Are you a Sheep, Wolf, or Sheepdog

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:13:30 -0500

LTC Grossman Asked this question and I feel that it will always hold true. With the current climate on the hill I ask you what category are you<div><br></div><div>http://mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html<br></div><div><br></div><div class="pta-link-card"><div class="pta-link-card-content"><div class="pta-link-card-title"><a target="_blank" href="http://mwkworks.com/onsheepwolvesandsheepdogs.html">On Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs - Dave Grossman</a></div><div class="pta-link-card-description">

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Response by SrA Brian Walker made Jan 19 at 2014 11:35 PM

SrA Brian Walker — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:35:18 -0500

I love that whole portion of "On Killing", and he revisits the ideas in his other book "On Combat". I would have to say that I am definitely a sheepdog, although I did not become one until after my world came apart. I was active duty on 9/11, a fresh trainee from air force basic training waiting to start training as a weather forecaster. Then the attacks happened and I realized for the first time that I could find myself deployed and have to actually take a life. I had joined because I saw it as my duty to my country, and I would be able to us my GI Bill afterwards to pay for school. I never deployed, but after I got out of the AF I ended up working in security and had several coworkers attacked, and I was even shot at. I have to realize that the only person who could actually guarantee my safety was me, and it took me a long time to do so.

Long live the sheepdogs, we hunt what goes bump in the night.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Jan 19 at 2014 11:46 PM

SSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 23:46:18 -0500

I like cat, I would be a Leopard. And I will not change my spots.. much..