06-29-2005, 21:27
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Area Commander
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Casper,
Thank you for your service. I'm with TS next time your in Arizona let me know and the beer is on me.
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06-29-2005, 22:15
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#1082
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Casper, forewarned and all that, if you go drinking with the TS and Joe at the same time, no crying when you wake up in a Mexican jail, naked, with a new tattoo and a 18X contract. And we will hold you to the contract...
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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06-29-2005, 22:29
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#1083
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Gun Pilot
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Iowa and New Mexico
Posts: 2,143
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Welcome aboard, Casper.
Terry
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06-29-2005, 23:40
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Asset
Join Date: May 2005
Location: NJ
Posts: 1
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Introduction
First, I'd just like to thank everyone for their service.
I've just submitted a packet for OCS. I was thinking about the idea of 18X enlistment, but preferred to go the officer route and be evaluated as an officer if given the chance to attend selection.
Present goal: To give back to my country everything it has helped me become. (from being homeless to becoming a business executive and being a part-time college professor).
By the way, my fiancee thinks I'm nuts -- oh well.
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06-30-2005, 01:59
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#1085
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Akron, OH
Posts: 1
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Introduction
Greetings, Nice to meet all of you.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
"Si vis pacem, para bellum"
Last edited by FreedomIsntFree; 06-30-2005 at 10:30.
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06-30-2005, 06:15
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Read the stickies and use the Search button here. You are not the first to ask all of these questions.
BTW, there is no 18X for Guard Service.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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06-30-2005, 07:11
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Pinehurst
Posts: 253
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Originally Posted by The Reaper
BTW, there is no 18X for Guard Service.
TR
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Sir,
I don't mean to appear combative, but isn't the Rep-63 program very similar to the 18x program?
But, I would think for a guardsman with prior AF service it would make sense to sign with a guard group such as the 2/20th and work with their Det-1 program, then go to 11B school and attend SFAS when the cadre determine you are adequately prepared.
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06-30-2005, 08:09
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Castle Rock, CO
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Originally Posted by Prester John
I don't mean to appear combative, but isn't the Rep-63 program very similar to the 18x program?
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no...Rep-63 is not SF specific...
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""A man must know his destiny. if he does not recognize it, then he is lost. By this I mean, once, twice, or at the very most, three times, fate will reach out and tap a man on the shoulder. if he has the imagination, he will turn around and fate will point out to him what fork in the road he should take, if he has the guts, he will take it.""- GEN George S. Patton
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06-30-2005, 08:48
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BANNED USER
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 238
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Originally Posted by Prester John
Sir,
I don't mean to appear combative, but isn't the Rep-63 program very similar to the 18x program?
But, I would think for a guardsman with prior AF service it would make sense to sign with a guard group such as the 2/20th and work with their Det-1 program, then go to 11B school and attend SFAS when the cadre determine you are adequately prepared.
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NO, Rep 63 & 18X are not similar. Rep 63 allows civilians to be in a National Guard unit & train with them before they go to BCT. Once a slot is open then they go.
The 18X program is an Active Duty program where civilians sign up for a 5-Year Active Duty contract. They get sent to BCT, AIT, SOPC, Airborne School & SFAS. If they are not selected, they are assigned to an infantry unit to serve out the rest of their 5-Year Active Duty obligation.
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06-30-2005, 16:22
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Asset
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 12
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Originally Posted by NousDefionsDoc
Casper, forewarned and all that, if you go drinking with the TS and Joe at the same time, no crying when you wake up in a Mexican jail, naked, with a new tattoo and a 18X contract. And we will hold you to the contract...
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NDD, I will consider myself forewarned and situationally aware. To the best of my ability, I will not allow TS and Smokin Joe's shenanigans to introduce me to the sweet luxuries that Federale institutionalization may have to offer, naked or otherwise!
However, tattoos and contracts...that's a different path, now isn't it? 
Have a great day!
And TS and SJ, I will hold you two gents to that first and second round, it's been a long, long dry year!
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"The only way out is through." - Robert Frost
"The hardest thing I have ever done is shut my mouth and listened." - Me
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06-30-2005, 17:58
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#1091
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Bladesmith to the Quiet Professionals
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Oregon, Land of the Silver Grey Sunsets
Posts: 3,886
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Originally Posted by Casper
NDD, I will consider myself forewarned and situationally aware. To the best of my ability, I will not allow TS and Smokin Joe's shenanigans to introduce me to the sweet luxuries that Federale institutionalization may have to offer, naked or otherwise!
However, tattoos and contracts...that's a different path, now isn't it?
Have a great day!
And TS and SJ, I will hold you two gents to that first and second round, it's been a long, long dry year! |
Casper,
Welcome aboard.
I'll come along on the beer detail, this way you'll be safe from any shenanigans.
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06-30-2005, 19:55
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Casper,
Welcome aboard.
I'll come along on the beer detail, this way you'll be safe from any shenanigans.
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LOL, yeah right.
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Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimal food or water, in austere conditions, training day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon and he made his web gear. He doesn't worry about what workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. This True Believer is not concerned about 'how hard it is;' he knows either he wins or dies. He doesn't go home at 17:00, he is home.
He knows only The Cause.
Still want to quit?
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06-30-2005, 20:17
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: east coast
Posts: 607
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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
Casper,
Welcome aboard.
I'll come along on the beer detail, this way you'll be safe from any shenanigans.
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Bill Harsey - "BEER CHAPERON" Good Lord I can even picture the business cards.
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06-30-2005, 21:46
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Chicago, Illinois/Alexandria, VA
Posts: 2
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Greetings, Gents
First post to the site; filled out my profile, been lurking for a little while. I use the same nick on airborneranger.com. Looks like an excellent resource, thanks in advance for all the effort.
Upon arriving home from OIF II, I got back to my civilian job, turned on my computer and thought "This is STUPID. What are you DOING HERE?" So, I quit my job and I've been working out like a crazy man ever since, getting ready for 20th Group Tryouts and SFAS. Rather than being a Cog in the Wheels of Industry, the New Goal is to complete SFAS, 18D and following that become a PA (in the civ world only).
This has always been a goal of mine, but one thing or another has continually put it off - until now. Though I'm almost 37, I'm in great shape and it's time.
Looking forward to conversing with the members here, looks like a lot of excellent experience.
Last edited by F425; 06-30-2005 at 21:59.
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07-01-2005, 01:17
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Colorado
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Originally Posted by Smokin Joe
Casper,
Thank you for your service. I'm with TS next time your in Arizona let me know and the beer is on me.
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Make it three.......... Welcome to the site Casper.
No problems casey. I'll fill in as chaperon to the "BEER CHAPERON."
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Brad...
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