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I showed up to my company on a Monday afternoon and at 0530 Tuesday morning I was on a C130 headed to St Croix. The next afternoon I was introduced to my team and got my first experience swimming on a budline. I spent the next 6 years finning my balls off on a surface swim team. Nobody ever asked me at group or batallion or company if I knew how to swim. My team sergeant never asked me if I knew how to swim. He handed me a snap link, a BC, and some fins and told me to go and I went.
How would that work if I had shown up unable to swim? That isn't hurting the standards?
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