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Originally Posted by Mountain25
I am NG SF and currently mobilized with and attached to an active group. I ETS over here and am going to try and stay with the group I am currently attached to. I am going to work the issue through the active duty unit I am attached too. It's hard to belive I would have to come off active duty, de-mob, then enlist active duty, and then go to a board to see if I am fit to be with the unit that I just went to combat with, lol. I dunno that seems pretty inefficient to me, Oh well it wouldn't surprise me, it is the Army.
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The accession board has generated a lot of hard feelings in the NG (at least in my little part of it.) The message it delivers to an NG SF soldier is that USASFC thinks that "you're good enough to go man a team house in Afghanistan or Iraq without cert /val, because we need to ease the AD rotation schedule, but if you want to hang out with us back at Bragg, you'll have to pass some extra tests."
I know of several SF troops who decided not to go AD because of that - not because they didn't think they could make it past the board, but because they didn't like the idea that they had to step off the plane from Afghanistan after a seven month tour on an A-team, and go get screened to see if they were good enough to be on an A-team.