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Re-examine your priorities
If short deployments and maximizing time at home are your most pressing concerns, then Special Forces is probably not for you. Before you even get to that point---service on an SFODA----you have to get through an arduous 2 year selection and training pipeline. It will tax your physical, mental, and emotional resources to the utmost. If you pass and join the SF Regiment, then the tests really begin. Are you ready for that kind of commitment? More importantly, is your family ready for that kind of commitment?
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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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