originally Posted by GlobalExplorer

Nice one AL :rotfl:

Maybe I just don't understand your sense of humor. :hmm:

[CCIP]

:rotfl:

That is actually funny.

Now that I've seen it, I really don't see what the fuss was all about. There's such a lack of intensity or any sort of genuine malice in that video, I honestly can't see how it could be considered hugely hateful or anything. It's just dumb.

I agree. I think it was just a bad joke on the instructor's part.

[GlobalExplorer]

I really don't get it. A corporal has to be funny once in a while .. what's the big deal?

This "scandal" is just another pointless episode in a long streak of P.C., anti-military bull**** we have to take.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by GlobalExplorer

I really don't get it. A corporal has to be funny once in a while .. what's the big deal?

I don´t get it either. The video is totally harmless.

[Yahoshua]

The media is running out of brain cells.......

[Smaragdadler]

Wow. That was just spectacular unspectacular.
Da wurde nur mal wieder "ne Mücke zum Elefanten" gemacht.
Go on - nothing to see here...

[NefariousKoel]

Originally Posted by GlobalExplorer

I really don't get it. A corporal has to be funny once in a while .. what's the big deal?

This "scandal" is just another pointless episode in a long streak of P.C., anti-military bull**** we have to take.

Yep. Slow news day and the politically correct media needed a target. Sickening isn't it?

[GlobalExplorer]

Not sickening - rather detrimental to its cause. Making such a fuss about that kind of juvenile stuff takes a lot of credibility away from the myth: that the Bundeswehr is the major refuge for neonazis in germany.

I mean which army isn't in leaning to the political right? The Bundeswehr is certainly one of the tamest armies in the world, an achievement of a hyper sensitive media.

I actually laughed when the recruit asked "Wo muss ich nochmal .. ?", cause I thought the purpose of the video was to ridicule the Bundeswehr - which it perfectly did. A complete dumb**** with ridiculous camouflage frantically fumbling on his MG - against soldiers like this, even the Swiss Army could conquer Germany any day

[DeePsix501]

These news hype are indeed sickening. I'm sure someone has said somthing offensive to someone in any military atleast once. On further reading about this in American news sites, it makes me even more sad the way Sharpton and Jesse Jackson hide in the bushes and wait for someone to say somthing that can be taken as racism against black people. Then they pop out and demand that person be fired from their job and publicly humiliated.

I just wish the news reported news. Is that so much to ask?

[Heibges]

This goes along the lines of "more careers are ended in the O/NCO's Club, than are ever ended in the Field."

When I went through US Army Basic Training in 1988, my Drill Sergeant was singing that oldie but goodie, "See the Lady in Red." In some adjacent parkinglot at Fort Knox, there happened to be a lady in a red dress. Two hours later my Drill Sergeant was standing tall before the man, an was no longer allowed to sing cadences.

[Gizzmoe]

Originally Posted by GlobalExplorer

I actually laughed when the recruit asked "Wo muss ich nochmal .. ?", cause I thought the purpose of the video was to ridicule the Bundeswehr - which it perfectly did. A complete dumb**** with ridiculous camouflage frantically fumbling on his MG - against soldiers like this, even the Swiss Army could conquer Germany any day

You sound like you´ve never been a recruit. I had zero previous experience with firearms, just like 99.9% of my comrades, and I was nervous and totally clueless the first times I used the MG, assault rifle, pistol and RPG. Just like the guy in the video.

[TteFAboB]

So telling the rookie that an Ottoman square-formation of innacurate musketeers or lancers is walking towards him puts no greater pressure on his neck than a platoon of care-bears would, while a black van of death full of scary armed guys stopping right in front of him is a little more motivational. That's why I suppose the BBC has an example of a sarge talking about blacks but not about Turks. The only example with Turks would be Turkey shoot, be it the old Ottomans or an unarmed angry mob of young rioters, unless the guy wants to cause a diplomatic incident and go direct for the "there are Turkish soldiers from the Turkish armed forces right in front of you, now shoot them".

[Skybird]

I don't have a clue what you are aiming at. as a matter of fact more and more of the young ones over here do not even know anymore who the Ottomans were. we are lucky if they can read and write without too many mistakes, and know how to calculate divisions and multiplications, and maybe in sports can walk backward in a straight line and without stumbling over their own feet. Fact!

[GlobalExplorer]

New developments: Today in the morning news there was a side note that the sarge was fired from the bundeswehr.

Of course the verdict was like "the instructor who was filmed during racist practices has been immediately removed from duty", so the public will be pleased .. as if it mattered that he was just making a stupid, harmless joke.

"Now you're in the Bronx and you're attacked by three tall black afromaericans. For every burst you will shout 'mother****er!' "

I guess you hear ten times more racist remarks from any black drill instructors in the Us Army or elsewhere.


http://www.stern.de/politik/deutschl...er/587138.html

[TteFAboB]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I don't have a clue what you are aiming at.

Let's start over. The "africanamericans" need to be tall, so that excludes shorties. Is this why some have complained? The short felt insulted? Former sarge here didn't had this kind of guy in mind:



More like:



But not as nice.

He's not a racist, he's a heightist.

The rest is a side issue dealing with the pretext of using Muslims/Turks as targets. Even if the former sarge here is a racist, he can still hide behind the tall-scary thing. But what excuse would he have to use a Turk? That was all.