What kind of surprised me is that the CG had this program to begin with. My Coastie friends at school were explaining that AFTER the CG sends what are probably some of their best guys to BUDS, foots the bill for all that training, the guys go serve on a SEAL Tm for something like 5-7 YEARS, then they have the option to stay Navy or go back CG... who would want to go back to conventional duty of any type after all of that? Meanwhile, during all this they're still on the CG's books. I don't see the benefit to the CG at all, except to say "hey now we have SOF too."