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Got to training group Spring 67 just out of Infantry AIT and BAC.
Had to give up the pretty blue cord and brass trim for the plain unassigned stuff of SF.
Lot of us youngsters only had a year or so in and you saw lots of funny things going home on leave that would not have gotten far on the hill.
Hands in pockets were known as Air Force Gloves and would get you 20 likely as not.
Wearing a beret was not a status of training-it was SF or not.
A "terminee" was not authorised a beret.
Some guys flunked out, some screwed up, and some others left for personal reasons.
There was actually a waiting list for 5th Group slots in those days.
Very few went straight to 5th from SFTG. but some did.
I got back in 70 and SF grads were stacked on top of each other in the 7th-5th was downsizing and they were all dressed up with no place to go,
Most had been to every available school, including Ranger, just to keep them busy.
They all had real bad atitudes and it was not a good environment.
Funny remembering that stuff.
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Mike
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