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Kaladin receivedreceives his initial training under [[Tukks]]., Hiswhere firsthe instructionlearns wasthe toimportance beof passionatecontrolled whilepassion—to fightingbe passionate without losing control of his emotions,emotions—a lesson that thehe keydoes tonot fightinginitially was controlled passionunderstand.{{book ref|sa1|27}} Kaladin did not understand why Tukks wasted time by talking about emotions.{{book ref|sa1|49}} TheDuring firsthis night in the armytraining, he was taught gambling by the other soldiers, and played for spheres.{{book ref|sa1|34}} Kaladin demonstrateddemonstrates his natural talent and learnedlearns the spear faster than everyone else in his cohort, with barely even needing instruction which shocked Tukks.{{book ref|sa1|27}}

Despite Amaram's promise to Lirin, because recruitment was slower than desired, the older messenger boys, including Tien, wereare soon organized into several squads of reserve units. According to make up for a shortfall in recruitment. [[Dalar]], assures Kaladin that these squads would not see combat unless the army wasis in serious danger. Less than four months after his enlistment, Kaladin tooktakes part in his third real battle. The enemy force tried to take over a hilltop Amaram's army wasis tryingattempting to hold onto.a Ashilltop; as the battle went worse for the Amaram's sidedeteriorates, messenger boys wereare assigned to Brightlord [[Sheler]]'s company. Hearing that the messenger squad has sent to the front, Kaladin ranruns recklessly through the battlefield in an attempt to reach his brother as the lines of Amaram's army buckled. On the southeast side of the hill, heSquadleader saw[[Varth]] places Tien and two other boys placed in the front oflines, thesuccessfully enemyusing armythem as bait by Squadleader [[Varth]]. While running towards his younger brotherKaladin, he killedkilling a man for the first time, althoughduring hehis didn'trun, getreaches muchTien chanceonly toafter reflecthe on it in the battle chaos. The enemy soldiers took Varth's bait andis killed the three boy, while Kaladin could do nothing but watch. Weeping and bleeding from wounds taken during his run, he huggedhugs Tien's dead body until long past the end of the battle.{{book ref|sa1|67}}

Kaladin sentsends a letter to his parents informing them aboutof Tien's death and hehis wasdecision to not returningreturn to Hearthstone.{{book ref|sa1|47}} He spentspends the next year driving himself to exhaustion every day on the practice yard, to getvowing vengeance and to never to let another person die because of his lack of skill. He becamebecomes the best spearman in his company, and wasis rumored to be the best in the entire army. He eventually metmeets [[Tarah]], who coaxedcoaxes Kaladin out of his single-mindedness, claiming it would burn him out.{{book ref|sa1|63}} The two wereare romantically involved, but wereare separated after some time, for which Kaladin blamedblames himself.{{book ref|sa1|62}} He joinedjoins the [[Takers]] under Tukks' leadership.{{book ref|sa1|2}} He metmeets [[Durk]], who becamebecomes a mentor figure to Kaladin.{{book ref|sa1|46}} Eventually, allevery membersmember of the Takers exceptare Kaladinkilled wereexcept killedfor Kaladin.{{book ref|sa1|2}}

Kaladin wasis promoted to squadleader whenat hethe wasage of eighteen years old, becoming the youngest one in the army.

On the {{date/sa|year=1172|month=10|text=month of Ishi of the year 1172}}, Kaladin foughtfights his final battle in Amaram's army. Prior to the battle, Kaladin metmeets with another squadleader namedSquadleader [[Gare]] and two of his sergeants. AsKaladin hebribes usuallyGare didto whentransfer he saw[[Cenn]], a young recruitand ininexperienced needsoldier, of protection,to Kaladin's bribedown Garesquad, sowhom thehe otherentrusts squadleaderto wouldhis sendsergeant [[CennDallet]] to Kaladin's own squad. He went by the surgeon's station to also bribebribes the surgeons there to seegive priority to Kaladin'shis men. first,While althoughbribing the surgeons, the pouch stucksticks to his hand by what Kaladin thoughtassumes wasis a [[windspren]], thenalthough heit continuedis onactually his[[Sylphrena]]. wayKaladin goes to the front rankslines ofand the battle line to take his place with his squadprepares for the upcoming battle. Heafter startedconsulting telling his sergeant, [[Dallet]], to take care of Cenn once he arrived but cut off when he saw that the younger boy had already made his way there.{{book ref|sa1|47}} Dallet and Kaladin surveyed the battlefield and decided they would fight around a nearby hill. With a final counsel to Dallet to keep an eye out on Cenn, he took his place at the front of his squad after shortly conferring with another squadleader.

