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Originally Posted by TaiNormand
I know there are a lot of military cut backs but I thought they wanted to expand SF, so why are they DQ'ing people so easily?- 18 Y/O civilian wanting to go SF after college.
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Because first, we have plenty of 18s right now, and second, we can afford to be picky, this is Special Forces, not Average Forces.
There are a number of discussions about this, and why we do not accept the blind, broken, mentally unstable, diseased, etc., etc.
TR
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