Our Duty as Operators

29 Aug 07

I was today sent a photo of a young lad in the UK. He was posing with a Thompson Submachine Gun (actually a deactivated model). The lad's trigger finger is solidly in the "register" position, not wrapped about the trigger as one might expect from an American-television-watching, clueless, modern youth.

As it turns out, this lad is a nephew of one of our UK students who comes over to CONUS every year to train with us. Although I've never personally worked with this lad, his uncle has, and, while never actually having fireda shot from a functional gun, the kid already has a solid foundation in correct gun handling!

It is exciting indeed to contemplate that we have positively influenced aspiring warriors, even ones we've never met. This lad, along with others his age, using skills gleaned from us, may be called upon to defend the Empire one day, maybe a lot sooner than anyone thinks!

The body of knowledge and skills that we teach resides in a Priesthood that exists both in and out of the military, in and out of law-enforcement. It has been gradually acquired and refined over many years, and at great price! As modern-day Operators, it is our privilege to both live it and teach it. So great an honor is at once our joy and duty!

"The pervasive expansiveness of the (Roman) Empire which we see today did not come about as a result of accident or precipitous good fortune. These Legionaries do not sit around congratulating themselves in the wake of every victory, nor are they idle in peacetime. Rather, they are constantly training and refining their warrior skills, so as to be ready at a moment'snotice. Indeed, they seem to have been born with weapons in their hands!"

Josephus Flavius, 90AD

"The stone soldier grows younger and slimmer each year! Wasp-waisted, he casually holds his rifle and perpetually muses through lush bangs, cascading down his forehead."

/John