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I'm asking because the majority of people who think about going SF are drawn to the highspeed, direct action stuff and no one usually comments on the Foriegn Internal Defense mission.
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I am only a guy with an 18x contract yet to ship to BCT,
But for a while there I was assisting with a rudimentary pre-ship training program for 18x guys being piloted by USAREC (18X-DESaP-Program)
Had the pleasure of calling a lot of pre-ship 18x guys and just talking with them; gauging where they where at; touching base with them.
From my subjective point of view there where two types of 18x-er.
1. The guy who had just walked into a recruiting office either to enlist as ‘what ever’ and had been 'sold' on 18X, or the guy who had heard about the 'high speed' Special Forces and thought it sounded cool, thinking that it was a bit like SEALs or Rangers; all DA and everything.
2. The guy who had looked into it, and read some stuff, and done at least a bit of research; who had perhaps started looking at SF for the above reason, but had soon realized that SF is definitely 3D, and had realized what they generally do the most of....FID...and had grown to appreciate it.
When I asked most guys which of the 5 (now 7?) SF missions most interested them, it was the FID / UW, not so much the DA. Many quoted the Vietnam / Montagnard type literature out there.
It felt to me that the second guy was more informed and more motivated and probably more likely to be better prepared for selection then the first guy.
But that's just my unscientific opinion FWIW.
In short, it felt to me that a lot of the better prepared guys (mentally / physically) where very interested in the FID / UW angle of SF.
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