TR,
Quick question Sir: Do you have the verbiage:
With all due respect in return, there are several threads pertaining to 18Xs that delve into this topic.
Respectfully suggest that you start reading down through the threads in this forum, and the other forums within Special Forces, and I think you will see that this is old business. There is no point in starting a new thread and soliciting new comments from people who have already spoken to this topic before, just to save you the trouble of looking for it.
You might also look around and see that many of the members who started posting in these forums as 18X candidates are now QPs, so yes, they are here if you care to look for them.
Situational Awareness and self-motivation will get you far in life.
Best of luck.
and others like it sitting on a digital note pad so you can quickly redirect the young and uninformed? Seems it would save you tonnes of typing. . .

This version is more generous in tone than others I've read from you in the past, but the content remains the same.
cheers,
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