08-24-2006, 20:50
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Guerrilla
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I just wanted to put an update of sorts on where I am in the pipeline. After a few months of e-mails and phone calls with MSGT Edwards and SSGT Shedd and massive amounts of work on their part to secure my discharge from the Air Force, I'm taking the next step. Within the next week or two I will be given the opportunity to interview with the 20th SFG. Not a big step but I'm taking it 25m at a time.
After searching the forums and coming up empty I also wanted to solicit the advice of the QP's on the board as to what to expect from the interview. My current train of thought after reading Get Selected is to treat it like the board at SFAS. This isn't my first rodeo but I have a feeling that this will be unlike any interview I have ever had. Although that might just be a by product of the importance I'm placing on it.
As always any advice would be much appreciated.
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08-24-2006, 20:57
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Not to be too facetious, but in the words of some people you may meet in the future if you are lucky...
Do the best that you can.
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08-24-2006, 21:17
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and don't lie.
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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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09-06-2006, 11:09
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Guerrilla
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I am now the newest member of B company 1/20 SFG. I wish I could say that I went in there and really impressed the hell out of them and that it was thanks to the advice I found here.
In reality I took some advice my father gave me a long time ago, when he said "Son, shut the f**k up".
At the end of the interview I was told "Well, you fit through the door and we need guns. You need some work but we'll take care of that." When he said that last part he gave me an evil little grin.
I went over to MEPS for a new physical, signed my paperwork and took The Oath for the second time. I report to the Non-Qual platoon next month and then head to WTC in January.
25meters down, 25m to go.
Thanks to the QPs here that opened my eyes to possibilities and opportunities.
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Last edited by Loadsmasher; 09-06-2006 at 11:12.
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09-06-2006, 14:10
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Congratulations
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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.
Still want to quit?
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09-06-2006, 14:15
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Good job and good luck.
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"If simple folk are free from care and fear, simple they will be, and we must be secret to keep them so." - JRRT
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09-06-2006, 17:29
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Congrats Loadsmasher!
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09-06-2006, 17:42
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Congratulations, LSmasher
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Is not this the fast that I have choosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Isaiah 58:6,7
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09-07-2006, 07:08
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Smasher -
Was SSG Shedd in the 10th in the 80's?
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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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09-07-2006, 12:18
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x_sf_med,
I don't think SSG Shedd was SF. He was a recruiter for all of Alabama's NG and he wasn't tabbed. I'd also say he was in his early 30's. I was interviewed by SSG Cheney of A co. out of Auburn (schedule conflict at B co.).
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