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[deckardcanine]

I've seen the word "warrior" in several government-affiliated documents now, and I've given to the Wounded Warriors Project, but I'm still not used to it. Maybe I'm too influenced by video games. To me the word evokes the distant past, before gunpowder caught on. It's probably meant to convey nobility, but I don't like to think of modern soldiers as one step away from vikings.

We'll see if they still use the word this way in a few decades. More importantly, we'll see if it spreads to the mainstream media and private lay conversations.

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[nefaria.livejournal.com]

The RPG guru in me translates "warrior" into "fighter who can't use magic", but given the technology most U.S. soldiers have access to, the description doesn't seem to fit.

[akktri.livejournal.com]

I don't know about it being defined as something related to swords and sorcery, but I think in our modern times it should only be used to describe Wolverine.
...Or the faithful at an evangelistic crusade.
Also, I've heard of modern people with the Viking religion who wear Thor's hammer on their necklaces and carve it on their tombstones. It's not a very popular religion, but it exists.