[uscav_scout]

Hello all,

I have been reading for some time, using the search button to find the answers I need. This has been a great resource for me and I just wanted to thank everyone here for contributing.

As it stands now, I am a 19D in an infantry brigade headquarters company. I am slotted as a driver. I am also a college student, about 30 hours shy of my degree. For years I have been mulling this over and I have finally decided to be honest with myself, take the step towards the thing I want more than all else.

I am here because I have become disenchanted with civilian life, feeling like I am not doing all I can to change the world, to rid it of evil. My time in the military has been a disappointment since I left OSUT. When I arrived at my unit, I came to the realization that I was no longer in the army I had signed up for. From watching half of the senior NCOs failing the APFT, to getting gruff from a Cadet because he was being paid as an E-5, I no longer felt like I was a soldier in a military unit, but a soldier "playing army" with people who forgot what it meant to be a soldier.

As it stands now, on Monday I am dropping off my 368, and god willing I will be enlisting in the active army, into the 18X program.

I understand that this isn't going to be like some Rambo movie, where I gut my enemy with a machete, or take him down with homemade bow and arrow. I know there is now glamor in being a Special Forces soldier. I know its going suck. I am going to be wet, cold and hungry. I know I am going to ache and hurt, but thats fine, thats the price I am willing to pay, to save those that are oppressed, and are to weak to save themselves. This isn't something I want to do, this is something I have to do.

I'll keep you all posted on the status of my 368, my enlistment, and any training dates I get.

I'd like to thank you all for listening, to thank those that have severed, are serving or plan to take the oath.

I must go now, I have a calling I need to prepare for.

Regards,
SCOUT OUT