Proposal for Enemies of Gertrud Barkhorn with one being Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from the House of Military and Warfare under the Hall of Military Ranks
Gertrud does have her limits and can be provoked to violent rage if discipline goes too far into abuse and torment. Gunnery Sergeant Hartman found this out the hard way ending up on her shitlist as cruel, screaming loud and physically abusive training methods crossed too many lines even for an ascended Marine Corps Drill Instructor and pushed Barkhorn's Bully Hunterbutton causing her to infiltrate Hartman's house to start Volleying Insults and lay a surprising haymaker on the Gunnery Sergeant. This was especially personal since the Sergeant's surname was becoming a much-reviled bastardization of Barkhorn's carefree yet beloved friend and squadron mate Erica Hartmann and seeing him in her eyes was a desecration of her friend's name along with his intentional lack of emotional discipline to rein his abuse in. Being sucker-punched by her drove Barkhorn further up Hartman's shitlist as he intends to render Barkhorn and her 501st Joint Fighter Wing squadron mates mortal and drive them to Hell all whilst screaming his obscenities and hatred to both eviscerate and negate any and all things feminine. But Barkhorn's strength has put him far in retreat at least so far.
One of the reasons I peg Gunnery Sergeant Hartman as not just being nasty for training on the job but also nasty and cruel off the job is his detesting all things feminine and civilian as though they were Communist i.e. the enemy. He calls traits like conscience, mercy and compassion - whether by stated rhetoric or implication - filth that contaminate and render unclean what he believes ALL humans but mainly men ought to be. That ideal being ruthless, heartless killers. This attitude that gets him killed by Leonard Lawrence (Private "Gomer Pyle") is foreshadowed by his adoration and praise of Lee Harvey Oswald for killing President Kennedy and the University of Texas at Austin shooter Charles Whitman who murdered sixteen people - one of the first ever school shooters. These ought to be clear markers that Hartman is not to be seen as a hero or even nominally an antihero by any stretch of the imagination.
Edited by PeachLover94Peach Lover 94
It's a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done. A far better resting place that I go to, than I've ever known.
Proposal for Enemies of Gertrud Barkhorn with one being Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from the House of Military and Warfare under the Hall of Military Ranks
One of the reasons I peg Gunnery Sergeant Hartman as not just being nasty for training on the job but also nasty and cruel off the job is his detesting all things feminine and civilian as though they were Communist i.e. the enemy. He calls traits like conscience, mercy and compassion - whether by stated rhetoric or implication - filth that contaminate and render unclean what he believes ALL humans but mainly men ought to be. That ideal being ruthless, heartless killers. This attitude that gets him killed by Leonard Lawrence (Private "Gomer Pyle") is foreshadowed by his adoration and praise of Lee Harvey Oswald for killing President Kennedy and the University of Texas at Austin shooter Charles Whitman who murdered sixteen people - one of the first ever school shooters. These ought to be clear markers that Hartman is not to be seen as a hero or even nominally an antihero by any stretch of the imagination.
Edited by PeachLover94 Peach Lover 94 It's a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done. A far better resting place that I go to, than I've ever known.