[LEStudent]

If I may interject something here, I'd like to:

I'm 27 years old, married, and have been considering going NG SF for some time. What I'd like to say is that, if someone is 18 years old and considering the military, don't be a dumbass (like me) and decide not to go. My wife will tell you - I kick myself every day for being a dumbass at 18 and not joining the Army. When I got a little older and had the opportunity to be around guys that were former SF, I realized, "Damn, that's what I was missing out on. That's what I've been looking for my whole life." Some of the very ideas expressed in this thread - the brotherhood, the comraderie, "To Free the Oppressed" - these are all ideas I concepts I've looked for my whole life. Don't wake up one day staring at 30, and realize that you blew it when you were young. I've never been in the Army, never been SF, but, God as my witness, if I could go back, I'd take life by the balls and join up pronto. I'm really not that old, in the grand scheme of things - 27 is still a young pup. Looking at what I've missed, though, I feel like a damned old man looking back on his life. For you young guys, don't be like this dumbass.