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Hello all,
It's great to find this site. I live south of Bragg and the majority of my friends are military, many Airborne, and some SF. I'm here both to help myself understand their world a little, and because I have always been a military history buff. Like somebody said here recently, surround yourself with good people if you want to improve.
As to myself, I was in AFROTC a couple years and was DQed for asthma, otherwise I'd be sitting underground with the keys to some ICBMs now. When they raised the Reserve and Guard enlistment age recently, I started going after a slot in my local Guard Cav troop, but thought better of it because even if some general signed a medical waiver, I might be putting others at risk. Also I ran the numbers and saw that being deployed on E-4 pay trying to cover O-5 bills would not work.
So I went through Basic Law Enforcement Training and became an auxiliary deputy sheriff. That scratched the itch, and I've asked to move to full-time. My day job is lawyering, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn't have bothered with the legal stuff even though I can work my legal career around the patrol schedule.
I'll be lurking much more than posting, but now and then there might be something I can intelligently comment on. Thanks from the Land of the Free to the Brave who serve here and over there.
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