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18XE1-E3

Special Forces Candidate Training Accession Reporting Code

E-1 to E-3 (Junior Enlisted) · Army

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

18X is a pipeline entry ticket, not a MOS. BCT, OSUT, and Airborne School are the opening gates — all three must be completed before you ever set foot at Camp Mackall. The leading edge of attrition in this pipeline is not SFAS itself: it is the soldiers who arrive broken, under-prepared, or carrying a record that bars them from continuing. Build the body before you ship, protect the record from day one, and do not let Airborne school feel like the hard part — it is the warmup.

The Honest MOS Read
You signed an 18X contract, which means a recruiter or an SF recruiting team convinced you — and the Army agreed — that you had the baseline profile to enter the Special Forces pipeline as a civilian with no prior service. That is not a guarantee of a Green Beret. It is a guarantee of an opportunity to attempt one of the most demanding selection and training pipelines the Army runs. The pipeline starts at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. You complete Basic Combat Training alongside soldiers going to every other MOS. At BCT nobody knows who is 18X and who is not — you are in the same formations, the same ranges, the same PT sessions. What separates you is what you are doing in the free time: rucking when others are sleeping, working land navigation when others are watching TV, and studying the SFAS prep materials the recruiter gave you. BCT is not the test; it is the conditioning window. From Fort Jackson you move to OSUT — One Station Unit Training — which consolidates Infantry training and is currently run at Fort Moore, Columbus, Georgia. OSUT runs roughly two months longer than standard AIT and covers the full infantry skill set: battle drills, weapons employment, patrolling, night operations, and field craft. You are being built into an infantry-baseline soldier because the SF pipeline requires an infantry-competent body regardless of which permanent MOS you ultimately earn. The 18D who cannot navigate at night, the 18E who cannot execute a react-to-contact drill, the 18C who cannot clear a room — none of them belong on a 12-man ODA. OSUT fixes that before SFAS. Airborne School follows. Three weeks at Fort Moore (the Airborne School relocated from Fort Benning, now Fort Moore, in the same facility — Lawson Army Airfield, the Airborne jump facility adjacent to the school). Week one is Ground Week — parachute landing falls, door exits, tower work, the physical baseline. Week two is Tower Week — 34-foot towers, 250-foot towers, suspended harness work. Week three is Jump Week — five qualifying jumps, including at least one with equipment. Airborne is the minimum parachute qualification for SF pipeline entry; the Combat Diver Qualification Course (CDQC) and Military Free Fall (MFF) course come later for those who earn a slot. The washout rate at Airborne school is real but not extreme compared to what follows — most candidates who arrive physically capable graduate. The failure modes are ankle injuries (parachute landing falls gone wrong), fear-of-height freezes at the door (rare but it happens), and the administrative failures that accumulate when a soldier is not paying attention to uniform standards and accountability in the formations. After Airborne you report to Fort Liberty, North Carolina — specifically to the JFK Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS), the home of the Special Forces Qualification Course and the SF pipeline. Here you in-process to the 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne), which owns the initial selection and training pipeline. Depending on your class date and SFAS seat availability, you may enter the Special Operations Preparation Course (SOPC) — a weeks-long pre-SFAS conditioning and land-navigation ramp that was designed for exactly this kind of pipeline candidate. SOPC is not SFAS; it is the bridge between Airborne school and the real assessment. Not every 18X candidate enters SOPC; it depends on pipeline throughput and timing. Either way, you are now at the gate. The honest read on this tier: the soldiers who make it through to SFAS and beyond are not the ones who were the best athletes at BCT. They are the ones who built a physical base with patience — rucking hundreds of miles before they ever signed in at Camp Mackall — who documented every injury, kept their record clean, and treated every gate in the pipeline as the thing they came to do rather than an obstacle between them and the Green Beret. The candidates who arrive at SFAS as the 'I'm going SF' personality rather than the 'I've done the work' soldier are visible immediately. The cadre have seen ten thousand of them.
Career Arc
  • 01BCT graduation at Fort Jackson — the administrative gate cleared. Your 18X designation is active and the pipeline is open.
  • 02OSUT completion at Fort Moore — Infantry baseline in hand. You are now an infantryman by training regardless of which 18-series MOS you ultimately earn.
  • 03Airborne School graduate at Fort Moore — three jumps completed by week three, wings pinned, Airborne qualification in your record. The next gate is SFAS.
  • 04In-process at SWCS / Fort Liberty — the 1st Special Warfare Training Group receives you, SOPC is assigned or bypassed depending on pipeline timing, and the SFAS class date is set.
  • 05SFAS report date at Camp Mackall — the assessment begins. Everything before this was preparation; this is the test.
  • 06Post-SFAS: either selected and continuing into SFQC, or non-selected and returned to the Army as an Infantry soldier per the terms of the 18X contract.
Common Screwups
  • ×Arriving at any gate with an undisclosed injury. The medical drop during SFAS — for a stress fracture the candidate hid through three months of BCT/OSUT because he feared the pipeline delay — is the most common preventable pipeline failure. Document everything at sick call, even if it seems minor.
  • ×Accumulating an Article 15, an APFT/ACFT failure, or an overweight period during BCT or OSUT. A single administrative action can trigger a pipeline-eligibility review; at SWCS the cadre will read your record line by line before SFAS.
  • ×Posting 18X content — 'I'm going SF', unit identifiers, pipeline details — on social media. The OPSEC discipline that SF demands begins before the school, not after. The cadre notice what your friends tag you in.
  • ×Burning the Airborne school window by treating it as a vacation between OSUT and SFAS. The three weeks at Airborne are where conditioning momentum either builds or breaks; the candidate who coasts through loses weeks of ramp time.
  • ×Failing to set up a VA medical record from the first documented injury. The injuries you take in the pipeline follow you for life; the claim you cannot document costs you money and quality of life twenty years from now.

