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Sinister · 12-20-2008, 17:25

I can't speak for the pipeline past 1984, but I can tell you that the SF Qualification pipeline has changed so much it's hard to figure exactly what the fuck it's supposed to produce when.

Ask a Ranger course graduate over the last 50 years and you'll get something fairly close to a core POI (city-mountains-maybe desert-Florida). Ask a battalion's worth of SF troops and there's no rhyme or reason -- every five years (or less) the entire course changes.

MG Shachnow (when he was the JFK CG) was asked what he would want if he could have one single thing to improve the SF pipeline. He answered something like, "Something like a meat thermometer -- we could stick it up the ass of every candidate and it could tell us if the man had what it takes to be an SF Soldier so we could ensure we get return on investment."

12-20-2008, 17:25	#8
Sinister Quiet Professional Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 261	Q Course POI I can't speak for the pipeline past 1984, but I can tell you that the SF Qualification pipeline has changed so much it's hard to figure exactly what the fuck it's supposed to produce when. Ask a Ranger course graduate over the last 50 years and you'll get something fairly close to a core POI (city-mountains-maybe desert-Florida). Ask a battalion's worth of SF troops and there's no rhyme or reason -- every five years (or less) the entire course changes. MG Shachnow (when he was the JFK CG) was asked what he would want if he could have one single thing to improve the SF pipeline. He answered something like, "Something like a meat thermometer -- we could stick it up the ass of every candidate and it could tell us if the man had what it takes to be an SF Soldier so we could ensure we get return on investment."
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