[blue02hd]

Keep pushing Grim! Your future ODA deserves it, and it will pay off in spades. Knowledge is a moving target in my opinion when your requirements constantly change, only wisdom will provide the answers you want, after the fact of course. Research, question, assess, and decide.

Our political environment directly effects our day to day under a Green Beret (example). Second and third order effects! When tactical, think operational. When operational, consider strategic! As you travel through your basic requirements always keep the bigger picture in mind. Plan for it, prepare for it, have an answer, even if its not the right one.

This advice I'd offer to anyone who pushes for more, as it is advice I never understood when I was younger. Lol, I learned it after the fact.

My apologies for throwing a silly response to your initial question (post #2). I made a poor initial assessment. Many younger members fail to research and put the work into prep, I assessed you as one of their ilk. Pleasantly I was mistaken.