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F-Bombs Away! Chris Matthews, Cursing and Character

February 23, 2007 - 1:08 am - by Julian Tepper
Fred Beloit
2007-02-23 05:38:16

I agree a case could be made that today’s women are champion dirty talkers. However, the case would fail. I submit the dirtiest talkers are Marine and Army Drill Instructors (DIs), most especially Marines, who are unconstrained by the presence of females during basic training, the last I heard anyway. In any case Army DIs have in recent years been trained to be sensitive to the presence of female trainees. Even in the male-only, draft-era days, Army DIs were on occasion heard to refer to Army recruits as “gentlemen”. This term was incorrect not only as military parlance, but for the most part in the harsh light of reality.