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Originally Posted by wet dog
Their have always been "SF babies" to some level.
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Exactly,and I was one of them!...... When I originally enlisted for four years in 1954,it was for the Airborne............. After I graduated from jump school I attempted to re-up for Special Forces,and I was told I wasn't qualified because I had to have at least 3 years of infantry training and re-up for 6 years.......... Then one day during the spring of 1955 a request came down stating any qualified paratrooper with an infantry MOS can apply for the SF....... More specific details are located somewhere in this forum....... The reason this exception was made by Colonel Aaron Bank because the men serving at the time were extremely qualified combat veterans(Darbys Rangers,Carlsons Raiders,Merrials Marauders,Lodge's Volunteers,and many others)and he felt that experience must not go to waste........So about 100 of us guys reenlisted,we were given what they called a short discharge and away we went to smoke bomb hill..... Anyone interested in more details look up 77th Group deactivated groups in the forum or PM me......... We were called "Bank's Babies" ..... 
Big Teddy 
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I believe that SF is a 'calling' - not too different from the calling missionaries I know received. I knew instantly that it was for me, and that I would do all I could to achieve it. Most others I know in SF experienced something similar. If, as you say, you HAVE searched and read, and you do not KNOW if this is the path for you --- it is not....
Zonie Diver
SF is a calling and it requires commitment and dedication that the uninitiated will never understand......
Jack Moroney
SFA M-2527, Chapter XXXVII
Last edited by greenberetTFS; 01-09-2011 at 17:55.
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