It's official. SOT-A guys now have an "Assessement and Validation" program. I'm going to be vague for now but it goes like this:
Goodfellow AFB (Screening of newly quald 35ps wishing to be SOT-A)
Indoc
School
SERE-C
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SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
It's official. SOT-A guys now have an "Assessement and Validation" program. I'm going to be vague for now but it goes like this:
Goodfellow AFB (Screening of newly quald 35ps wishing to be SOT-A)
Indoc
School
SERE-C
Last edited by Milktruckcopilot; 11-21-2012 at 08:39 PM.
"He was a SOT-A Soldier doing exactly what SOT-A's do," his commander said, "fighting alongside his special forces teammates in the most difficult, dangerous places while carrying heavy loads of technical gear that saves lives of our forces and takes the lives of our enemies."
1SFG(A) Commander speaking about Sgt Andrew "A.J." Creighton
"Call me Ops"
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
Just curious, what exactly does a SOT-A do?
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B Company, 1/508 Inf (Abn) and 3/505 PIR
Member of the original 505th PIR Gavin Squad - 1986
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Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
Originally Posted by Ops NCO
He could tell you...BUTTTT......
"`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat:`we're all mad here.'"- Lewis Carroll
ΜΩΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
Paratrooper
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
Listen with their ears..........
Paratrooper
Paratrooper
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
I always wondered about that one myself.
Actually, they're kinda like the Mini-Me's of the CEWI world to provide support for SF units.
And so it goes...
Purple
"Don't let yourself get treed by a Chihuahua."
"SF doesn't do harassment. No encouragement; no discouragement. You cannot be in SF if you do not set your own standards. Nobody sets it for you. They just watch what you do. If you rest when you should be working, if you drink when you should be humping, if you let your buddy carry a load too heavy for him - you're gone. No questions, just you're gone. They don't need you."
Paratrooper
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"SOT-As, although extremely valuable, are almost always grossly misappropriated by incompetent commanders. They are taken from their assigned Special Forces Battalions, who specifically request them for support, and given to whomever the CJSOTF commander decides they need to go to. Unfortunately, the aforementioned commanders fail to realize that those SOT-A's are assigned to specific units for a reason. Past actions have shown that deployments of specific SOT-A teams have been hampered due to this inevitable and planned misuse of SOT-As and Special Forces ODAs are deployed without the support that will help them stay alive and find the enemy."
Take that incompetent commander!
"Follow Me! Let's Go! All the Way! Airborne!!"
MOΛΩN ΛABE!
82d AG Co., '82-'83
B Co., 1(A)/325th Inf Rgt, '83-'85
Paratrooper
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
I always wondered about that one myself.
Actually, they're kinda like the Mini-Me's of the CEWI world to provide support for SF units.
And so it goes...
Purple
From the SODS, to the CEWIS..now to us.
We just wait till you are out in the boonies to go out their ourselves...Somebody's gotta be the rabbit.
"He was a SOT-A Soldier doing exactly what SOT-A's do," his commander said, "fighting alongside his special forces teammates in the most difficult, dangerous places while carrying heavy loads of technical gear that saves lives of our forces and takes the lives of our enemies."
1SFG(A) Commander speaking about Sgt Andrew "A.J." Creighton
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
Since I have no idea what anything posted here means ---Is there by chance a FOG,short time Airborne site around ?
Paratrooper
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
This is a fantastic development for the SOT-A community as it will increase the overall quality of the teams, increase the baseline knowledge of the average SOT-A team member (due to mandatory training that in the past has been optional) and giving SOT-As the leverage they need for SDAP.
Paratrooper
Re: SOT-A Pipeline Approved By USASFC
Very true statement. I would further argue that it is a failure on the part of the SOT-A team leaders and the Group SIGINT Warrant to properly educate their commanders on employment of tactical SIGINT assets that contributes to this problem. Too often SOT-As are an afterthought, and/or thought of as a force protection asset. Force protection is not a SOT-A mission, it is a byproduct of the SOT-A mission.
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