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Old 10-21-2009, 08:34   #50
alelks
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Originally Posted by SkiBumCFO View Post
And all these years i had been saying I had graduated from the last easy class! guess i cant use that line anymore. I have little contact with the current graduates so cant say if the course is easier or not but I know one very talented 18x in 5th grouup that is highly intelligent and mature and even he says he wishes he had done some time with any line unit before going through the course. He feels there is a real taint with being an Xray.
I can definitely agree with that statement. I came into SF straight off the street.

I was a PFC holding down an E7 slot on the team as an SF baby in the early 80s. Fortunately I had a strong Team Sergeant. I really needed some conventional time before going SF.
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