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It's not the price tag, it's the people. I'd be very interested to see how USASFC and SWC plan to stand up these 5 new SF battalions without lowering the standards. I still carry a card in my wallet emblazoned with the "SOF Truths"----
----Humans are more important than hardware.
----SOF cannot be mass produced.
----Quality is better then quantity.
----Competent SOF cannot be created after emergencies occur.
These are drilled into every SF soldier's (and for that matter SEAL, Ranger, STS, etc) head during his journey through the pipeline. I don't mean to be a nay-sayer, but I can't help but think that we are abandoning the very things that made us great for the interests of political expediency. I hope I'm wrong. Thoughts?
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"I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt...and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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