Joseph Heller
Doctrine Man To Save The Day: Facebook Comic Makes Military Services Friends
“Doctrine Man” is an anonymous, unauthorized Facebook comic strip about surviving the absurdities of military services life. Doctrine Man has been continuously gaining a global following among the military rank and file and printouts have been seen at the Pentagon. The military services has long used humor to cope with military doctrine and hardship and Doctrine Man updates are a 21st century extension of that tradition.
Doctor Doctrine Man
An Army officer had been the producer of Doctrine Man, and placed his invention online for the world to determine via Facebook. The officer, who prefers to remain anonymous, told the new York Times that he created Doctrine Man updates to share his disappointment of working for individuals who “just didn’t get it.” If he had an experience relating to military doctrine, he turns it into a comic and posts it on his site, but he leaves the people really involved anonymous. Doctrine Man has lead to many private e-mail conversations with other military officers who have wanted to talk with him. He sends feedback about what’s going on within the field up the command chain.
Doctrine Man Facebook updates
The message of Doctrine Man comic strips is what is essential not the poorly drawn stick figures. The Facebook superhero is best describes as, “Able to leap useless acronyms with a single bound, faster than a lumbering field manual, more powerful than a cheese enchilada in a staff huddle.” Sample concepts mentioned in the Times article contain the military’s efforts for making war zones feel like home, wearing a Hawaiian shirt in combat and an officer selecting a soldier for a special assignment by throwing a book at the first one who comes along.
A history of military satire
Doctrine Man is the latest in a long line of satirical portrayals of the common grunt accepting his fate with ironic humor. Bill Mauldin for example made Willie and Joe cartoons during World War II while in Europe. Richard Hookers “MASH” and Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22” are a few comics that began out that were and were ultimately turned into huge hits. When it comes to comic strips, Doctrine Man could be considered the thinking soldier’s “Beetle Bailey,” which has been drawn by various artists since it started in 1950.
Articles cited
facebook.com/pages/Doctrine-Man/110598432306650
New York Times
nytimes.com/2010/11/19/us/19pentagon.html?src=twrhp
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Mauldin
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