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Redleg

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4. This whole "warrior" bullshit has gone too far.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 15, 2026, 10:26 AM

Thursday

Same for the phrase "war fighters." While I understand that our men and women in the military do fight in wars, battles, and other actions, I prefer the the usual terms "soldier" or "Marine" or "airman" or "sailor." All these service members can still be bad-asses without being called warriors. Plus "soldier" implies membership of a state-sanctioned military, with rules, oaths, and obligations to go along with membership.

Perhaps I am too sensitive to this stuff, having been a soldier once, and young.

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