Sounds like a lot of fast-and-loose parsing of words.
Seems Snowden was in the Army, and seems he broke his legs in a training accident at Ft Benning. Was he just training up to drop his selection packet? He may not be in the Q Course, but if was applying or talking to an SF recruiter, there’s probably a record of that. When you apply to be 18 series, there’s plenty of training you do prior to Selection. Now, SF may not take in 18 X-Rays directly from TRADOC with a GED, but I can’t imagine that they’d not take an applicant from another MOS, provided he had the right GT score and the right physical profile.
These days, the Army wants you to have a GED + 15 hours of college credit to be considered equal to a regular HS Graduate. If he was able to get in the Army at all, for any MOS, he probably met that criteria.
Do we know what Snowden’s MOS actually was? Clearly he was an 18 or 35 series if he was processed for TS (or TS/SCI). There’s little chance he qualified academically for 35 series (intelligence) and not 18 (SF).
At any rate, I don’t recall seeing anywhere that this guy claimed to be SOF, only that he broke his legs in a training accident and that put an end to his SOF career aspirations. So what? I’m sure a two minute discussion with the guy could make clear precisely what he was talking about, and either way it would have zero impact on the big picture.
Still, it’s awesome that the media still has the ability to investigate people down to the atomic level when properly motivated. If only we could harness this investigatory zeal towards vetting the background of the President of these United States, rather than microanalyzing a minor resume point of some low level flunkie who added valuable information about the encroaching surveillance state to the public discourse.
Haven’t seen you around in a awhile. Nice to see you.
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Thanks for that info.