A Day in the Life

  • 0445Wake and pre-formation prep — uniform serviceable, kit staged, nothing left to chance before 0500 formation.
  • 0500PT formation — BCT/OSUT physical readiness training run by cadre. Ranges from 3-5 mile runs to interval training to unit muscle-failure circuits. The 18X candidate uses this as the floor, not the ceiling.
  • 0600Chow formation — eat everything, hydrate. OSUT is a caloric deficit environment. The candidate who under-eats in BCT/OSUT is the one who cramps on the ruck.
  • 0700Training block — ranges, land navigation, battle drills, weapons qualification, or classroom instruction depending on where in the OSUT cycle you are.
  • 1200Midday chow — short window. Use it.
  • 1300Afternoon training block — continuation of morning task or second subject. Field problems run all day and into the night on training-cycle field weeks.
  • 1700Evening chow and personal hygiene window. The 18X candidate uses the post-chow window to review land navigation materials, study ADP 3-05 or FM 3-18, and manage gear maintenance.
  • 1900Barracks time — during garrison cycles. This is the personal ramp window: extra ruck intervals if the training day was light, pool session if the installation has access, map work, and SFAS prep materials review.
  • 2100Personal hygiene and recovery — feet checked, blisters addressed before they become infections, gear prepped for tomorrow.
  • 2200Lights out or lights-out equivalent. Sleep is training. The candidates who stay up talking about going SF are underperforming the ones who sleep.

