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OldMan
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Wow SF med..you're a real sweetheart, but your remarks are very incendiary. So much for the "quiet professional". And I take great personal offense that you made every effort to call me a liar (re: "Something is not right here, you need to be honest and upfront about your background")
So this is not really how I wanted the introduction to go, I only put in my intro what I thought was expected, but nonetheless - you're gonna get exactly what you asked for. So how do you like your worms? Pan-seared, sauteed, broiled? I prefer them Buffalo style, with habanero, so you can feel the burn. As a medic, I'm sure you can remedy that.
Now, you might recognise from my moniker that I'm no spring chicken, my ears dried up a ling time ago. I got off active duty (92Y) back in 1999. Before the war. When Iraq happened I was almost a senior in college. And I mean a real college, not some bull**** online school designed only to give any moron promotion points. Finished my first degree in Mass Communications (Advertising/Public Relations), during which time I worked in an Advertising Department where I was eventually promoted to manage that office. Concurrently, I also was in the National Guard doing Public Affairs. We were never deployed when I got out in '04. I was never mos-q, they let me stay because of my degree. I finished college and the army at the same time. Worked in PR forbade year and went back to grad school, where I studied Anthropology, which is inclusive of a lot of psychology and theology. So you can ask your PsyOps guys if I know the material.....
After Grad school, I decided I wanted more challenges. I wanted to be a scout since forever and just decided that's the way it had to be. But no one would put a 92Y in a 19D slot. So I came back in '09 as a 92Y, worked myself over to a RSTA unit and after 3 long years of paperwork moving at national guard speed, I finally got my Stetson. And I'm happy.
I was even more happy that my unit was going to deploy this year in fact! I was finally going to be a real scout. And when our deployment papers came down the wire, the budget opened up like Pamela Andersons shirt on Baywatch.
Now, I have good relations with my leadership and they know I can do the work. I was 3 times scheduled for Pathfinder actually. It was pulled last June and last November. In Nov, they quickly put me in Javelin since it cost a lot less. And I got WLC bc I told them I needed training - I already had the point from time in service and college to be promoted. So I went to WLC. In March, they sent 12 of us to Air Assault. I would have gone 35M instead but it was a last minute deal and they couldn't finish paperwork in time. So after they had given my seat at AA away, I actually got it back when 35M fell through. To substitute for the 35M loss, we sent 4 guys to COIST. Hardly an adequate trade off, but whatever.
I got scheduled and reserved for Pathfinder in June and had COIST in May. They asked me if I wanted RSLC instead of those 2, the times conflicted. I chose Pathfinder not bc of the darn badge, but bc it is much harder to get.
Now our deployment was cancelled for October. We're all sitting here hummed out, and I hate that I have no deployment. So I want to go SF on order to do something.
So my unit knows me, trusts that I can pass the courses with ease, and has lined me up for them. But we all know how easily those hopes can be dashed bc some commander decides its more important to uit money into a new weight room rather than training. However, I know that ARC is a priority, that is the only course I am most likely to attend now that budget cuts are happening. That's why I scheduled RSLC for the very beginning of the Fiscal Year, to try and hold on to it. I'd say odds for RSLC is pretty slim, but for ARC it is pretty good. And for ALC it is 50/50. We'll see.
I git the RSLC slot bc I just got up'ped to e5 and moved to another unit, a rival unit. So I asked my training NCO to put me in, and just inspire of my new unit, he did (and he was sure not to put me into a unit slot which would have stayed with the unit when I left, but my slit is at brigade bc we git cinnections, so that strengthens my position, and gives me more hope that I'll actually attend). In the end though, its a win for everyone.
As for you. I came here bc you got it backwards. I'm not going to formally make any declarations to the SF recruiters until I get my ducks in a row. This IS the leg work. I'll go see a recruiter when I'm good and damn ready and that's none of your business.
But I can see you've been hurt before. You're a tender child and that's why you cry and complain. Unfortunately, I lack empathy. I'm an old man, too old to give a shi* about your feelings. So, if I get to go to the Q, I hope you're there. I hope you're my medic. I'll let you be the first one to smoke me (I can see that you can't handle anything, so I won't be intimidated.)
"Fear not those things which can harm the body, rather, fear that which causes you to lose your soul." - Jesus Christ
S enjoy the worms, enjoy them one at a time. Enjoy the burn.
I won't avail myself to answer any more of your pedantic questions though. Better to get your own issues in order before you go trying to pick on others for having more success. It didnt take 14 months, it took 13. You can check that on ATRRS. So eat your worms. Eat them one at a time. It's the only comfort you will find.
