Sunday, March 2, 2008
"You don't strike me as an Army kinda guy..."
The nigh universal reaction to informing people I've signed up for the Army has been "you never really struck me as the Army type". Which confuses me, as a lot of these people (as far as I know) know very few (if any) Army people. So, that leaves me wondering (a) What is "the Army type" and (b) what qualities of mine strike others as ill-suited for the Army (b.2) what is the mismatch people are identifying between the qualities of "the Army type" and me?
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I understood the first question, but not the second one, assuming the correct pronouns are in use. The adventure has begun. Some questions come to mind here, to perhaps see what is behind the comment: does a certain kind of person go into the army, or does any person who goes into the army come out a certain way? Are the comments focused on who you are, or who you might become? Are comments descriptive, proscriptive, prescriptive or predictive? Musings on a snowy Sunday evening. m
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