I don't know the answer to your question. I guess, in part, it would depend on the content of the tatts!
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I apologize, but I hope that everyone out there takes a moment to think back to when they were not yet a Quiet Professional, and were apprehensive about signing away 4 years of their lives, and take a moment to understand that I am in that position.
I would GLADLY serve on an ODA and would gladly put in the years of training and hard work to do so, but I am not willing to sign a contract unless I know that serving on an ODA is even an option.
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I think back to when I was not a QP very often. When I became a QP, we didn't even call it QP. I enlisted in January 1970. I had, in the back of my mind, the idea that I would LOVE to become a Special Forces soldier. I never thought for a minute, at that time, that I would be able to complete that goal... hell, dream!
That is not why I enlisted. I enlisted to serve my country as a soldier in the United States Army. I would have been proud to have served in any way the Army deemed necessary, and after the deactivation of the 8th SFGA, I got that chance as an airborne infantryman, and then a leg infantryman. I will be proud of my service as an infantryman until my dying day.
There are few things that may happen in your life that you will "KNOW" for sure! Know that fact above all else. IF the chance to become a QP is not worth the "risk" of having to demean yourself as a lowly 11B, then, by all means... don't do it.
You will do yourself, Special Forces, and the Infantry a service by making that decision now. I think "Law" is the perfect place.