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Originally Posted by HardRoad
The accession board has generated a lot of hard feelings in the NG (at least in my little part of it.) The message it delivers to an NG SF soldier is that USASFC thinks that "you're good enough to go man a team house in Afghanistan or Iraq without cert /val, because we need to ease the AD rotation schedule, but if you want to hang out with us back at Bragg, you'll have to pass some extra tests."
I know of several SF troops who decided not to go AD because of that - not because they didn't think they could make it past the board, but because they didn't like the idea that they had to step off the plane from Afghanistan after a seven month tour on an A-team, and go get screened to see if they were good enough to be on an A-team.
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Yes,
My buddy felt that way when he went AD to 1st Group. He did a tour in OEF with us. 1st Group asked our group for volunteers and our company gave up 4 guys and deployed with 1st Group ODA's to OIF. He wanted to go AD to 1st Group during his tour and had exactly the same scenerio you painted. The only difference was that he stuck it out and later on went to 1st Group.
Now, the trend is guys to do the long walk, and we had two guys make it and just got put on orders only for one year. The one year order is odd to me.