ANGRY GIANT STEPPING ON SOLDIERS CODE

Warriors came from a specific class of people, those whose lives were dedicated to violence – not violence for a specific end, but often just violence for violence’s sake. Warriors in single combat – note that Achilles and Hector are alone in this image, as warriors fight alone.

ANGRY GIANT STEPPING ON SOLDIERS CODE

Warriors are chaotic, tribal, and lawless – often times only governed by a loose code of conduct. Warriors also fight with an overriding passion, often an undisciplined one – “overreaching” is the way that Homer often describes it – taking that one extra step that ends in disaster. Homer made it very clear in the Iliad that it was the mark of the great warriors to fight in single combat, have glorious deaths, and names that lived in eternity, while the lower classes of Greek soldiery died in the mud, together, and no one remembered their names. They fought for glory – and mainly themselves. The connotation of the warrior is often of one who fights alone – think Achilles or Hector or Agamemnon, or any of the classical Greek warriors. Warriors don’t have tasks, because tasks are antithetical to the undisciplined and chaotic warrior.

Warriors don’t transition, because warriors are part of a class. This word has even seeped into our Soldier’s Creed, with, “I am a warrior and a member of a team.” Another part of the creed talks about remaining “proficient in my warrior tasks and drills.”īut there’s a problem with all this “warrior” rhetoric warriors are not soldiers. Soldiers injured in combat or in training go to “Warrior Transition Units.” Thankfully, training for new non-commissioned officers is no longer the “Warrior Leader Course,” but the “Basic Leader Course.” We in the Army managed to somehow get a “ warrior ethos” into our lexicon. Or maybe “hero,” usually used sarcastically when referring to basic trainees. If you’ve been in the Army longer than five minutes, you’ve probably been called “warrior” already.

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