The list has grown a lot recently and so most people on it don't know me, but I think I should let those who do know that I'm leaving. I enlisted in the Army National Guard a few months ago and I'm going to Basic on the 28th, which is just a bit less than two weeks from today. My MOS (job) is 11B (Stupid, Dirty Infantry Grunt) but I enlisted on the 18X (Special Forces Candidate) track. So after I finish infantry and "jumping out of a perfectly good airplane" school I'm going to have the opportunity to spend two months trudging all over Georgia's swamps, about 20 miles a day, carrying over 80 pounds, using a map and compass to navigate and getting very little sleep. I am, of course, thrilled that the Army is allowing me this opportunity.
If I get selected (there's about a 20% selection rate currently) I will then go on to over two years of additional training to be an 18D (SF Medic) and will receive my green beret at graduation. If I don't get selected... well, as my recruiter said, "It's complicated." While I'm going through training I am going to be writing letters home. Some of them will be published on my blog, which you can find at http://sf-candidate.livejournal.com/. Currently there's nothing there but a placeholder which I am going to fill in with some information about the Green Berets. You guys have a wonderful community here. Thank you Wade and Victor, and everyone else who has participated and contributed, for making the UPHPU group what it is. -- What is the largest power of two that has three zeros at the end of its base 7 representation? (before the radix point, aka "decimal point") _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
