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It's OK, let him go. He already knows all the answers and his personal life experiences are the pattern for everybody. If they pay attention to him, they can ignore institutional training programs designed to maximize throughput in favor of an extreme athlete program that's all sexy and "stuff". If he graduates the SFQC, and gets to an ODA he'll have plenty of time to figure out why he's spending his time sitting on his rucksack in the hallway wondering why nobody likes X-rays. Course his fellow X-rays who have broken the code, proven themselves, and been accepted may not appreciate him reinforcing the stereotypes they've struggled to overcome.
jurisdoctor - You're in for a rude awakening. I don't know why you enlisted or what your motivations were for selecting SF, but I think you're about to be very disillusioned. The Regiment is evolving, our mission set is changing, and within 3-4 years you will not recognize whatever you thought you were enlisting for. Good luck. To be fair though - thank you for volunteering to serve. Within your peer group you are a genuine rarity. I wish you every success. But I'm not holding my breath that you'll find "fulfillment" in SF.
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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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