Weekly Cadence

The BCT and OSUT training cycle runs on a weekly rhythm set by the cadre. Monday through Friday are structured training days — PT in the morning, training blocks through the day, personal time in the evening. Weekends during garrison phases are personal time with formation accountability at reveille and retreat. During field exercises, the week collapses into a continuous operational tempo with sleep windows instead of work days — this is intentional. OSUT field exercises run progressively longer as the cycle advances. The 18X candidate's personal ramp sits on top of the issued training program. The evening windows — 1700 to 2200 on garrison days — are the preparation hours. Map reading, ruck intervals on post perimeter roads, pool access when available, and reading the doctrinal materials that SFQC will assume you know. On weekends, the 18X candidate who uses the full open post time for extended rucking or land navigation practice over civilian terrain near post is building the base that SFAS will test. The candidates who use the weekend to sleep in and watch videos are making a choice about what SFAS will feel like. The training rhythm shifts significantly for field weeks. Land navigation in unfamiliar terrain at night, extended ruck events, battle drills under stress — these are the BCT/OSUT weeks that have the most direct applicability to the SFAS environment. Pay attention. Take the corrections from the cadre during field exercises; they are describing the mistakes you cannot make at Camp Mackall.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Land navigation day and night to STP 21-1-SMCT individual standard — and above it.
    Buy a compass and a set of 1:25,000 topo maps of terrain near your home station and do it in the dark without a phone. The SFAS Star Course puts you alone in the North Carolina woods at night with a map and a compass and a distance requirement. The candidates who walk off the map plotted their point wrong in daylight; the ones who fail at night never practiced in the dark. OSUT will give you the basics; you must build the speed and accuracy independently.
  2. 02
    Ruck under load — heavy, continuous, on varied terrain — without breaking down.
    Rucking is a skill that is built over months, not weeks. Start with a 35 lb ruck at a 15-minute-per-mile pace on flat ground and progressively add weight and terrain over a 12-16 week cycle. The SFAS ruck events are not advertised with a specific weight or distance — that is by design. The candidate who can move any weight over any distance without internal monologue about quitting is the one who built the base honestly. Log every ruck. Show up to SOPC and SFAS with 200+ ruck miles already in the bank.
  3. 03
    Physical readiness across the ACFT at 540+ — not just the 480 minimum.
    FM 7-22 has the programming framework. The ACFT 540+ candidates at SFAS are visible in a formation — not because their score is posted, but because the work that produces that score shows in how they carry a load and recover between events. Address weak events early: the maximum deadlift row and the sprint-drag-carry are the events most BCT-era soldiers are undertrained for. Build a plan that targets your bottom two events while maintaining the top four.
  4. 04
    Swim — fully clothed, fully kitted, without panic.
    The 18X pipeline includes water events at SOPC and SFAS, and the Combat Diver Qualification Course (CDQC) at Key West is a school many SF soldiers attend later in their career. If you are not a confident swimmer, fix it before you ship. Log pool sessions weekly. Practice fully-clothed water entries — boots on, uniform on — in a controlled environment. The candidate who freezes at a water obstacle because he has never been in deep water with his kit on is a predictable failure mode.
  5. 05
    Battle drill execution from ATP 3-21.8 — react to contact, break contact, enter and clear a room.
    OSUT teaches them. The 18X candidate who treats OSUT as the minimum and walks through drills until they become automatic is the one who executes them under SFAS stress without thought. Drill Sergeant corrections during OSUT are a gift — absorb them. The battle drills you execute cleanly at OSUT are the ones you will execute on an ODA three years later, just with a different team and a different terrain.
  6. 06
    Record hygiene — protect the administrative foundation of pipeline eligibility.
    One Article 15 during BCT can trigger a pipeline-eligibility review. One ACFT failure under the line can pause your routing. One undisclosed medical event can end your SFAS run. The 18X contract is contingent on clean administrative records at every gate; treat your record with the same discipline you treat your physical readiness. Log every injury at sick call the day it happens — not because you are injured, but because the documentation protects you for the next twenty years.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • STP 21-1-SMCT — Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks, Warrior Skills Level 1.
    The 40 Warrior Skills tasks are the BCT/OSUT foundation and the base line for every SFAS lane. Task 071-329-1019 (land navigation) is the one you will be tested on cold — practice it to where the steps are automatic, not remembered.
  • ATP 3-21.8 — Infantry Platoon and Squad.
    Chapters 4 and 5 (offense and defense) contain the battle drills OSUT is built around. Read chapter 4 before the first field exercise and it will make every Drill Sergeant correction land with context.
  • TC 3-22.9 — Rifle and Carbine.
    The M4 qualification standard at OSUT. Know the zeroing procedure, the immediate and remedial action sequences, and the qualification tables cold before the range. Candidates who arrive at SFAS having shot Expert at OSUT start the pipeline with one less deficit.
  • ADP 3-05 — Special Operations.
    Read it once before BCT and once more before SFAS. It is fifteen pages. It describes the world you are trying to enter — the seven core special operations activities, the relationship between special and conventional forces, the doctrinal foundation SFQC Phase 1 assumes you understand.
  • FM 3-18 — Special Forces Operations.
    The operational-level SF mission-set reference. Read the introductory chapters to understand what FID, UW, DA, SR, CT, and PSYOP mean in doctrinal terms. Phase 1 of SFQC will build on this; arriving with the vocabulary in place is the difference between a student who follows and a student who contributes.
  • FM 7-22 — Holistic Health and Fitness.
    The ACFT programming framework. Chapter 7 (planning physical training) and the event-specific guidance are the tools for building a periodized program that peaks at the SFAS window. Program to the 540+ standard, not the passing minimum.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • OSUT graduate and Airborne School graduate — both in hand before SFAS.
    These are sequential prerequisites — you cannot substitute or waive them. If an injury at OSUT delays you, the pipeline can hold your SFAS class date while you heal. Communicate with your chain of command at SWCS, document the injury, and return on schedule. Men who hide injuries to avoid pipeline delay end up non-selectable at SFAS for the thing they hid.
  • ACFT 540+ at OSUT graduation.
    Program the ACFT using FM 7-22 from BCT day one. The 540 standard requires above-average performance across all six events — identify your two weakest events in the first week and address them before they become the events that hold you below 540. The scoring tables are public; test yourself monthly.
  • 12-mile foot march under 3 hours with 35 lb fighting load.
    The Air Assault and EIB standard. Build to it progressively over the OSUT cycle — start at 4-mile rucks at a comfortable pace and add two miles per week. The candidates who can complete a 12-mile ruck in 2:45 or less at OSUT graduation have the physical base SOPC will continue to build.
  • Clean record — no Article 15, no flag, no body-composition failure.
    This is not a hard standard to meet if you pay attention. Most 18X administrative failures at BCT/OSUT are social failures — formation misconduct, barracks policy violations, unauthorized absences. The candidate who treats OSUT like a job and keeps his head down has a clean record by default.
  • GT score 110+ and TS/SCI-eligible background already submitted.
    The GT score was set at enlistment — if it was below 110, the recruiter should not have contracted you for 18X. The TS/SCI background investigation is initiated after contract signing. Keep your credit, legal history, and foreign contacts clean and honest on the SF-86; a single omission on the investigation can disqualify an otherwise strong candidate.

