[futureSoldier]

Referring back to the original post... this is still going on today. I had a soldier who was an 18x and got hurt in the pipeline. He did everything right after he got here-consistently scored over a 300 on his pt, always did more than what was asked of him, and most importantly he studied hard and became 1/1 in Arabic. He put his paperwork in for Psyops at the last minute and got picked up. First he was threatened of the consequences of what his life would be here after his packet was pulled from Psyops by the CSM. Then I was threatened by the BC about the same thing and that "If you want to redeem yourself from this, you need to make sure that he does not go through with this-whatever it takes." The anger over this was in the name of stopping him from "deserting the unit" 8 months out from deployment. Point is, the guy did EVERYTHING right and still was almost stopped. It didn't matter that the whole reason he was even serving was to be in the SOF community and that he re-uped as soon as he was picked up by Psyops-everyone won and the unit was still furious that someone would consider to go outside of the norm. He was not stopped-he left and until the BC left I never made it out of the doghouse because I told him that there was nothing I would/could do to stop him.

Side note-this guys good buddy was selected in November. He was treated the same way. Pretty much "you tried to better yourself outside of the unit-go to hell."