GWOT V - The Scout-Soldier's Creed
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drewkittyGWOT V - The Scout-Soldier's Creed
[Adapted from the Untied Snakes Ranger Creed.]
I am a California Republic scout-soldier. I volunteered to put my body between the people of California and those who would harm them. I am a scout. It is my duty to observe and report, as the eyes and ears of the Republic, wherever I may be I am a soldier. It is my duty to disrupt, harass, hinder and destroy the enemies of the Republic by fire and maneuver. I respect the tension between these duties, and will avoid or give battle according to the needs of the California Republic, always holding her safety, and her honor, higher than my own.
The Republic and her People demand and expect that as a California scout-soldier, I will shoot, move and communicate better than any other soldier, whether friend or foe. I strive to be an expert in any weapon, an operator of any means of locomotion, and a technician for any method of communication that serves the mission. Yet if I am unarmed and barefoot, even stark naked, I am deadly to California's foes.
Never shall I fail the people of the Republic of California. Nor shall I fail my comrades, in arms and also those who forbidden arms, who share my oath to our People. Only the mission can make me leave a comrade behind.
I will keep myself mentally alert, physically strong and morally resilient. I will shoulder more than my share of the task whatever it may be, one-hundred-percent and then some. I carry the burdens that our beloved dead can no longer carry. Yet the burden is lighter because I carry my brothers, my sisters and my kinfolk.
I am specially selected. I am continually in training. Military courtesy, obedience to the chain of command, care for equipment and uniforms and weapons and gear, and the professional military arts are important tools with which I serve our People.
In my highest regard for the safety of the People of California and the honor of the Republic, I set the standard by which all others in the service of the Republic are judged.
Victory and defeat are events which take place in the minds of human beings. I distrust both. In victory I am wary, not overconfident, and fight with all my might, according to the laws and usages of war. In defeat I continue my resistance and fight with all my might, resorting to escape and evasion consistent with the laws and usages of war. In any case I fight efficiently, communicate clearly, move skilfully and if need be, die gallantly.
My duties are heavier than mountains. My life and the lives of my comrades are lighter than a feather. I shall not surrender unless I am completely unable to resist further due to wounds or incapacity or overwhelming odds and shall answer the contrary at my personal peril. In captivity I am still at war and will always remember that California's honor outweighs my own.
Under any and all conditions I will continue the mission even if I am the only survivor.
Scout soldiers are the first in and the last out.
"First in, last out!"
[Adapted from the Untied Snakes Ranger Creed.]
I am a California Republic scout-soldier. I volunteered to put my body between the people of California and those who would harm them. I am a scout. It is my duty to observe and report, as the eyes and ears of the Republic, wherever I may be I am a soldier. It is my duty to disrupt, harass, hinder and destroy the enemies of the Republic by fire and maneuver. I respect the tension between these duties, and will avoid or give battle according to the needs of the California Republic, always holding her safety, and her honor, higher than my own.
The Republic and her People demand and expect that as a California scout-soldier, I will shoot, move and communicate better than any other soldier, whether friend or foe. I strive to be an expert in any weapon, an operator of any means of locomotion, and a technician for any method of communication that serves the mission. Yet if I am unarmed and barefoot, even stark naked, I am deadly to California's foes.
Never shall I fail the people of the Republic of California. Nor shall I fail my comrades, in arms and also those who forbidden arms, who share my oath to our People. Only the mission can make me leave a comrade behind.
I will keep myself mentally alert, physically strong and morally resilient. I will shoulder more than my share of the task whatever it may be, one-hundred-percent and then some. I carry the burdens that our beloved dead can no longer carry. Yet the burden is lighter because I carry my brothers, my sisters and my kinfolk.
I am specially selected. I am continually in training. Military courtesy, obedience to the chain of command, care for equipment and uniforms and weapons and gear, and the professional military arts are important tools with which I serve our People.
In my highest regard for the safety of the People of California and the honor of the Republic, I set the standard by which all others in the service of the Republic are judged.
Victory and defeat are events which take place in the minds of human beings. I distrust both. In victory I am wary, not overconfident, and fight with all my might, according to the laws and usages of war. In defeat I continue my resistance and fight with all my might, resorting to escape and evasion consistent with the laws and usages of war. In any case I fight efficiently, communicate clearly, move skilfully and if need be, die gallantly.
My duties are heavier than mountains. My life and the lives of my comrades are lighter than a feather. I shall not surrender unless I am completely unable to resist further due to wounds or incapacity or overwhelming odds and shall answer the contrary at my personal peril. In captivity I am still at war and will always remember that California's honor outweighs my own.
Under any and all conditions I will continue the mission even if I am the only survivor.
Scout soldiers are the first in and the last out.
"First in, last out!"
