THE INNOCENCE OF THE WARRIOR
THE INNOCENCE OF THE WARRIOR
There is something almost sacred about the innocence of a warrior.
That sounds strange because warriors do terrible, adult things. They run toward gunfire, kill, watch friends die. They sign a blank check knowing the nation may someday cash it for everything.
But beneath all of that violence is an extraordinary act of faith:
The one beside me is my brother or sister. My leaders will tell me the truth. My country will judge me by what I do.
That faith is the mortar holding the formation together.
And then along comes an ideology telling the Soldier to inspect his brother before trusting him. What race is he? What sex? Who is privileged? Who is oppressed? Which grievance belongs to whom?
That is not harmless HR nonsense. Its acid poured directly into the bloodstream of a military.
A foxhole has no room for competing identities. When the rounds start cracking overhead, nobody wants an oppressor or an oppressed person beside him. He wants an American who will stay when every animal instinct says run.
I gave these ideas a hearing once (DEI). Many of us did. Then we asked questions. And THAT was when the mask slipped.
Questions were met with accusations. Skepticism became moral failure. Careers were threatened over disagreements that supposedly belonged to an ideology of “inclusion.”
Funny kind of inclusion, isn’t it?
Here is what I finally understood: an idea that requires intimidation to survive has already lost the argument.
The warrior deserves protection from that poison because his trust is too valuable to gamble with. He has already agreed to give you his body. You don’t also get to crawl inside his mind and teach him to distrust the people he may have to die beside.
The enemy spends fortunes trying to fracture American units. Imagine doing it to ourselves for free?
The warrior’s innocence is believing that when the ramp drops, we are one people. Any ideology that teaches him otherwise has no place anywhere near the formation.
Stay vigilant. And remember your Oath. Division has no place in our force.
Jun 24, 2020 1:06:33 PM EDT
Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: f4ac89 No. 9731054
Jun 24, 2020 1:04:50 PM EDT
Anonymous ID: a4abe1 No. 9731023
>>9730975
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God. WWG1WGA
>>9731023
TAKE THE OATH.
Mission forward.
Q