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Originally Posted by The Reaper
...You have to be able to do DA, in order to teach your UW or FID counterparts DA. But those who joined SF primarily to kick down doors and shoot people in the face made a bad career decision. Not that we can't do those things, but by, with, and through is what we do, and what we should be doing.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR
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I am fairly sure this has been covered before but I think it bears repeating giving the topic and misuse of SF.
I polled my SFMS class asking what brought them to SF and what type of team they wanted to go to when they graduated. Overwhelmingly the majority wanted to go to a DA team. The majority of the others listed scuba and HALO teams but still wanted to do DA.
When asked about the core SF missions many of the guys out right said they wanted nothing to do with FID/UW. This mentality was especially pervasive with the 18X's in my class. There is a major problem there.
I remember seeing a video when I was a medic at SOPC which highlighted SF, and 555 in particular, working by, with, and thru the NA at the onset of the war. I remember thinking to myself, "this is what makes SF Special." Now a days its all DA vids that you see highlighting what SF does.
An SF soldier must be able to do DA to do FID/UW but at what cost do we focus on it?
Crip