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The SFQC graduated less than 250 students in 2001.
By 2005, they were on track to graduate 750. They have since been graduating upwards of 850.
When you do this without tripling the number of students assessed, how have you done this without changing the standards?
I believe that the course has been improved considerably over the past 20 years. I also believe that the leadership has recently made a conscious decision to assume risk and graduate at least 750 students per year, regardless of their performance. We probably did something similar during the Vietnam War when we needed warm bodies under berets. Doesn't mean the great guys were not getting through the course throughout our history. Just means that quite a few more are recently of a lower quality, some will pan out to be good SF soldiers, and some will not. It is then up to the teams to keep them and train them in the ways of the force, or to throw them back into the pool. Wartime requirements may necessitate compromises.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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