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All right. IF you are an officer AND if you pass the SFQC AND you are not already Ranger qualified, THEN you will be given an opportunity to attend Ranger School. We (USASFC(A)) will pay for it, SWCS (4th Bn) will put you on orders and send you in the gap between SFQC graduation and reporting to your first unit. There is a bit of controversy about this but the respective CGs and their G3s support the program so I don't expect it to change while we can still figure out how to scrounge funds for it. Fair warning - it's a one shot "with your shield or on it" course, especially for officers. NG officers will require a bit more effort (mostly earlier planning) but it's possible for them too. Bottom line - worry about passing the SFQC FIRST. That 25M target we're always talking about here.
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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