10-24-2006, 12:35
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Longest I ever saw was a guy who took three years to graduate.
Several long med holds with him eventually working in the 1st Battalion S-3 shop.
I think Crip is well on the way to a new record.
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10-24-2006, 12:39
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Longest I ever saw was a guy who took three years to graduate.
Several long med holds with him eventually working in the 1st Battalion S-3 shop.
I think Crip is well on the way to a new record.
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Well, I wish him luck!
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10-24-2006, 13:29
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Longest I ever saw was a guy who took three years to graduate.
Several long med holds with him eventually working in the 1st Battalion S-3 shop.
I think Crip is well on the way to a new record.
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Will he have to reenlist / extend for the good of the service by the time he graduates, or will he be ready for retirement?
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10-24-2006, 13:47
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OUCH!! You guys are relentless.
Keep it up guys and you wont be getting an invitation to my retirement...err...I meant my graduation.
And for the record there are a couple guys in the 18-D course who have been in the course (SFQC) longer than I. There is also a Bravo who just graduated who had been in the course 4 years. 
With the changes to language school and the round-about way the 18D's are getting shafted (with all other MOS's taking language blocks during PH-III) it will take 7 months for me to get thru a 4 month language because once I graduate the medic course in Feb I get teamed up with a student ODA that hasnt been to CLT (PLDC/BNCOC) yet. And I cant attend Sage til they are completely done with CLT, SFPC, PH-II, PH-III, and Language. Sooo I may set a new record.
Crip
(Happy to be in the SFQC)
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10-24-2006, 13:54
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Crip-
Hope you get lots of clinical time in the Womack ER to keep your skills up, Fri and Sat nights are usually pretty good. The Docs will love you, the nurses are jealous but forgiving.... and the young female 91Hs might be all over you. If we didn't think you'd make it, we wouldn't be feeding you 4 courses of crap sandwiches, would we? Now go study your languages, and put in for clinical rotations at Womack.
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In the business of war, there is no invariable stategic advantage (shih) which can be relied upon at all times.
Sun-Tzu, "The Art of Warfare"
Hearing, I forget. Seeing, I remember. Writing (doing), I understand. Chinese Proverb
Too many people are looking for a magic bullet. As always, shot placement is the key. ~TR
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10-24-2006, 14:14
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I can take it...
Actually I am trying to go to either Ft Sam or Ft Carson on SOC-T rotations. I need a break from Ft Bragg. I have a feeling I will be doing sick call rotations at Clark Clinic while awaiting SERE and Sage... 
I am trying to learn enough French to DLPT out of language school so I dont get caught up in the Charlie Foxtrot that seems to have become language blocks. Ive been studying on my own using the Rosetta Stone stuff along with the language material I received at the SOAF after SFAS. The reading and listening is coming along but the speaking isnt so much.
Had I drawn Spanish I would have it whipped by now. I could eat at Mi Casita's and watch TeleMundo and learn the language. No slight intended toward the 7th Group guys, but there are alot more opportunities to learn Spanish here than there are for French.
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11-05-2006, 14:36
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Actually I am trying to go to either Ft Sam or Ft Carson on SOC-T rotations. I need a break from Ft Bragg. I have a feeling I will be doing sick call rotations at Clark Clinic while awaiting SERE and Sage...
I am trying to learn enough French to DLPT out of language school so I dont get caught up in the Charlie Foxtrot that seems to have become language blocks. Ive been studying on my own using the Rosetta Stone stuff along with the language material I received at the SOAF after SFAS. The reading and listening is coming along but the speaking isnt so much.
Had I drawn Spanish I would have it whipped by now. I could eat at Mi Casita's and watch TeleMundo and learn the language. No slight intended toward the 7th Group guys, but there are alot more opportunities to learn Spanish here than there are for French.
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What Group do you want to go to?
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11-05-2006, 22:06
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He's going to be in the Senior Citizen's Group if he doesn't hurry the hell up!
He thought he was a reservist, but my and Reaper's Plan worked to a "T". He's been in training so long, all his reasons for not going AD are OBE. 
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He knows only The Cause.
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11-05-2006, 23:16
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"A Government that is losing to an insurgency is not being outfought, it is being out governed." Bernard B. Fall
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11-06-2006, 06:06
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You guys are killing me...
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11-06-2006, 08:46
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Can you be a FOG while still in the pipeline? 
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11-06-2006, 08:48
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Maybe he could be grandfathered in to the Warrant Officer program. Since he's also spent more time at the SWC than the instructors, maybe he'll be exempt from SWC Cadre instructor time.
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11-06-2006, 09:07
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Can you be a FOG while still in the pipeline?
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
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11-06-2006, 12:13
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"A Government that is losing to an insurgency is not being outfought, it is being out governed." Bernard B. Fall
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11-06-2006, 13:03
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Maybe he could be grandfathered in to the Warrant Officer program. Since he's also spent more time at the SWC than the instructors, maybe he'll be exempt from SWC Cadre instructor time.
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Who the hell are you to make such comments about me?
If you had any SA about you, you would have noticed those guys giving me crap are either QP's or guys that otherwise know me. That being said, maybe since you a) neither know me or the circumstances surrounding my having been here as long as I have or b) arent here (in the SFQC) living "The Dream" you should consider keeping your comments to yourself.
If you want to talk the talk then you need start walking the walk. Until then stay in your lane; this one is Cleared Hot.
Have a very SF day.
Crip
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