Warrior Ethos, a product of Task Force Soldier, is the concept of preparing every Soldier to close with and
destroy the enemy when necessary, even if it means doing it with his or her bare
hands.
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"The gas chamber is a beautiful place," said a smiling Sgt. 1st Class Freddie Thompson, 2nd Platoon drill sergeant. "I’ve had privates big and bad, and they’re the biggest sissies in there."
Thompson has been a drill sergeant for more than a year and is in his seventh BCT cycle. He said the gas chamber is one of the top three most memorable events for trainees in basic training, up there with the 40-foot high Treadwell Tower and qualifying with the M-16A1 rifles.
"It’s kind of along the lines of thrill-seeking," he said.
"The majority are kind of excited. It’s something you’re scared of, but
it’s so scary it’s fun, and it’s so fun it’s scary."
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The nature of missions being conducted in Iraq right now requires Soldiers to have close contact with the civilian populace, where a lack of combatives skills can be a major concern, said Maj. Jon Segars, 3rd Brigade training and operations officer
Soldiers are taught to dominate opponents by seizing the initiative in a fight rather than reacting to enemy attacks as most civilian self-defense courses teach.Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Brown, a Combatives School instructor, said the school is using feedback from Soldiers who were deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Balkans through after-action interviews to further develop the curriculum. For example,
the Soldiers felt they weren’t prepared to deal with large numbers of detainees.The course teaches Soldiers to fight, but it also has an indirect effect on the Soldiers, he said.
It also instills aggressiveness and confidence in the Soldier and embodies what Warrior Ethos represents, he said.
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"I am a Warrior and a member of a team.
I stand ready to deploy, engage and destroy the enemies of the United States of America, states the Soldiers Creed. These words will subconsciously remind Soldiers and leaders they have to be comfortable with uncertainty", Simpson said.
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Not interested in directing a research project, rather with
getting results as quickly as they can be made available, Cloy said his office
uses resources from the civilian sector as well as the military.
The future force Soldier is equipped for battle, physically but also spiritually, morally and ethically, Cloy said. This Soldier is able to accept and adapt to cultural as well as environmental differences.
"We research how to teach Soldiers what they believe in Army Values and how those values work in other countries, like Iraq. We don’t teach Soldiers that in basic training:
how to deal with people who think differently," said Cloy. "The human dimension is cognitive, psychological, physiological and spiritual. It’s an attitude, a warfighter attitude. That’s why we say it’s ‘from the skin in.’"http://www-tradoc.army.mil/pao/Web_specials/WarriorEthos/036304.htm-------------------------------------------------------
Fifty percent of Drill Sergeant School is conducted in classrooms. There, candidates must learn not only what their training must produce but what priority to give motivation to fight.
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The training has made Chan ready, he said. "The warrior in me was dormant, and it was awakened by my drill sergeants. I will fight for my country," he said.
Chan joined the Army, he said, because three of his friends and a cousin were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center Sept. 11, 2001.
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This is a series about change.
How a
17-year-old from Nettleton, "Mis’sippi," is changed from a boy to a man in less than one-fourth the amount of time it will take for his unborn child to grow from an egg to a baby in his fiancee’s womb.
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"Three hundred thousand Soldiers are deployed right now and doing things not just in Iraq and Afghanistan, but all over the globe. It’s incredible," Schoomaker said. "And these people are operating on intent. I’ve been there, looked them in the eye. And what I recognize is what I’ve seen many, many times over: a degree of will,
the ability to kill and the kinds of things we have got to be able to do on the battlefield to win."
The Army’s plan is to have Warrior Ethos totally embedded into every Soldier by Fiscal Year 2006. This includes making it part of basic and AIT for new Soldiers, and potentially part of the Noncommissioned Officer Evaluation System and Officer Evaluation System as well.
By implementing Warrior Ethos worldwide, the Army will enhance the warrior spirit in the world’s greatest fighting force, enabling Soldiers to be more ready to fight and win anytime, in any conditions, anywhere in the world
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