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Originally posted by spdch
Good advice, especially since they are no longer allowing students to recycle Phase II under the new "get rid of the dirtbags" program.
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Thats news to me. Good news!
In accordance with the regulation, everyone isnt entitled to multiple attempts to pass a phase. Recycles were only supposed to be afforded to those with extenuating circumstances. Somewhere along the line (years before my time) in an attempt to increase the number of students continuing forward, and thus out to the Groups, recycles pretty much became automatic to those that showed the ability to learn, and were of good character.
I dont look at it like its getting rid of dirtbags though. Many quality guys that come through the course just arent the right guy for this job. This job isnt for everyone. I'd like to have been a professional football player, but I was never big or fast enough to get a college schollarship. That doesnt mean I'm a dirtbag, just that I had to find another carreer path.
By the way, I think that the majority of the "dirtbags" have always been flushed out along the way through the pipeline. Sure some lesser quality individual slip through, as they do in virtually every type of school, but the gates established in training do an adequate job of vetting the force at the entry level.
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