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What secrets lurk in the filecards?
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03-09-2011, 12:46 PM
oliverbox
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This week I finally rented and watched the library's copy of "The Green Zone". I started to think about Flint's prior Special Forces role before becoming an XO on an A-Team. Looking at the Tiger Force Filecard of Flint, His 2nd MOS is Demolitions. So could it be possible during his enlisted time in Special Forces he was an Engineer Sergeant (18C)?
I watched that in the theatre... It's been since Platoon/Casulaties of War since I've seen an Anti-War War movie.
18C is a real possibility and I hadn't really thought of that before. I read Dick Couch's book "Chosen Soldier" which details Special Forces Training - awesome book - and the 18C training sounded a lot cooler than 18B. 18B was the "easiest" course, the obviously the 18B spent all their time learning about weapons and learning to shoot expert on everything. 18C were not only blowing stuff up, but building stuff and fixing stuff - I bet Mr. T on the A-Team was an 18C - sort of like a Combat Engineer on steriods.
From what I understand from the book, once Flint went Warrant Officer, he would have had to requalify as an 18A - it's the second longest 18 series qualification course, the longest being 18D (SF medic). SF Warrants obvously are XO's on A-team, and often lead teams... so they're considered "command Officers" more than just "Technical Experts".
I once had an SF Major tell me that SF Warrant Officer was the best job in the Army - you get to spend your entire career with the A-Teams.
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