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Originally Posted by Richard
I was drafted and after 5 days of testing, immunizations, and such, took the SF test. I was then discharged and re-enlisted as a volunteer for SF (12B changed to 91B after completing Phase 1). The BIG threat of not finishing SFTG was to be sent to the Eighty-Twice (11B), 20th Engineer Brigade (12B), the 44th Medical Brigade (91B), or the 50th Signal Battalion (05B). And if you REALLY pissed somebody off, you got sent to the Tilted Shithouse (1st Corps Support Command). 
Richard  |
I was a volunteer, not a draftee, but the SF recruiter got me in BCT at Ft. Lewis in Jan '70. AIT Inf at Ord, Airborne, and SF. We feared washing out and being sent not to the "Eighty-Twice," but to the "Almost Airborne"! (We had some other names for the 82nd, too.) My conventional infantry time came later, after deactivation of 8th SFGA.