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(56,582 posts) Mon Jun 10, 2013, 10:04 AM Jun 2013

When did they stop requiring you make E-4 before your Q course? [View all]

I've clearly been out of the military too long, but in my day you had to be a corporal and generally have finished some advanced training (ranger, recon for us jarheads, etc.) to go through selection. When (and, for God's sake, why) did that change? Any more recent vets than me know?

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When did they stop requiring you make E-4 before your Q course? [View all] Recursion Jun 2013 OP

Is this relevant? OKNancy Jun 2013 #1

It's just weird. A decade ago you had to be finishing up your first tour to go to special operations Recursion Jun 2013 #3

No idea, premium Jun 2013 #2

I got out in 2005 and this is news to me Recursion Jun 2013 #4

They added an additional entry path a few years ago Abnredleg Jun 2013 #5

It goes back to 2002, apparently. And he did it *into the Reserves* Recursion Jun 2013 #6

In my day, in the 80s, historylovr Jun 2013 #7

It's still a corporal Recursion Jun 2013 #8

you can do it at E-3 when I was in WooWooWoo Jun 2013 #9

Apparently now you can enlist directly into it, and with a Reserve contract Recursion Jun 2013 #10