Once the signal to march was given, Kaladin's squad ran ahead of the rest of Amaram's army, avoiding the volleys of arrows the enemy sent their way. They engaged the first enemywell-disciplined squad, anduses theirnon-standard discipline forced the enemytactics to retreat, without Kaladin's squadavoid taking any casualties. For the better part of an hour, they held the small hill they'd chosen as their battlefield, only engaging squads that got close to their position. The larger battle, however, didndoesn't go nearly go as well, and after the larger body of Amaram's force brokebreaks, Kaladin's squad retreatedis eastward,left towardsin a largerthe groupmiddle of soldiers that were still holding. Before they were halfway across the field however, a large group of enemy soldiers intercepted them. The two sides met in a crash, and inDuring the chaos, CennKaladin gotsingle-handedly toodefeats closesix to enemy soldiers. Kaladin rushedmen to thesave youngCenn, boy'swho help,had defeatingbeen sixstranded enemyalone spearmen,without andthe sawrest toof histhe woundssquad.{{book ref|sa1|1}} NearbyAfter treating Cenn, Kaladin sees an enemy battalionlord wasand tryingdecides tokill rallyhim, hishoping soldiersthat to mountsuch a counterattack.feat Afterwould allow seeinghim to hisbe men, Kaladin decidedtransferred to attack the enemy[[Shattered officerPlains]], inwhere theKaladin hopesbelieves killingthe areal sofight highand rankedhonorable officermen wouldcan be enough to get them to the Shattered Plainsfound. Kaladin and two of his subsquads executedexecute their plan flawlessly, andwith Kaladin himself struckstriking the killing blow on the enemy battalionlord,.{{book while the other two subsquads held back with the wounded.ref|sa1|47}}

AsImmediately theyafter, surveyedan theunknown field,enemy theyfull noticed[[Shardbearer]], alater Shardbearerrevealed cuttingto throughbe Amaram's[[Helaran army.Davar]],{{book Kaladinref|sa2|52}}{{book ranref|sa2|73}} towardsappears theand sixcuts menthrough heAmaram'ds left behindarmy, butkilling couldCenn, not get there before the Shardbearer killed them all. In angerDallet, Kaladinand rantwo after the Shardbearer followed by his twenty remaining menothers. They reached him just as the ShardbearerHelaran wascontinues abouton to killattack Amaram himself, and Amaram'swhose honor guard has abandoned their chargehim. Led byEnraged, Kaladin, and his mentwenty attackedremaining themen Shardbearerchase butafter wereHelaran. barelyThey ableengage toHelaran, scratchsaving the ShardplateAmaram. TheHelaran manis easilyable killedto kill sixteen of his Kaladin's men withbefore aKaladin fewfinally strokesmanages ofto hiskill Blade, and the last four scrambled awayhim. FacingAmaram theand Shardbearer by himself[[Coreb]], Kaladin dodged a fewone of the other manKaladin's swingsmen, thenurge eventuallyKaladin killedto himclaim by ramming the broken head of his spear through the visor slit of the enemyHelaran's Plate. Kaladin's remaining menShards, as wellit asis Amaram,his wereright amazedto do by whatancient Kaladin had donetradition. [[Coreb]]However, tried to get him to take the Shards,Kaladin butis disgusted by the thought of wielding the same Blade that hadhas claimed the lives of so many of his friends. Instead, Kaladin saidgives hethe was giving themShards to Coreb and walkedwalks away to the warcamp, alone and crying.{{book ref|sa1|47}}

KaladinA wasfew calledhours tolater, theKaladin warcenteris acalled fewto hoursAmaram's laterwarcenter. He satwaits in onea ofwaiting theroom smallerwhile chamberAmaram mullingis overdiscussing the eventsidentity of the day, while he waited for Amaram to come out of the conference he was holdingShardbearer with his counselors to discover the identity of the Shardbearer. Kaladin rose asEventually, Amaram entered the chamberenters along with his stormwarden, a group of lighteyed officers, one of whom was carrying the Shardblade wrapped in cloth, and the four surviving members of Kaladin's squad, followedand byfinally, two of the lesser lighteyes in Amaram's honor guard. Amaram praisedpraises Kaladin on his bravery and askedasks why he hadn't taken the Blade., Kaladinfor hedgedwhich andKaladin saiddoesn't hehave wantedan toanswer. giveThe theconversation Shardsat toan Corebend, the bestAmaram fighterthen amongorders his survivingattendants men.to Withoutkill anotherthe word,surviving Amarammembers orderedof the menKaladin's death.squad while Kaladin washimself incapacitatedis byrestrained. Amaram's men.apologizes Thefor Brightlordkilling knelthis onmen, onebut kneesays nextthat tothis the lying Kaladin, apologized for killingwas the menonly becauseway heto couldn'tensure affordsecrecy. themHe toinforms talkKaladin aboutthat whathe happened.had Hethought said after thinkingit over it for hours andbefore finally being convinced by [[Restares]] he'd decided that the Bladebest interests of Alethkar would servebe Alethkarserved if thehe bestwielded withthe Shards himself. ClaimingAs itan wasact aof mercy, heAmaram hadspares Kaladin's life and has him branded as a slave for deserting theand armysold.{{book ref|sa1|51}}