Like Mark46th, I was drafted in 1970 and, after completing all of the initial entry testing, was discharged after being a US for 5 days to reenlist as an RA for the SF Enlistment Option (12B) as Pete mentioned. It was then BCT at Fort Ord, AIT at Fort Leonard Wood, BAC at Fort Benning, and then on the buses heading up US 301 for SFTG at Fort Bragg. Mark and I were in the same PH1 class but he went 05B and I then went 91B (F Co USAIMA).
By the time I got to Group, I had nearly 2 years of AD and was a SGT - although I had been wearing SGT stripes since completing PH1 as an 'Acting Jack' (SP4 in a leadership position) in my med training company. The Honor Grads from each of the MOSes used to get SSG out of SFTG - but that ended about the time Groups changed their TO&E to the H-series with numbered battalions.
Maybe those of us in the early 70s could be considered the 13th Generation (kinda like the 13th Warrior) of the SF Baby crowd. 
And so it goes...
Richard 
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