02-13-2005, 15:17
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vermont
Posts: 3,093
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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
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02-13-2005, 15:22
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Maryland during the school year; originally from New York
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Thank you for the responses. You have both given me plenty to chew on.
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02-14-2005, 01:31
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Guerrilla
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Seattle
Posts: 199
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Hi, I'm in a Reserve unit here in Alaska (B CO 411 ENG), and let me say what a fine site this is. I have aspirations of being an SF soldier, and I've been gathering intel for about 6 months. Then I found this site, and the amount of primary source information is staggering. Thank you for your service and keep up the good work.
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02-14-2005, 13:37
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Ft Benning
Posts: 68
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Hello All,
I have been lurking here for a long time, and decided to join and finally post an intro.
I post sometimes at SOCnet and ArmyRanger.com (in the general areas, since I don't claim no SOF experience).
I am a prior service cook, got out back in 01 to finish my degree, and did some time in a Reserve unit.
Currently, I am training again to get back in shape, and submit an OCS packet, since I was naturalized 2 years ago. I am hopping and will be pursuing selection for an IN or EN branch.
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02-14-2005, 15:43
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Fayetteville
Posts: 13,080
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Cooks?
SnafuRacer wrote - (in the general areas, since I don't claim no SOF experience).I am a prior service cook,
Hey buddy;
The A teams may get all the glory, press and pictures but there is a bunch of guys standing behind them. In addition to the regular cast of characters on my B team we usually traveled with a cook, two riggers and a wrench monkey to some of the more remote and interesting places.
Those guys would work as hard if not harder than the regular guys in keeping the A teams in the field and doing "their thing". I treated them as team members and they replied in kind with their hard work.
The cook said he liked going anywhere with us rather than stay at home station. Same with the mechanic so our request went in with their names on it. Got them every time.
It takes all kinds to keep the big green (tan) machine in the field and working.
Pete
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02-14-2005, 18:57
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
Posts: 1,653
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Originally Posted by Jamacee
I am a student at the University of Maryland pursuing two Bachelor's degrees: one in Finance and one in Accounting.
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Yum Yum Chomp Chomp
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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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02-14-2005, 19:12
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Williamston, SC
Posts: 2,018
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Welcome aboard!! I agree with everything that Pete said. The SOG clubs had some of the best chow in country. I only visited FOB-1 Phu Bai a few times thank god otherwise I would have gained 20 pounds in country. Good chow is a real morale booster.
I really missed the days of the company mess rather than a consolidated dining facility. The mess personnel lived right in the same barracks as the rest of the troops and acted accordingly.
BTW: If you get a chance can you show your Combat Spoon Badge to mffjm? 
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02-14-2005, 20:23
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: nc
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New to the board, just saying hello to all.
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02-14-2005, 20:30
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: LA
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Originally Posted by RangerRick
New to the board, just saying hello to all.
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Hi. Welcome aboard.
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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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02-14-2005, 22:56
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Auxiliary
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Ft Benning
Posts: 68
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Thanks for the welcome, gentlemen! I appreciate it.
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02-15-2005, 13:37
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Asset
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Bragg
Posts: 9
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New to board
I have been lurking for awhile but just joined. I'm an 18C awaiting Phase III, just putting my name out there.
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02-15-2005, 14:43
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Originally Posted by Raven
I have been lurking for awhile but just joined. I'm an 18C awaiting Phase III, just putting my name out there.
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Congratulations.
Listen to everything that Ernie T. says and take it to the bank. He has forgotten more about SF Engineering than most of us know.
TR
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02-15-2005, 17:37
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Charlotte, NC
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My name is Clark aka Supe (for Superman), I'm 31, and I've been lurking around here for a few months. I'm an ex-USAF commo guy (mobile SATCOM/Wideband systems), but I've always held an interest in unconventional warfare. I've thought about going the NG SF route, but I've got some work to do in the physical department before trying my hand at it.
My hats off to both current and not-so-current Quiet Professionals for the job you've done and/or are currently doing; your service to our country is greatly appreciated. Also, thanks to all who make this forum what it is. It's a valuable resource that I'm very thankful to be able to utilize.
Last edited by Supe; 02-15-2005 at 19:59.
Reason: choice of words
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02-15-2005, 19:51
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Castle Rock, CO
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Originally Posted by Supe
My hats off to both former and current Quiet Professionals...
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not sure former is appropriate...i prefer to think of it as current and not-so-current Quiet Professionals...
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02-15-2005, 20:10
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Originally Posted by lksteve
not sure former is appropriate...i prefer to think of it as current and not-so-current Quiet Professionals...
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Former, current or retired is fine. Don't let steve pull your chain.
TS
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