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05-10-2016, 10:06 PM
LowTech
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^ Well the thing about hand-picking is that they typically come from a small community. Blue Light all came from 5th Group. 6 came from the relatively small SEAL community. Joe seems to come from all over . . . though if you look at the time period it's plausible that they came from MACV-SOG (BL after all had a number of Son Tay raiders, and 6 initially consisted of 'Nam vets, so the timeline isn't that big a stretch . . . it's a shorter timeline than starting a new unit today with guys who rode horses in Afghanistan in '02). Or maybe some of Stalker's first picks were a little too old to join a new unit but had become instructors and slipped some names to Stalker and Hawk. Maybe Grunt was on the same Basic course as Rock n Roll. When Stalker picked Rock, Rock turned to him and said "Hey - I know this guy. He got [pick a light infantry division] instead of Ranger, but man was he hot . . . and frosty - both at the same time!" Stalker pulled his jacket, liked what he saw, and in he came. Or maybe he was out on the same XAFV-project that is where, presumably, Steeler caught someone's eye.
Anyway, why the need to do Ranger training? The guy is highly motivated, cool under pressure, and he can fix weapons and call for artillery - those are characteristics and skills in high demand in any unit.
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