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Old 02-23-2013, 10:03   #9
bubba
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Up in a Mountain Patrol Base, away-away / provides-provides and defendable for a short period of time
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Without a language capability, we (SF) are just Marines with better looking hats......

There are 4 things that you can't learn on a couple hour C-17 flight to some foreign AOR:

1) Physical Fitness
2) Marksmanship
3) Land Nav
4) Language

Pretty much any thing else of critical importance such as a new radio, weapon, bomb, etc can learned in a couple hours with a trainable person and the manual.
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