Pentagon to Marines: Stop farting

[Locutus]

Marine Corps Times is a family newspaper and we only rarely have offensive language in our stories.


But this week the word “fart” appears in a story I wrote about the importance of trust between Marines and the Afghan national army soldiers they work with.


I didn’t want to write this little blog entry about farts. It’s not even on my beat. But my colleague Dan Lamothe, whose byline you have seen here quite often, shamed me into it.


“You owe it to all Marines,” he told me.


So here’s the news: audible farting has been banned for some Marines downrange because it offends the Afghans.


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[petros]

I'd be upset if I was stuck in a tank with someone who eats too many damn onions.

 

[EagleSmack]

Good luck with that!

 

[Ron in Regina]

Wow....so the Afghans don't produce audible farts either, so as not
to offend other Afghans? I wonder what their modus operandi is?
The silent but deadly version? Do Afghans have a protein rich,
but vegetable poor diet to achieve this?

 

[petros]

Wow....so the Afghans don't produce audible farts either, so as not
to offend other Afghans? I wonder what their modus operandi is?
The silent but deadly version? Do Afghans have a protein rich,
but vegetable poor diet to achieve this?

I'd say it's more like two terms used to gauge the quiet fart in the pokey.. Provincial and Federal.

 

[Mowich]

Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'put a cork in it'.