[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

Interesting article and I have seen this before somewhere else. Seems to me everyone in the SF community knows this and agrees with it. Along with the problem of non-SF folks in charge and those that wear SF tabs that were grandfathered as SF qualified back in the days of the birth of the branch so that they could be "competitive" as 18s where they were not in their basic branches at the time because of repetitive assignments in SOF related activities in the black community, SF does not have a powerful mouth-piece to educate the unwashed. SF also has done a good job in eating their own and does not understand how the "Army" operates polictically and the folks like Dick Potter who knew what buttons to push ,and pushed them hard, are no longer around to irritate the hell out of the Army Staff to make things happen. So this is a double edged sword and while the Army doesn't understand SF, SF doesn't understand or play well with others in the Army. This is one of the biggest drawbacks of the 18 series when it comes to the "Os". While we all know what it takes to grow an 18A and we all want them to go thru all the 18A career progression steps we have made a major trade off here when it comes to dealing with the unwashed as long as SF is seen as an Army force and the Army is part of the bill payer for SF's existence.