
07-01-2006, 02:26 PM
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Lieutenant Colonel
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: US
Posts: 1,599
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Let me clear up a few bits of misinformation you have been given.
There are two roads to Special Forces. The 18X contract or putting in an SFAS packet once you're already in the service.
You will have to qualify for the 18X contract (which, with your score it is doubtful that you have, so I suggest you study a bit more) .. attend Infantry OSUT, BAC (airborne school), attend and pass SFAS (SF selection), and then the SFQC.
You cannot volunteer to be an SF Medic (18D). 18 series MOSes are handed out, as in, assigned to you. Getting 18D is just the luck of the draw.
If you fail any portion of the 18X pipeline, you will become an 11 series (Infantry) (not a truck driver) and will most likely be assigned to an airborne infantry unit (82nd Abn Div. takes most).
SF Medics and Air Force PJs (Pararescuemen) are the best trained SOF medics the US military has. Both require intelligence, creativity and discipline to complete their training regimen.
As for the comment concerning rolling through Anbar waiting for Haji to "blow you up." We have lost several SF soldiers to IEDs. If you think joining SF exempts you from patrols and IEDs, you are sadly mistaken.
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