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1. UWO is not a mission in and of itself.
2. It is one of several infiltration techniques, and has not been used much lately.
3. There has been so little requirement for it that a few years ago, we went down to one UWO trained ODA per Battalion.
4. Not everyone in SF can swim well enough to be CDQC qualified. Look at the numbers of PJs. They are less than 10% of the number of SF personnel. If we lost the 50% (or likely more) SF personnel who do not swim well enough to be CDQ, who were otherwise qualified, we would be killing ourselves to meet a requirement which is just aniother way to get to the target and start the real mission. As far as that goes, if we required all SF personnel to make it through the gates of Infantry, Airborne, Ranger, SFQC, Language, SERE, MFF, CDQC, Dive Supe, DMT, six SF MOSes, SFARTAEC, SOTIC, etc., we could spend 5 years in qualification training and wash out 90% of all SF personnel.
5. The key is deciding what skills are critical for everyone to have, what are essential to have someone on each team qualified in, and what a few teams (or people) per battalion need to know.
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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