03-22-2006, 22:52
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Ft. Benning 20060407
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18x
Hello everyone.
The name is Snake Charmer as you have read.
Joined this forum for information pertaining to the MOS I would love to be a part of.
I was a metal building mechanic that walked 4" wide steel beams for a living setting purlins and everything else having to do with roof/wall sheets.
I wanted to get my contract back (I was originally signed for '03 but, finally went to night school last semester to get my 2 half credits I needed to get my diploma...long story; stupid adolescence).
So here I am, starting BCT 20060407. I hope to see some of you soon! Good day and God bless!
-Snake Charmer
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03-23-2006, 10:25
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: G-Ville, FL
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Greetings all,
I'm just reading up on the SFAS info so I can figure out whether to go in as a 68P or an 18X and hope for 18D eventually although I'll probably have to be a 18b or 18c first. Leaning with 18X because it's a little more active.
Oh, I go by zfynxs b/c I have yet to run across someone else with the screen name.
Thank you all for your good info.
Last edited by zfynxs; 04-13-2006 at 22:44.
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03-23-2006, 13:12
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: America, the Beautiful
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Originally Posted by zfynxs
Greetings all,
I'm just reading up on the SFAS info so I can figure out whether to go in as a 68P or an 18X and hope for Delta. Leaning with 18X because it's a little more active.
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Pretty diverse choices...one relatively sedate (sitting in a hospital reading x-rays) vice SF.
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Originally Posted by zfynxs
Oh, I go by zfynxs b/c I have yet to run across someone else with the screen name.
Thank you all for your good info.
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Just curious, how is zfynxs pronounced? "FINKS"?
...or is it like Prince's symbol/name? 
Regardless, welcome aboard.
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03-23-2006, 21:47
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Asset
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: G-Ville, FL
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Sir, its derived from sphinx, and pronounced like the word zinc with es on it. I got it originally for a hotmail account that i let expire but still use so i only have one user name to remember.
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03-24-2006, 11:15
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Hello, So here is my indroduction
I am a senior in college in Vermont. I enlisted in the Army in Nov and can not wait to get out of school and ship. My plan was to go 18x but I didn't get it because I don't have 20/20 vision. Instead I took an option 40 contract as 11x. I am looking forward to this but was disappointed about the 18x because SF is my final goal. I have studying hard and training harder and am looking forward to the information on this site.
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03-24-2006, 17:03
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Asset
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Bakersfield, ca
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Hello everyone
I am new here, I am not SF.
Former USAF - Security Policeman 1976-1980.
Thank you all for your service.
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03-24-2006, 20:05
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vermont
Posts: 3,093
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Welcome all!
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Wenn einer von uns fallen sollt, der Andere steht für zwei.
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03-25-2006, 14:10
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 1
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New member with question
Hey everyone,
I'm new here and looking for advice. I'm interested in the 18x program and the NG. I took my ASVAB and got a high enough score but my recruiter keeps telling me that 18X is only for active members (I thought all members of the NG were active) and that it's better for me to go 11B and after training transfer to a state with a SF training group and join the REC. Is that really the best way? is there no way I can enlist under 18X? (i'm in NY and there isn't a sf group here)
thanks
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03-25-2006, 14:20
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Peter:
Fill in your profile, read the stickies, intros, etc., use the search button here and if you absolutely cannot find the answer, put your question in the proper forum. This thread is for intros.
Good luck.
TR
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03-26-2006, 08:26
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Asset
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
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Finally made the choice
Joining B 2/20th SFG as an NQP this week.
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03-26-2006, 13:05
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Jaw-Juh (that's "Georgia")
Posts: 887
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New Guy
I was browsing the internet and found this site. I am a retiree, living in Atlanta now. I was a former member of ODA 744 back in the 90's. After reading through a couple of posts I decided to join up. I look forward to corresponding with you all.
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03-26-2006, 13:41
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 20,929
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Originally Posted by Don
I was browsing the internet and found this site. I am a retiree, living in Atlanta now. I was a former member of ODA 744 back in the 90's. After reading through a couple of posts I decided to join up. I look forward to corresponding with you all.
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Welcome Don.
There's a "few" 7th Gp types hanging around. (I think they're taking over the place!)
Team Sergeant
5th Gp 
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03-26-2006, 15:17
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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thanks so much for the criticism and auto punking have a nice day
Last edited by 18xSic_Muther; 03-26-2006 at 18:52.
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03-26-2006, 15:30
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Originally Posted by 18xSic_Muther
hey all, today i went on myspace and asked about some advice to SF and got the link to this site. so far this site seems to be one of the best resources ive found. my name is carl and live in york pa. i enlisted in the active duty army in september and got an 18x contract the week before they discontinued it for highschool students. i thank the good lord that i enlisted when i did. i go to school for law enforcement at a technical school in york. the class is taught by an SF vetran whose a mentor to me since my father passed away. he motivated me to shoot for the best and never quit. Ill make SF or have to be carried out in a body bag. thanks to all of those who serve or have served wearing the green beret. HOOAH
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No, now see, this is all wrong. Read the introductions from those that have served, then read yours again. You should have used the others for a model. Edit this and try again. The e.e. cummings routine isn't encouraged around here either.
When you have picked your new user name, PM an admin and we will change it for you.
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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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03-26-2006, 15:47
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Originally Posted by 18xSic_Muther
hey all, today i went on myspace and asked about some advice to SF and got the link to this site. so far this site seems to be one of the best resources ive found. my name is carl and live in york pa. i enlisted in the active duty army in september and got an 18x contract the week before they discontinued it for highschool students. i thank the good lord that i enlisted when i did. i go to school for law enforcement at a technical school in york. the class is taught by an SF vetran whose a mentor to me since my father passed away. he motivated me to shoot for the best and never quit. Ill make SF or have to be carried out in a body bag. thanks to all of those who serve or have served wearing the green beret. HOOAH
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ThugmastaXtaC/18xSic_Muther:
You are coming across as very immature, lacking education, and unsure of yourself. Read your own profile and post. Look in the upper right corner of this page. See the words, "Quiet Professional"? Do your own words strike you as something written by a man who wants to be a quiet professional? Or some kind of tacky, drug abusing, self-effacing, wannabe rock star?
Talk is cheap, my grandmother wants a green beret. You have done nothing yet to prepare yourself and have taken no significant step on your journey. Getting the contract is no real feat. Completing your part of it is.
The attributes you are displaying so far are not wanted in SF, hence our decision to discontinue taking younger, less educated enlistees into SF. They just were not what we were looking for, and were wasting too much training time trying to get them to wise up. Many of them may eventually make it into SF, after a few years in an infantry unit.
I highly recommend that you follow NDD's instructions, consider the way you are presenting yourself, and get your stuff together before you move any further down the road, to include more posts here. He is a medic and as such, is a much nicer guy than I am. And he knows things, trust me.
Have a very SF Day.
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
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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