So this is not really how I wanted the introduction to go, I only put in my intro what I thought was expected, but nonetheless - you're gonna get exactly what you asked for. So how do you like your worms? Pan-seared, sauteed, broiled? I prefer them Buffalo style, with habanero, so you can feel the burn. As a medic, I'm sure you can remedy that.
Now, you might recognise from my moniker that I'm no spring chicken, my ears dried up a ling time ago. I got off active duty (92Y) back in 1999. Before the war. When Iraq happened I was almost a senior in college. And I mean a real college, not some bull**** online school designed only to give any moron promotion points. Finished my first degree in Mass Communications (Advertising/Public Relations), during which time I worked in an Advertising Department where I was eventually promoted to manage that office. Concurrently, I also was in the National Guard doing Public Affairs. We were never deployed when I got out in '04. I was never mos-q, they let me stay because of my degree. I finished college and the army at the same time. Worked in PR forbade year and went back to grad school, where I studied Anthropology, which is inclusive of a lot of psychology and theology. So you can ask your PsyOps guys if I know the material.....
After Grad school, I decided I wanted more challenges. I wanted to be a scout since forever and just decided that's the way it had to be. But no one would put a 92Y in a 19D slot. So I came back in '09 as a 92Y, worked myself over to a RSTA unit and after 3 long years of paperwork moving at national guard speed, I finally got my Stetson. And I'm happy.
I was even more happy that my unit was going to deploy this year in fact! I was finally going to be a real scout. And when our deployment papers came down the wire, the budget opened up like Pamela Andersons shirt on Baywatch.
Now, I have good relations with my leadership and they know I can do the work. I was 3 times scheduled for Pathfinder actually. It was pulled last June and last November. In Nov, they quickly put me in Javelin since it cost a lot less. And I got WLC bc I told them I needed training - I already had the point from time in service and college to be promoted. So I went to WLC. In March, they sent 12 of us to Air Assault. I would have gone 35M instead but it was a last minute deal and they couldn't finish paperwork in time. So after they had given my seat at AA away, I actually got it back when 35M fell through. To substitute for the 35M loss, we sent 4 guys to COIST. Hardly an adequate trade off, but whatever.
I got scheduled and reserved for Pathfinder in June and had COIST in May. They asked me if I wanted RSLC instead of those 2, the times conflicted. I chose Pathfinder not bc of the darn badge, but bc it is much harder to get.
Now our deployment was cancelled for October. We're all sitting here hummed out, and I hate that I have no deployment. So I want to go SF on order to do something.
So my unit knows me, trusts that I can pass the courses with ease, and has lined me up for them. But we all know how easily those hopes can be dashed bc some commander decides its more important to uit money into a new weight room rather than training. However, I know that ARC is a priority, that is the only course I am most likely to attend now that budget cuts are happening. That's why I scheduled RSLC for the very beginning of the Fiscal Year, to try and hold on to it. I'd say odds for RSLC is pretty slim, but for ARC it is pretty good. And for ALC it is 50/50. We'll see.
I git the RSLC slot bc I just got up'ped to e5 and moved to another unit, a rival unit. So I asked my training NCO to put me in, and just inspire of my new unit, he did (and he was sure not to put me into a unit slot which would have stayed with the unit when I left, but my slit is at brigade bc we git cinnections, so that strengthens my position, and gives me more hope that I'll actually attend). In the end though, its a win for everyone.
As for you. I came here bc you got it backwards. I'm not going to formally make any declarations to the SF recruiters until I get my ducks in a row. This IS the leg work. I'll go see a recruiter when I'm good and damn ready and that's none of your business.
But I can see you've been hurt before. You're a tender child and that's why you cry and complain. Unfortunately, I lack empathy. I'm an old man, too old to give a shi* about your feelings. So, if I get to go to the Q, I hope you're there. I hope you're my medic. I'll let you be the first one to smoke me (I can see that you can't handle anything, so I won't be intimidated.)
"Fear not those things which can harm the body, rather, fear that which causes you to lose your soul." - Jesus Christ
S enjoy the worms, enjoy them one at a time. Enjoy the burn.
I won't avail myself to answer any more of your pedantic questions though. Better to get your own issues in order before you go trying to pick on others for having more success. It didnt take 14 months, it took 13. You can check that on ATRRS. So eat your worms. Eat them one at a time. It's the only comfort you will find.
I rest better knowing that you were at Pathfinder, WLC, COIST, YMCA... whatever it was you were doing while the rest of us were in places like Ramadi, Basrah, Mosul, Tikrit, Helmand, Kandahar, and the Korengal. I'm sure that gives you the right to barge into our little corner of the Internet and act the fool. x SF had no right to question your background, and Freefalling was probably just being mean when he banned you. I mean, after all, with your extensive SOF credentials, we should have accepted you into our ranks without question, right? 
