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The same holds true for all of our Officers, with the exception of the BC, who has a two year tour, all of our Officers have a three year tour here. They are bounced around from billet to billet within the companies and the BN staff. They are then whisked away to DAO, FAO, and other Liaison billets.

I understand the aspect of an outsider looking in on any given situation; there is going to be some type of bias. Whether the "grass is greener", "that is as messed up as a football bat", or a perception of something in the middle, a preconceived notion will exist. With that being said, from personal interaction with ODAs from 3rd, 5th, and 7th Groups over the past five years, I lean more towards the grass being much greener on your side of the fence. Professionalism, structure, and just they way those teams did business impacted my view of SF.

One of the biggest eye openers was the way teams typically stay together for more than one deployment and how members remain within the same group. This is not only logical, but a necessity IOT build tight knit proficient teams and maintains language and AO expertise. SF, through trial and error I'm sure, has built a blueprint from which MARSOC needs adopt certain aspects. The blueprint coupled with a defined mission set, would allow us to begin molding our SOF warriors and structure to best support SOCOM.

With all "new" concepts there is going to be some amount of conflict and strife, but having the humility to accept and implement the lessons learned by our predecessors within the SOF community, would alleviate much heartache.