I have seen members of fires and intel wearing bubbles that more than likely have never been in your mentioned list of MOSs. They are however, unless I'm completely mistaken - holding the same enabler secondary mos we all share. That stated and the mentions of the training possibility from the leadership that have been around much longer than I have would leave me comfortable sharing said information without any BTR reviews or condescending questions.
Go in the locker any day of the week and you'll bump into a pair prepping for the mentioned predive. Most of those guys are support types and I don't think theyre busting their asses in the water to find you somewhere and talk out of it. Your comment about knowing CSOs and Recon Guys who didn't make it doesn't change the fact that these guys did.
Pump your breaks cool breeze. One, those are not my list of MOS they're the Marine Corps laid out in MCO 3150.4. Two, I don't know what you think the enabler secondary MOS for MARSOC means, but it does not mean that you get carte blanch on schools. Three, that leadership thats been around longer than you, would be me. We'll just round it down to 13 years between the Recon and MARSOC community with about three being a Combatant Diver. So when I speak on such things you may want to take note.
Now see where you screwed up is that you started trying to state facts that you don't know. Would you like to tell me how often the Dive locker runs re-qualification dives and or a pre dive? I'll give you a hint its not any day of the week, and for that matter its barely even every other week, if every month.
Then there's the whole most of those guys are support types comment. That being said I never saw ANY support personnel running around Stone Bay with dive bubbles; not in the past four years. Had you said you know of one guy who did it, that might be believable, hell I've been killing people for the past half year or so, so maybe there was a policy change since I've been gone. But if that were the case that would mean that in the past four to five classes there has been a huge influx of support personnel in these courses. That would be interesting considering the MARSOC standing policy on meeting all the pre requisites for MCD, including an MOS that meets the Marine Corps order. As I stated before, the course is a bitch and just like in this community reputation is everything, even the Commands reputation. Do you really think the Command would send personnel down to a school like that without them already meeting the requirements? For that matter when the NOM sheet gets submitted it has to get checked off by a senior 0372 who was a 0321 and MCD graduate for well over a decade. Not sure you understand how their mind works but I can assure you his response upon seeing a NOM sheet like that would not only be no but fuck no.
And now that I think about it your post says there are support guys in PRE-DIVE. Thats good for them but last time I checked pre-dive is not dive school nor does it qualify you to go to dive school. It is a check for the Command to ensure you are physically capable. Hell, we can put anybody through pre-dive all day any day, just like I can put somebody through a pre-sniper or pre-JTAC. But unless they meet all the requirements for those schools ie MOS they aren't going.
Do you even know why non essential personnel aren't allowed to go to MCD and why dive pay is more than static line pay? Its because diving is dangerous as shit, hence the Marine Corps order requiring an MOS that requires a need for the skill set. Last time I checked not a whole lot of need for an intel analyst or truck driver to surreptitiously enter a denied area via sub surface navigation. So next time you'd like to get snippy I suggest you do it in your lane and have all the facts.
