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Why go SF?
well, first of all I'm third gen airborne and second gen SF, but that just started the ball rolling. Everyone will have their own reason for joining or not, that's the bottom line. We, as the ones on the inside attempt to size each person that show an interest in the club. I have done this many times myself; that guy is to dumb, he's to into himself, dude could not get lai&*^ in a ore house on payday. The one thing I have learned over the years, that the one common link that all of the great ones have, is that they give a crap, truely care about the men and the mission. Those are the ones that make a great team guy. Now over the years I have met a many of guys that came into the the club and didn't have the right mind set, but grew into the role and are some of the best senior guys and some are leading men in combat as we speak. Another thing I keep hearing people bitching about, is the "Q" stanards are dropping and the quility of of the guys are dropping with it. Well I have yet to see the drop from the receiving end of the "Q". The men that have come out of the course to the team are just as good if not better than what was porduced 14 years ago.
Now back to the real question. SF is a jack of all trade and must master most of them too, the day of say master of none is long gone and will get you killed. I read most of the posts, with some outstanding replies. On the other hand some post I don't agree with, but I do not rate very high in the world so do not lose any sleep over any comments I may have. We are a force mulitplier, not some CA unit, that recruits, trains, assist, advises and leads combat operation in times of war. Those same skill many be employed to prevent war in the form of FID, or may have to conduct unilaterial DA/SR operations. Then you have the "cover letter" of UW that puts all of the above under one blanket. In three tours my team has done at least 5 or 6 full blown unilaterial blowing doors raids, searched well over 400 compounds in a softer manner, 7 special recon mission, called in 15 or so air strikes most without a J-TAC, close to 30 artillery fire missions, led a 500 man host nation "gang" of soldiers across forty km of mountain dismounted receiving airdrops resupplies every two days with only five SF guys, as the only Americans, hunting down pockets AQ/TB in south/central Afghqanistan, issued two ambushes, been ambushed twice, held village meetings, briefed US Generals, state department personnel, PSD duty for both US and Host nation officals, served as QRF for an entire AO, ettended meetings with Paki officials and the list goes on and on. Now this is just normal work for SF in Afghanistan. That's just in resent years, what about in the days prior to the war. Well I've(the detachment as a whole) eaten dinner with two foreign counrties president's, countless ambassador, both US and foreign, and in the same breath planned a teams night out that resulted in rocking the cash bar to the point of passing out in some club of ill rebuked in god only know what country.
Now do you have what it takes
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