Why go SF?

[Dozer523]

Originally Posted by 11B2V

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[ZonieDiver]

I wanted to go SF because of a way cool SF Captain/Major to whom I was exposed in ROTC. We participated in field excercises that he planned and helped execute in the Florida Everglades with units of the 11th and 20th SFGA's - the caliber of which I did not see until Robin Sage. When I completed SFTG Phase III as the Distinguished Graduate, I visited him - S-3 in one of the 82nd's Brigades - to thank him. I was the second former cadet of his to have received such accolades. To this day, Major Carl Wesneski is and always will be the epitome of what an SF soldier is... to me.

[The Joker91]

I first became interested in SF after reading "Special Forces" by Tom Clancy. I admit that I was uneducated in what QP's do when I started the book, but by the end, I was fully aware of the full spectrum of what ODA's do on a day-to-day basis.

Fast forward to 2004 and my time in Iraq. We were trained in pre-mob by Special Forces (that was when RC Civil Affairs units were under the control of USASOC) in foreign weapons and combatives. They were the best trainers I had seen....period. We also had two QP's in our unit. One was our CSM and he was, in a word, fantastic. The other was a CPT who, unfortunately, I did not work with much while in the sandbox. But when I had to de-mob early (due to a family crisis), it was he who took me drove me to the airport. I mentioned in casual conversation that Robin Sage was starting that night, the gleam in his eyes was something that never left me.

One more reason. Men are judged by the company they keep. To be around men who strive to make themselves better will only make me a better person and a better soldier.

[The Reaper]

Originally Posted by The Joker91

I first became interested in SF after reading "Special Forces" by Tom Clancy. I admit that I was uneducated in what QP's do when I started the book, but by the end, I was fully aware of the full spectrum of what ODA's do on a day-to-day basis.

Fast forward to 2004 and my time in Iraq. We were trained in pre-mob by Special Forces (that was when RC Civil Affairs units were under the control of USASOC) in foreign weapons and combatives. They were the best trainers I had seen....period. We also had two QP's in our unit. One was our CSM and he was, in a word, fantastic. The other was a CPT who, unfortunately, I did not work with much while in the sandbox. But when I had to de-mob early (due to a family crisis), it was he who took me drove me to the airport. I mentioned in casual conversation that Robin Sage was starting that night, the gleam in his eyes was something that never left me.

One more reason. Men are judged by the company they keep. To be around men who strive to make themselves better will only make me a better person and a better soldier.

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TR

This thread has been alive for some time, but not touched since 5/09.

I was born in 64, just a kid to some of the older fellas here. In the spring of 1972, at the tender age of 8, my father greeted a young soldier at our door. Dressed in class A's, jump boots, wearing a Green Beret. My father immediately welcomed and embraced him with a warm and tender hug. I've never seen my father show such intimacy with someone outside our family, and never again to this day. This young man had just returned home from Vietnam, when he learned that his own father had recently died, someone whom my father had served with in Korea.

My father was his 'second' dad, and while I have learned only later in life what it meant to be part of a team, to know the fellowship, love and brotherhood what this community stands for, I will never forget that day.

I enlisted in SF because of a visual image of what commitment stood for, and what TEAM really meant. At 18, I entered college, ROTC was on the list of classes available. There I met another SF soldier, a MSG, my second in 10 years. I thought, these guys are rare indeed. After a semester and 1/2, I was not moving along with what I thought post adolescence should be, most professors were static, no lecture moved me, I longed for thought, not canned expressions of fellow students. I was, for the first time, lost and homesick.

Walking back to my dorm room one afternoon, the MSG pulled over his car and asked if I wanted to join him and a few of his buddies for a BBQ and home time with kids, and few girls and a couple of "moms".

Before the evening was over, I had a chance to view some old photos albums of younger vets now in the living room drinking beer, heard a couple cool stories about a curtain medic who delivered a baby in a small obscure village somewhere, and once in the middle of said story, the room got quiet, a tear fell and a toast was raised to said medic who was no longer with the TEAM. It was not difficult to see that this was a tight group that loved each other as much if not more than thier own families, who understood the ties between them as well as themselves.

I simply wanted that, more than anything else.

When I finally made it to the recruiter, and was given REP63 orders, the Recruiting SGT at MEPS asked me, "Why SF?" I could'nt answer him, how could I, the journey was already to long for a simple answer. Drill Sergeants in Basic asked, my answer was always given in push-ups. It was only when I arrived at Ft. Bragg, NC, a curtain MSG, now SGM found me and said, welcome.

WD

[greenberetTFS]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

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TR

Exactly TR,but no one's paying attention to it....................

Big Teddy

Originally Posted by AJ_Johnson

Got it Wet Dog. Team Sergeant

Go back to your original post "Why go SF?" and find the edit button. Delete the entire paragraph and hope TS does not remind you to follow directions first.

WD

[Team Sergeant]

AJ_Johnson , after you pull your head out of your ass go and re-read our rules.

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Then go and run 10 miles tomorrow.

Team Sergeant

[Utah Bob]

Some men look at SF and ask "Why?"
I looked at SF and asked, "Why not?"

[ZonieDiver]

If going SF is "about you" - it is for the wrong reason.

[Calrngr]

Originally Posted by Utah Bob

Some men look at SF and ask "Why?"
I looked at SFD and asked, "Why not?"

Well put.