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SF welcomes 121 new Green Berets
Staff and wire reports
Posted : Thursday Aug 14, 2008 10:45:15 EDT
Posted : Thursday Aug 14, 2008 10:45:15 EDT
Green Berets graduated and two former Special Forces soldiers were honored on Thursday by the Special Forces community.
The 121 Green Berets graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, N.C., and will join five active-duty and two National Guard Special Forces groups.
The graduates include 13 officers and 108 enlisted soldiers.
The officers graduated as detachment officers, military occupational specialty 18A, while 33 soldiers graduated as weapons sergeants (18B), 25 as engineer sergeants (18C), 23 as medical sergeants (18D), and 27 as communications sergeants (18E).
During the ceremony, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Joseph L. Dennison and retired Master Sgt. Joe Alderman will both become “Distinguished Members of the Regiment.” Dennison was the first senior sergeant for the Special Forces Command and Alderman served for seven years in Special Forces units in Vietnam.
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