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Originally Posted by Trapper John
Scooter that's an interesting idea. Could SOCOM be viewed as a pilot scale program for just that?
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We're just as screwed up as everyone else. USASOC, MARSOC, NAVSPECWARCOM, JSOC, and USAFSOC (?) all have their own training and admin functions, many of which overlap and are redundant. Now, if each unit (SF Regiment, SEALs, ect) all combined schools into a joint schoolhouse, with each pipeline cherry picking schools a-la-carte for their pipeline.... I don't know if it would work. But it could. Imagine if there was an initial gut check course for all services. SF could then go to a land nav course jointly run with JSOC for the follow on "selection" portion. Ranger School instead of SUT and the Seal's land warfare training, MOS phase, a joint SERE course, a shared MARSOC / USASOC UW phase, followed by language. Or in another order, however the folks at SWC want to run it. A shared dive program, MFF, and other stuff for advanced schools. Again, just an interesting idea. But it could work for DoD as a whole...although the Marine Corps would be the biggest loser since they would pretty much disappear into the other components of the new organization.