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Guest post by JAGC follows.<\/span><\/p>\n F&$cknuckles. That “word” is the source for the latest controversy in military-oriented social media circles. Apparently, a company commander at Fort Benning got into a Twitter tiff with an Air Force officer. One thing led to another and “f$&knuckles” happened. The Army captain ultimately got banned from Twitter. Online mourning ensued.<\/p>\n Now, I’m not a social media guy. But I recently completed two books and a literary agent advised me to start using Twitter. Soon, I was introduced to a world of anonymous military members–mostly staff officers–who apparently post on Twitter All. The. Time. It’s amazing anything gets done.<\/p>\n To be fair, their snark is well placed. It’s a good mix of male and female Soldiers with a wide array of experience and knowledge. There’s everything from military historians to PAOs. And of course the Fort Benning company commander of f$&knuckles fame. Their pointed (and numerous) observations of military life is mostly spot on. I’ve even learned some things about military history. They’re also kind of funny.<\/p>\n Which brings me back to CPT f$&knuckles. I believe the online argument started over another officer’s vaguely controversial critique of an unnamed NCO. Soon, the venerable Army WTF! Moments picked up on things. And since this is Twitter and the military, you know there’s a barracks lawyer somewhere in this story. Well, the barracks lawyer shows up and issues a strongly worded (and super wrong) assessment about a UCMJ violation. That only escalated the online tension, such as it was.<\/p>\n With digital blood pressure boiling, the Air Force guy ranted about something. The Army Captain retorted in kind. The Air Force guy got even angrier. So the Army Captain called the Air Force guy “f$&knuckles.” Air Force guy reported him to the Twitter police. Bam! Banned from Twitter. An anonymous LTC even broke the news.<\/p>\n Why should any of us care about this? We shouldn’t. It’s stupid.<\/p>\n But on Twitter, this is thing. The mildly-offended military Twitter masses argue that Twitter is being extremely hypocritical and wrong. Indeed, Nazis and all sorts of shady creatures’ inflammatory remarks are allowed to troll around on Twitter. There’s even apparently several guys with variations of the “f$&knuckle” moniker. Yet CPT f$&knuckles got banned. In that sense, their complaints have merit.<\/p>\n But in the grander scheme, CPT f$&knuckles will probably just do what others do and start a new account. But is there a military bias with the people running Twitter? After all, the Captain got suspended for calling a guy “f$&knuckles” while there are stories abound of others purportedly wanting to “kill the Jews” getting to keep their accounts. Or perhaps the real question is, why do people keep using Twitter? Like quicksand, it looks innocuous enough. But once you step right into it, you’re stuck. And it makes people really angry. Why keep going back?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/JAGC-20181130-B-Rev-01.jpg\")
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