BSN to 18D
Hey y’all. Been a while since I last posted on here. A little about myself I was a nonselect a few years ago, most likely due to the peer evaluation process, from my point of view it was a popularity contest, (I’m a reserved guy) and lack of being a leader. Everyone is trying to be a leader at SFAS, I thought to myself why not just keep my mouth shut and get to grinding instead of adding my two cents in. Well that obviously didn’t work out. I ETSd and will be receiving my BSN next year. Now there’s no way I’ll be reenlisting with a nursing degree to be an 18x and possibly end up as an 11b. I’ve heard stories of officers giving up their officer status to be an SF NCO. Is this really possible? And if I remember correctly we got to pick MOS preferences, are these really looked at? Is there any 18D’s here that can shed some light on this?
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From your post it is easy to see why you are a non-select.
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Can you elaborate. Eagle5US? I may have come off the wrong way with saying popularity contest. But during team week you can tell who’s friends with who and who gets selected at the end. Regardless of who was more of a team player. If you can’t agree with that you’re lying or you had a team with integrity.
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A team is made up of individuals working together for a common goal, not a bunch of individuals doing their own thing and looking out for themselves Quote:
Poor decision making -> Time effort and money went into your successful completion of a nursing degree, and for what? to give it up and be something else before you have even done that job. Quote:
Poor situational awareness / trying to backdoor the system from non select status - Yes, there are officers (Physicians - not nurses) who have resigned their commission to become SF NCO's, but they still had to endure the entire process, front to back SFAS to GP assignment. No automatics, and being a nurse wouldn't get you an "auto conversion" to SF NCO. And when you are a non-select from SFAS or fail out of the pipeline after resigning your commission...you will be an 11B E-4 instead of a Nurse 2LT Quote:
Yes they are...but they are your "wants"...not necessarily what you are going to get. Quote:
"Nobody likes me so I didn't get picked with the cool kids" NO - YOU failed to meet the minimum standards and should accept personal responsibility for it, do some introspection, and either improve yourself i.e. BE A NURSE or consider that time wasted and move on to something else. You will not be successful in Army Special Forces. I have no need to validate my background to you but I will say I started my team time in 1990 and retired in 2014...including time as SFAS cadre and Phase 1/3 instructor while enlisted and I retired as the 5th SFG(A) PA. You wanted an 18D to shed some insight....there you go. Now, go be successful - as a nurse. You worked hard for it, enjoy the fruits of your labor. |
Eagle5US thank you for taking the time to explain yourself. Ever since I was a nonselect I always thought if I were to go back I would need to bring something to the table, you know make me an asset that the SF community wants. I thought about learning another language. No, I chose to get the training of a nurse, why because being a nurse is an asset! In any sort of environment.
It seems like my post has offended you which I do apologize for. Maybe your right poor timing/waste of resources being nurse wasn’t the best decision to make in order to back door the SF. But do you not think an RN would not make a valuable candidate into the program? And to your response of failing the minimum standards. I tore my sartorial muscle while I was there, but I still put more effort in then others that were selected. I’m not sure what standards I failed during this but I gave it my all and that’s more than what others gave that were selected. |
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As to whether your decision to become a nurse would be an asset to the Team? No, not really, 18Ds are not combat nurses. You would still have many more hurdles to jump over in becoming an 18D and Q-Course graduate. Even if everything you hoped for happened (and you didn’t get inured again) you might still end up as an Enlisted something (91C) in big Army because you failed out of the Q-Course. BTW: ‘Sartorial’ references a tailor or style of clothing, the “Sartorius” is a superficial muscle in the leg allowing you cross your legs or knees while sitting. If you really want to be an SF 18D, join the regular Army in a combat arms MOS (Airborne/Ranger qualified 11B would be best) wait a year or longer and apply for SFAS with strength and determination as your guiding standards. Once you make it past SFAS then ask if 18D training is in store for you - you will possess some valuable skills but more importantly you will then appreciate the opportunity to learn. |
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Lol^ well there’s a common theme here.
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Sartorius boys. iPhone likes to autocorrect.
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Sigh. I coulda but they wouldn’t let me...
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