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Originally posted by Basenshukai
What is driving this perception among soldiers in regular units? Generally, it seems, that the elite units bypass these issues. Better leadership (officer and NCO), better training, tight cohesion, and more of a sense of purpose might be the distinction between the elite units and most conventional units. Or, I might be totally wrong. Well, let's discuss it.
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Don't forget the weeding out process. SOF units get to DX the unmotivated slugs, what few they may ever see, and guess where they get sent. Most of those types wouldn't even try to get into a unit like that. In the line units we were stuck with them. We had our hard chargers, some units had a lot of them, some units had hardly any. Those kind of guys usually would try out for an SOF slot, get fed up and ETS, or turn into slugs themselves. Constant battle in the line units to keep motivation high and not let the slugs take over. Ive been in line units where they were winning that battle, and in one where they didn't even try.