Seeing the Wizard
In the military, particularly at a military school, one "see's the wizard" when sleep deprived and worked to great physical and mental exhaustion. "Seeing the wizard" can refer to a hallucination (often with NVG), or passing out cold in the middle of an exercise or a ruck march. Seeing the Wizard is not something you want to do, because you've effectively been rendered incapable of properly performing any tasks ; and if you haven't seen the wizard, your instructor probably knows plenty of people that have.
*The Joe's at ranger school*
Joe 1: man, I'm tired. I haven't slept for three days straight.
Joe 2: Tell me about it. I think someone in our squad is going through our stuff and stealing the shit tickets out of the MRE's, too.
Joe 3: Yeah, and all those monkeys with hats swinging from those trees way off are really bothering me.
Joe 2: ...What?
Joe 1: Don't mind him. He's seeing the wizard.
*During forced march*
Joe 1: Have you seen PVT POG around? Did he fall out?
Jane: Yeah, he walked off the path a mile back and then went to see the wizard.
Joe 1: man, I'm tired. I haven't slept for three days straight.
Joe 2: Tell me about it. I think someone in our squad is going through our stuff and stealing the shit tickets out of the MRE's, too.
Joe 3: Yeah, and all those monkeys with hats swinging from those trees way off are really bothering me.
Joe 2: ...What?
Joe 1: Don't mind him. He's seeing the wizard.
*During forced march*
Joe 1: Have you seen PVT POG around? Did he fall out?
Jane: Yeah, he walked off the path a mile back and then went to see the wizard.
Seeing the Wizard by travmagi December 14, 2019
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