Category: Spartan Pledge

Mending the Warfighter Community: A Return to the ‘Centric Force’

February 6, 2023
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Commentary I don’t think we see ourselves as victims ever but we get labeled as “damaged” so we are constantly fighting distortions and that’s rough. Damaged can mean anything within the entire spectrum of “abnormal” and that’s never good. What we are dealing with is somewhat of an identity issue. We go to war and…

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The American Warfighter: Evolved and Unbroken

February 1, 2023
American WarfighterArchivedBattlefieldsOpinionSpartan PledgeThe Havok JournalVeterans
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Commentary To change for the better in order to survive is to evolve. Failure is often due to a failure to adapt. Everything that evolves changes to survive and we’ve evolved from the people we were born into the people we’ve needed to be. Warfighters become their evolved self at a record pace. If warfighters…

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A Wounded Warrior Reflects: 2 Years in Purgatory and 10 Years of Steps

January 26, 2023
ArchivedBoone CutlerCoffee or DieEpoch TimesOpinionSpartan PledgeThe Havok JournalVeteransWounded Warrior
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Commentary Not a drop. Not an ounce. Not a molecule. Not a bit of comfort. The war didn’t make me feel that way, but I felt that way after the war. The hospital and the two years of Starship Reed purgatory didn’t help, then the zombie dope follow-up finished me. Dead man walking. Dead but…

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