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Yes. Where does everybody think the term SF Baby originated? It's not new.
My experience in 78 included a number of classmates who were "SF Babies"; straight off the street. A few of them went on to become storied CSMs; others did their duty, quietly rising to positions of trust/responsibility. Some did their time and left after one tour and some were spectacular failures - whether they left early or late. They measured up just like the current generation will 20+ years from now when somebody looks back to "see how it went".
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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