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Originally Posted by The Reaper
IMHO, if it isn't in writing in your contract, it isn't promised, and the Army has no obligation to honor the alleged agreement.
What is wrong with learning how to be an infantryman for a few months before dropping an SF packet?
Any particular reason you have to be an 18X?
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Certainly there is nothing wrong with infantry and learning things from those who already know far more than I. But in earnest, and please inform me if I'm wrong, I am seeing a vast difference between an SF man and an infantryman. Amongst which are important to me at this stage in my life, age and maturity. Of course they don't always go hand in hand, and I know the attrition rate for SF is very high, but at this point in my life, I would like to at least work myself an opportunity to try for QP's rather than spend a year 'hoot-n-holleran' with the 18-19 yr olds.
I know myself, and am more suited to the roles which SF plays, than to the roles of infantry. Am I SF material, we'll see. They'll tell me. And please don't take this as me taking a better-than-thou attitude on infantry. I certainly am not. I can and would learn a lot from those hard working experienced men. The old path to SF is probably as it should be. However things have changed and doors have opened, and I'd be a fool not to try to utilize them.
But again I am not disillusioned. I know who I am, where I am in life, and what I am more suited to. Hanging out with the infantry and SF guys in Ft.Bragg, I saw I fit well with one far better than the other. And it wasn't as much the infantry guys.
To me this is a huge life 180. It is for all who decide to serve. But at this point, I want to maximize my goals, efforts, and opportunities to their fullest. I would be a fool not to. And to maximize these opportunities the 18x best fits the bill.
So I guess, I hear what you are saying about having it in black and white. But as I said, I don't have much of an option there. I just wonder how often the Army comes through, or if my odds of getting SFAS via said path are even realistic.
Thank you for your input gentlemen. Big decision.