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other SF soldiers:
new 18A: Remember, the first day you walk into your first team room, that ODA has a combined 35 to 85 years of SF experience to your 0 days. Any idea that you come up with has already been vetted at least once by at least one team member. The average team guy is always looking for the right way, not the easy way. If you willingly incorporate that experience into your planning and execution, you will be the most successful TL in that BN.

new 18Z: The team is counting on you. Regardless of how good your mentor was, seek knowledge from other TM SGTs and former TM SGTs (Co and BN SGMs, and WOs) whenever you can, keep learning every day. The journey didn't end when you pinned on E8 and got a team.

new 180A: see 18A and 18Z.

new team guy: SFQC didn't teach you your job, it gave you the MOS and the tools you needed to learn your job on your team. Ask questions and listen. Learn everything you can about your MOS, your goal here should be that everyone else in the company in your MOS will come to you before Google when they have a question.
And learn what the other MOS's on your team can teach you. Your goal here should be that the other MOS's on your team are confident that you can back them up in their absence.

"I don't know how" or "not my job" is not how we operate. Learn it and do it , whether it is writing a CONOP, re-writing a FID POI from scratch, submitting an award, writing an NCOER, or completing your DTS.
Shooting bad guys is about 1% of the job. If you can't hack the other 99% of the job, SF isn't for you. And the Army probably isn't for you...

Wannabes: Don't quit. Don't stop learning. See above for the rest when you get there.

Conventional soldiers: The SF guy you are dealing with came into the Army to be SF, just like you came in the Army to be your MOS. MOS's are not inherently "better" or "worse". They are just jobs. We are going to be working together more frequently in the future, so let's just treat each other like professionals and get better at the new joint thinig.

Spouses: If he is going to cheat on you, or if you are going to cheat on him, it was going to happen if he was an 18B or a tax attorney.
It's not a job thing, it's a character flaw. So quit blaming the job and start dealing with the character flaw.

Kids (and Spouses): This job cannot always be scheduled around birthdays, anniversaries, graduations and Christmas. It's the quality of time you spend together, not the quantity or specific dates on a calendar.
Don't bind yourself to that arbitrary date on the calendar, be flexible and celebrate those big events early or late on the days that you can when you're all together.