9 | Jones

This is War

Incongruity

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, History, Social Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Training is a way of honing skills, of teaching your body to think without you, so you can concentrate on the crisis at hand, but you can’t train character, you only can amplify it. For Cody Jones the commitment he made to himself was part of a larger perspective, a way of lining up the world so that it made sense easily and immediately. When you give yourself a couple basic rules but then live up to them without fail, that’s what makes you reliable. At the top of Cody’s list was an injunction that doing things right was more important than anything else.

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0:00.0	We're still having rounds of ways past our head the whole time and my lieutenant looks
0:11.3	to me and goes, Jones, I can't get a hold of any trucks.
0:14.4	You're going to have to make a run and go flag the trucks down.
0:17.2	I start running the hundred yards towards the trucks.
0:19.6	The whole time rounds are just bouncing down by my feet and I finally get to the attention
0:23.9	of the trucks and I'm out in the middle of the open desert and I'm going shit.
0:27.4	I ain't got no cover.
0:29.0	I ain't got no place to hide.
0:30.4	Well, fuck, I got a flag jacket on with Sappy plates.
0:33.9	They're designed for reasons.
0:35.1	So I just took a knee and faced right at the guys who were shooting at us and just started
0:38.7	shooting back while I was waiting for the trucks to get in front of me so we can met
0:42.9	a vac curma.
0:44.7	Training is a way of honing skills of teaching your body to think without you so that you
0:49.2	can concentrate on the crisis at hand.
0:52.0	But you can't train character.
0:54.3	You can only amplify it.
0:56.4	Of course, character can be kind of a slippery concept.
0:59.7	We often think it has to do with being honest or forthright.
1:03.2	We think of people as having a strong or a weak character and from there we get a sense
1:07.5	who they are in the big picture.
1:10.2	Character however, is a composite.
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