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Old 12-23-2008, 10:33   #10
The Reaper
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Boy can't he make up his mind..... Lots of time in school hope he made use of the training.

Concur.

Sounds like a badgefinder extraordinaire. I do not find these accomplishments particularly impressive. In fact, it strikes me as a negative.

I would prefer a servicemember who found a calling after his first, or at worst, second service.

The payback for the training in all three is going to come up short. Probably worked on a follow-on plan to go into the AF as a PJ before he even completed the previous service school.

I do understand guys who branch transfer to get to SF. I have seen a lot of guys come to SF from Rangers, Recon, etc. At the same time, I have seen very few leave SF for the other services or units. I know a fair number of SF guys who left for a special mission unit, a handful of guys who left SF to go back to mother Army, and just ONE guy who left SF to go back to the Rangers.

It would seem to me that with enough research and planning, you would only have to join one service and work your way into whatever SOF they had, but I guess some people learn the hard way.

To each their own.

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