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Originally Posted by Jamacee
I intend to be the best I can be and give everything I have in the time I decide to serve, be it 5 years or 30 years.
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That is admirable and a good way to approach anything. Let me be as direct as I can without sounding like a hard case. First of all, if you want to do your bit in the service please do. I think more folks should stand up and serve in this nation's military. Counting all the current veterans still living and those currently serving less than 8% of this country's population have answered the call to keep this nation free. Secondly, getting into the 18X program, thru the qualification course and into SF is only the beginning. Your ability to perform as a SF soldier comes with continual experience, training, and a level of commitment and effort from every fiber of your physical and mental being. Now there have been many one tour SF soldiers that have been outstanding but times have changed and what it takes today to develop and hone the skills required takes more than your two years in the pipe line and just one tour on a team. Your learning and maturation as a SF soldier begins when you walk through your first team room door and it continues for the remainder of your time until you hang up your rucksack. Now I am not trying to discourage you from attempting that route because you may just find your calling, but making a SF soldier is not like making corn flakes. While there is a common thread that binds them all, they are all masters of their own initiative and motivation to see that the mission is completed and that their commitment to their team is absolute. Someone with a five year horizon in their short range game plan is just not going to have the level of commitment that is needed in SF.
Jack Moroney