Introductions III - Page 188

Surgicalcric · 02-14-2009, 08:45

Welcome to PS.com and best of luck to your husband.

Crip

Seeker99 · 02-14-2009, 15:52

Hello,
I am 30 years old, married with two kids, and I just rejoined the Army after being out for four years. I want to try out for Special Forces. I have a few questions, and I know that in this web site there are people who can definitely easily answer those questions.

SF_BHT · 02-14-2009, 16:37

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Originally Posted by Seeker99

Hello,
I am 30 years old, married with two kids, and I just rejoined the Army after being out for four years. I want to try out for Special Forces. I have a few questions, and I know that in this web site there are people who can definitely easily answer those questions.

Welcome...... Enjoy the site and enjoy searching and reading it should answer 99.9% of everything you seek. Good Luck.

Hardy · 02-14-2009, 18:18

Hi, I'm an 18 year-old high school senior who will matriculate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Thank you QP's for providing this resource to us young guys.

**Team Sergeant** · 02-14-2009, 21:16

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Originally Posted by Hardy

Hi, I'm an 18 year-old high school senior who will matriculate at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Thank you QP's for providing this resource to us young guys.

You're welcome now go do 100 push-ups, 50 for "us" providing you a great resource and another 50 for making me look up the word, "matriculate".

Team Sergeant

Dozer523 · 02-14-2009, 23:25

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Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

You're welcome now go do 100 push-ups, 50 for "us" providing you a great resource and another 50 for making me look up the word, "matriculate".

Team Sergeant

And fifty more for the ill-advised use of the word "young". Haven't even gotten to the Tech School on the Hudson and you are already acting like a "Nob". Good Luck, Four years on the Hudson can be a looooong time. (Congrats, anyway)

Kosta · 02-15-2009, 02:23

Hello, I'm Kosta*, David to some, and I am a university student. I recently (last few months) made the decision to enlist 18X after I graduate in ~two years for various reasons, so until then I'm getting the best grades I can and training my body to be in the best possible shape for both the APFT and SFAS. I was going to just lurk anonymously, but it occurred to me that it's impolite to hang around someone's house without introducing oneself.

*Short for my middle name, which is Konstantinos. I go by it both because of what it means ("the guy who is constant/reliable/determined/loyal") and because it was the name of my grandfather, a man whom I greatly honor.

dakota · 02-15-2009, 17:08

Hello,
My name is Chris and I have been in the ARMY for about 6.5 years. I am an active duty firefighter currently stationed at Goodfellow Air Force Base. I taught Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen the essentials of military firefighting for about 1.5 years. I moved to the S3 shop in November and am now adding staff experience to my resume. Previously I have served at Fort Hood, at stations 1 and 5. I fought the biggest fire I will ever see at Camp Speicher, in Tikrit Iraq. I am married with 2 wonderful children. I have given the search button here a good workout. This site has a good wealth of information. I appreciate everyone sharing their experiences and answering questions. I look forward to having discussions with anyone willing to share their time. The reason I joined this forum was to gather knowledge about the ARMY Special Forces. I plan on attending SFAS in May.

Karthas · 02-15-2009, 22:14

Good evening,
So far as this forum is concerned, I'm Karthas, a 19 year old sophomore at the University of Kansas, currently studying both film and premedicine (I see no reason to decide between the two as of yet). I enlisted last February so my last semester was spent in IET (Ft. Jackson then Ft. Sam Houston - I'm a 68W). I'm currently in the National Guard - 2/137INF with plans of going active after graduating from college. What was once a passing interest in the special operations community has become a very real interest in the Special Forces (fueled in part by a copy of 'Get Selected' floating around fire guard shifts in AIT and a strong desire to do more). I've been lurking on the forum for the past few weeks and have thus far managed to find the answer to every question I could wish to ask (the medical threads are particularly interesting), so I imagine that this may very well be my last post for some time.

And so, without further ado, Hello.

trunkmonkey · 02-16-2009, 00:44

Hello,
I started browsing through ps.com when I was a PV2 and talked to the SF recruiter that came to our office. At the time I was a 96R (Ground Surveillance Systems Operator) stationed in the very beautiful Fort Wainwright AK. I used the information here on ps.com to come up with new and better ways for our teams to operate on long patrols.

I am now out of the Army and a contractor. Im not the cool contractor that carries fancy weapons and wears a special vest. Im an unarmed instructor over here in Afghanistan. I do occasionally get to work with QPs and as always I am impressed by their dedication and breadth of knowledge.

By the way if any of you run across UGS (Unattended Ground Sensors) in any theater drop me a line and Ill come help.

Dan

SIG · 02-16-2009, 09:26

Hello,
I heard of the site from a friend, figured I would check it out and have so far been very impressed. This past summer I completed a four year contract with the Air Force where I had worked on F-16 Avionics. I had done a fair amount of research regarding what I wanted to do next in the military before leaving the AF and decided SF had my name on it. Joined the army with an Xray contract after one tedious month as a civilian. I was recently selected and was assigned 18E and French (already speak it.)

I don't think I will be doing much posting since I'm new to this whole blog thing and I figure I'll learn more by reading anyways.

Sig.

**Team Sergeant** · 02-16-2009, 10:13

Welcome all.

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Originally Posted by SIG

I don't think I will be doing much posting since I'm new to this whole blog thing and I figure I'll learn more by reading anyways.

Sig.

Sig,

This is a "bulletin board" type of forum, not a blog. Here you just don't "leave a comment" as you would in a blog, here you interact in the discussion, post threads for new discussions, post your comments, opinions, or experience concerning a topic etc. Or as many do, you can just read.

This website is the largest (public) gathering of past and present Special Forces (aka the Green Berets) soldiers on the internet, there is absolutely none larger.

Congrats on being selected.

Team Sergeant

fivesevenfive · 02-16-2009, 11:37

Did 11 years in the Army before getting out last year. Started as a 2LT in the 101st. Went to SFAS in 2000, got to 3/5 SFG(A) in Feb 2003. Did 4 OIF tours.

DOL

JTP709 · 02-16-2009, 11:40

Hello,

I found this site after exploring google, and am thankful for such a resource. I am a prior service Kentucky Army National Guard guy, I was a rep with the MI Company for the 20th SFG(A). I jacked my knee up before I shipped out to AIT, and was medically discharged. That was a year ago and for the longest time I have been working on reenlisting.

I've always had the goal of going to SFAS and pursuing the coveted Green Beret. I've put it off to attend college at Eastern Kentucky University with a major in Homeland Security. However, I feel that this is the best time for me to reenlist as a Rep-63 18x with the 20th Group. I am going to learn as much as I can from this resource and start my journey this summer.

kublai · 02-16-2009, 13:21

I'd like to introduce myself as Paul Lee. I came upon this site as a knife collector and enthusiast of Bill Harsey's work. As such, I do not meddle in the other threads that mainly concern members of our elite forces. I certainly have no place. But I do hope that I can visit here and learn from the few threads I do read, mainly Mr. Harsey's and fellow enthusiasts of his work. Thank you!

Paul Lee