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Some advice for you as I sort have been in your shoes, although not as a MI type:
1) Do you OBC's pre-ranger program if they have one, sounds like you haven't done that.
2) Get your Ranger Slot through your OBC program and don't rely on "going" after you get to your unit or once you finish your deployment. They may not send you and its not as easy as saying you want to go.
3) Don't be in such a rush to get to your unit without a tab if you can avoid it, or at least a set of Airborne wings. Believe or not, your unit will deploy and do just fine if one more 2nd Lt. doesn't get there until a month or two after it deploys downrange. Getting your Ranger Tab will at least help you in some aspects of SFAS and in the Army in general.
4) After you have done all of that and seriously thought about your future, drop your year group packet to attend SFAS. If you do that and get picked up to attend a SFAS date, prepare yourself physically, mentally and go. Then after about 7 days there, and everyday thereafter re-evaluate if you really want it. After you do those things and your mind is sure, go forward.
Good luck
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