Does the "Regular Army" hate SF?

[69harley]

Originally Posted by 1stindoor

Rangers, by that I mean the Regiment, have had a love/hate relationship with us for years. Primarily because their "best" tended to migrate over to our side of the Army.

Another perspective from inside the Ranger Regiment: Many fire team and squad leaders left the Rangers to join SF because they were never going any higher the regiment. Same thing with guys in the 82nd. SF offered a fresh start, long hair and oakleys. Almost everyone I knew in the Ranger Regiment and the 82nd that left to go to SF did so so for what I thought were the wrong reasons.

[Ret10Echo]

Originally Posted by 2pnoty03

I had to let my detailer and CO know I was going blue to green last week. That was bad enough. Then I requested liberty for the SFRE and the shit hit the fan. The only way to look at it is a challenge to overcome. Senior 18A I talked to said this, "Those that can't, won't support." It seems to just be a fact of life.

Seems to me that the closer the "regular" military is to the SF world, the more harsh the feelings.

I came over as a comms guy in a armor unit. Even as a section chief I was give a huge amount of leeway in my schedule to train, to the point where the BC and CO were going to arrange for me to get to the West for some land nav work (I was in Berlin at the time).

Being in Group the only real angst I witnessed was usually from the unit leadership as we were generally seen as a poor example to their soldiers. On occasion that may have been true, on other occasions it was totally undeserved. I had a large-army-unit XO harass me endlessly while working LNO duty for the SOCCE (I was in the Division TOC). It was fun and games until he put a round in the clearing barrel. I think me smiling at him and snickering for the 48 hours it took for his extraction were the most painful time of his life. You know what they say about Karma...