Young boys are taught to be herders and to be warriors. The children ask junior elders to sponsor their circumcision and ask the elders to ask the liaison to open a new circumcision period. Junior Warrior Warriors have many social purposes among the tribe. They must do things such as capturing, branding or protecting cows. Masai warriors have a lot expected of them and they rarely fall short of those expectations.
Masai warriors are also very close knit within their group.
Newly initiated boys must work hard to gain all of these things and are first junior warriors before full fledged warriors. The junior warriors must prove themselves worthy by going on lion hunts. Now, the man goes to live in a manyatta, a specially built Kraal only for warriors and others vital for the teaching process. The warriors perform such duties as building fences, clearing sand from the wells, and watering the cattle. When pressure from younger generations arises, the warriors are forced to graduate to elderhood.