Army gears up for life without its 'buddies'

[Ray]

I think you people are totally out of sync with the reality.

I have just returned from my unit's Golden Jubilee celebrations. A buddy was assigned.

He is operationally deployed, but he rings us up every week to find out how were are doing.

Our interaction with him was barely 5 days!

You have a totally incorrect idea of what is the relationship that a buddy has with his officer and vice versa.

 

[Ray]

When will Army dump RIA legacy You bloody civilians which during British RAJ was You bloody Indians?

I fail to understand your bile.

I am sure civilians are great and are very competent.

I just hope that they don't requisition the Army for all and sundry assistance like rescuing children who fall into unlined well. I am sure the civil authorities are good enough to do this task.

Just a point of how misinformed people are. Buddies don't have to iron shirts because there are washermen in the WET and the clothes are sent to him. Every officer possess a washing machine and so one would not give the clothes to even a washerman since he would wash it the old way - beat the living hell of the clothes to clean the sweat and dirt!

And the washerman is not for free. It is charged through the Mess Bill so that none can default in the payment either if it were one to one!

 

[SPIEZ]

Finally the army get's rid of the manfriday's

 

[pmaitra]

Why are they called "batmen," whose singular would be, I presume, "batman?"

Why not use terms like, peon, helper, assistant, aide-de-camp, etc.?

Also, if "batman," why not "superman," "spiderman," "he-man," etc.?

 

[Ray]

Why are they called "batmen," whose singular would be, I presume, "batman?"

Why not use terms like, peon, helper, assistants, aide-de-camp, etc.?

Also, if "batman," why not "superman," "spiderman," "he-man," etc.?

The term 'Batman' is derived from the obsolete bat, "packsaddle" (from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum) + man.

He is an assistance and so he is called a Sahayak.

And now, Americanised to 'Buddy'.

To be frank, he is better than Superman, Batman and Spiderman rolled in one!