[RichL025]

I concur with the previous comments -

I got off AD at the end of 1998 and joined A/3/20 in Ocala, FL. I honestly did not know what to expect, I was half-expecting a bunch of wannabe's or a weekend beer-drinking club...

I was thoroughly iimpressed with the quality of the company I was in. The guys were mostly young, great condition, many were in law enforcement / FD / related security type jobs. My 18B worked for a nationally-known gun manufacturer! A few (~20%) of guys had active duty time either as QPs or non-QPs prior to the Q course.

There was a little bit of 'parochial-ness' (for lack of a better word)... "this is the way we do things here" etc etc. But no one was really hide-bound, and they were open to learning new ways of doing things, etc...

I echo the comments about how "tight" the teams are. I left A/3/20 in 2002 to start medical school, and I still regularly keep in touch with many of my old teammates.

I can wholeheartedly endorse the SF NG - they were damn good back when I first met them, and I have no doubt that, given their extended deployments in OIF / OEF, they have gotten better still.

HTH