Spartan warriors were told by their mothers to either carry their shield home with pride or on it as a dead hero. There was no in-between. Spartan women were well educated, strong and were also trained for battle to protect Sparta when their men were off fighting wars. Resilient? That doesn't even come close to explain what they were all about. It was in their blood from birth.
That was the way it was for them and to fail was not an option because they would all die trying.This is not something someone decided they could be taught with a Power Point and ten hours worth of being talked to. Ten hours and the Department of Defense expects to train young men and women to suddenly become "resilient" and that would in some way cut down on suicides. You have got to be kidding! Especially when the Air Force comes out with something like this in their training.
"Thriving Through, Not Only Surviving Your Combat Deployment to Return with Honor? Are they out of their minds?
This gets even worse as hard as that is to imagine. Are they actually saying something like PTSD is a choice? After all that is the message the troops have been hearing all this time. They didn't train right and it is their fault they are suffering.
"In Ancient Ethical Theories, Virtues were dispositional with Character Strength developed through the habit of choiceYou can read the rest of this crap yourself at Warrior Resilience and Thriving It is pretty obvious they never read Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay or they would have never, ever come out with something that does more harm than good.
Virtues and Vices are both chosen, baed on what we perceive as "right action." We have choice or free will to properly control our emotions and behaviors.
Virtues are stable states vs. inborn personality traits, though some traits are biologically influenced.
Virtue involves repeated practice and correct choices until a habit of choice is built and guided by correct emotions The Marine Corps calls this Ethical Muscle Memory.
Army Ethics and Leadership Training (FM 6-22) expect a standard of character excellence known as the Warrior Ethos.
