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Originally Posted by MFFI115
In late '88, prior to my PCS to Oki, I was the Operational Skills Division (OSD) SGM. OSD had the old Phase I and III courses. The then MAJ Toney and I were THE division. I was out walking lanes during a land nav exercise with a Phase I class (yes, as a SGM in Tng Grp, I walked lanes and gave hip pocket training) and noticed a student who looked older than dirt. He was a 52 year old and had made the Army Times earlier that year or the year before for being the oldest Ranger School graduate. I don't know if he ever made it thru Tng Grp since I PCS'ed soon after.
Carl
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That would be great as an orientation for a chaplain or a doctor.
Not sure I would want a 53 year old E-5 on an ODA deploying to a combat zone. Assuming that we get ten years of team time or more out of most students, and possibly as many as 20 out of some of the SF babies, the guy will be social security eligible and still on an ODA.
I saw officers who were going to be promoted to Major very shortly shotgunned through the pipeline to get to an ODA for 90 days and a report card prior to getting a company, and I did not like it one bit. Those guys hurt our force badly.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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