Lost Opportunities with a New SOF Career Course | Small Wars Journal
I am approaching my time to get promoted to CPT soonish (though, in the Guard, it's a wild card) and was researching various Captain's Career Courses and my courses of actions to take. I think I'm still a bit early in the game on this, but I'm at least trying to research my options.
A while back, I talked to a SF recruiter and he told me I'd take CCC before the Q Course. From the information I've gathered from recruiters and official sources, the options for CCC for hopeful SF Officers would be Maneuver CCC or the SOFCCC.
I read that article and was wondering what some of your thoughts were. From what I've read in that article, MCCC offers valuable maneuver experience from experienced Captains, whereas SOFCCC is more new and is more of a giant huddle for all of Army SOF including Civil Affairs and PsyOps. However, the author is arguing that the SOFCCC kind of shorts people that tactical knowledge, whereas MCCC doesn't cover anything SOF related. What do you all consider more valuable? Myself personally, I lack both the tactical knowledge (despite spending 75% of my career in line units, artillery related) and SOF knowledge, so I'm stuck in the middle.
Thanks for reading; I wasn't sure to post this article here or in the Leadership Development forum.
I am approaching my time to get promoted to CPT soonish (though, in the Guard, it's a wild card) and was researching various Captain's Career Courses and my courses of actions to take. I think I'm still a bit early in the game on this, but I'm at least trying to research my options.
A while back, I talked to a SF recruiter and he told me I'd take CCC before the Q Course. From the information I've gathered from recruiters and official sources, the options for CCC for hopeful SF Officers would be Maneuver CCC or the SOFCCC.
I read that article and was wondering what some of your thoughts were. From what I've read in that article, MCCC offers valuable maneuver experience from experienced Captains, whereas SOFCCC is more new and is more of a giant huddle for all of Army SOF including Civil Affairs and PsyOps. However, the author is arguing that the SOFCCC kind of shorts people that tactical knowledge, whereas MCCC doesn't cover anything SOF related. What do you all consider more valuable? Myself personally, I lack both the tactical knowledge (despite spending 75% of my career in line units, artillery related) and SOF knowledge, so I'm stuck in the middle.
Thanks for reading; I wasn't sure to post this article here or in the Leadership Development forum.