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On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:36:16 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:39:48 -0400, John H
wrote:

Then again, many who are married might volunteer. :-)

All Special Forces dudes are volunteers!

These days they are all volunteers but back in the day, you were
drafted into the Army and then you volunteered for special forces, if
they would take you.

My buddy joined the Marines but he still had to bust his ass to be
accepted into the Recon program. The other Marines I knew were just
regular grunts.

Special Forces volunteer more than once!

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On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:53:20 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:36:16 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:39:48 -0400, John H
wrote:

Then again, many who are married might volunteer. :-)

All Special Forces dudes are volunteers!

These days they are all volunteers but back in the day, you were
drafted into the Army and then you volunteered for special forces, if
they would take you.

My buddy joined the Marines but he still had to bust his ass to be
accepted into the Recon program. The other Marines I knew were just
regular grunts.

Special Forces volunteer more than once!

Yup, In special ops training you really volunteer every day because if
you have had enough, they send you back to a regular unit, with a
little stink on you. At least that is the way it is in Marine Recon.
(SEALs too).
The Green Baret I knew was one of those volunteer all the way guys
too. He signed up with that in mind, very early in the program.
He never really talked about it that much other than to say the
training was intense. (more than just running, jumping out of planes,
swimming and learning how to kill people).
In Recon, that is pretty much what it was. The Recon guys said they
were not nation building, they are killing people and blowing **** up.
My Recon buddy was in the grass just about every day of his tour doing
things he never wanted to talk about. He had PTSD before they admitted
it was a thing and I don't think the VA did much for him. Seven years
in the Maryland penal system did not help much either.

John H[_2_]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:51:17 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:53:20 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:36:16 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 08:39:48 -0400, John H
wrote:

Then again, many who are married might volunteer. :-)

All Special Forces dudes are volunteers!

These days they are all volunteers but back in the day, you were
drafted into the Army and then you volunteered for special forces, if
they would take you.

My buddy joined the Marines but he still had to bust his ass to be
accepted into the Recon program. The other Marines I knew were just
regular grunts.

Special Forces volunteer more than once!

Yup, In special ops training you really volunteer every day because if
you have had enough, they send you back to a regular unit, with a
little stink on you. At least that is the way it is in Marine Recon.
(SEALs too).
The Green Baret I knew was one of those volunteer all the way guys
too. He signed up with that in mind, very early in the program.
He never really talked about it that much other than to say the
training was intense. (more than just running, jumping out of planes,
swimming and learning how to kill people).
In Recon, that is pretty much what it was. The Recon guys said they
were not nation building, they are killing people and blowing **** up.
My Recon buddy was in the grass just about every day of his tour doing
things he never wanted to talk about. He had PTSD before they admitted
it was a thing and I don't think the VA did much for him. Seven years
in the Maryland penal system did not help much either.

I knew only one SF guy, my brother. He spent three tours in Vietnam, then the policy came out
reducing the maximum number of tours to two. He was then reassigned to Okinawa, from where he would
go temporary duty (TDY) to Vietnam for 90 days, back for 14, then back for 90. Did that twice.

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