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This topic, whether or not the author intended it to so become, points out a key feature of SFAS selection ... and OCS selection .... and Ranger selection .... and ... LIFE.
Don't count on a technology, a gimmick, a current situation/defination/standard to be your sole benchmark of qualification or ability.
Whether it's polypropylene socks, vs. plain old army issue wool; or GPS vs. map and compass; M16A2 vs. M4 vs. FN/FAL; or any other situation or status to define your ability and qualifications as a soldier, get right with the basics and IF the situation allows you to use a more forgiving strategy, change in the future.
I feel like the high school teacher I used to hate: learn long division, you may not have a calculator; learn to take a pulse and measure a temperature ... the skill was important 100 (or 1,000) years ago and will be important 100 (or 1,000) years from now. If you are helpless because you are without your poly socks, or creatine supplement, or because you have never had to get out and perform in Heat Category IV, you need to look somewhere other than Special Forces as a career choice.
End of rant.
CB
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