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Over-training in the final two weeks before a gate.
    Stress fractures from accumulated weekly mileage with no taper period are the most common medical drop at SFAS. The candidate who ran 40 miles per week for 16 weeks and then ran 40 miles in the final week before SFAS shows up with a left tibia that the SFAS medics can feel through the bone. Taper 10-14 days out — protect the investment you already made.
  • Posting pipeline progress or 18X identity on social media.
    OPSEC violations before the school are a tell about OPSEC discipline after the school. The cadre have seen candidates dropped from SFQC for social media posts during the pipeline. The habit starts now or it does not start.
  • Neglecting land navigation practice in favor of physical training.
    The most common SFAS non-select is not a fitness failure — it is a land navigation failure. The candidate who can ruck 15 miles and cannot find his control points walks off the Star Course. Physical fitness gets you to the controls; land navigation finds them.
  • Treating Airborne school injuries as minor and failing to document them.
    Parachute landing fall injuries — ankle sprains, knee impacts, shoulder landings — accumulate across five jump week jumps. The candidate who documents nothing, treats with ibuprofen, and moves to SFAS is the one who has a stress fracture through a previously-sprained ankle on Day 4 of SFAS. Document every landing-related injury at the jump medic station on the drop zone.
  • Letting 'I'm 18X going SF' become the personality rather than the project.
    The candidates who talk about going SF are visible at BCT, visible at OSUT, and visible at SFAS — and none of that visibility helps. The cadre at Camp Mackall assess the soldier who performs, not the one who announces. The barracks identity becomes the public record; the SFAS performance becomes the actual record.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • Accept the SOPC slot or advocate to go straight to SFAS if offered a choice.
    SOPC (Special Operations Preparation Course) was designed for exactly the 18X population — civilians who have completed BCT/OSUT/Airborne and need a structured ramp before SFAS. If you are offered a SOPC slot, take it. The conditioning, land navigation focus, and SFAS-specific preparation are purpose-built for the transition from infantry-trained private to SFAS candidate. Soldiers who skip SOPC and go straight to SFAS with an insufficient land-nav base are the ones the cadre watch leave the course in week one.
  • Request a medical hold versus hiding an injury.
    The pressure to stay in the pipeline is real and the fear of losing the SFAS class date is real. Both are short-term concerns that produce long-term damage. A medical hold for a verifiable injury — documented, treated, and cleared by the SWCS medical staff — does not end an 18X pipeline. A hidden injury that becomes a dropped candidate during SFAS (or worse, a discharge for misrepresentation) does. Disclose the injury, accept the hold, return when cleared. The pipeline will have another seat.
  • Which permanent MOS track to pursue when given a preference opportunity.
    Not all 18X candidates get preference input on the permanent MOS assignment — the Army assigns based on pipeline needs and candidate aptitude. When candidates do get input, the decision should be based on honest self-assessment: 18D (Medical) requires the longest pipeline (SOCM is roughly 36 weeks, followed by SFMS Phase 4); 18B (Weapons) is the most common track; 18E (Communications) requires a technical aptitude baseline the pipeline will test; 18C (Engineer) requires similar technical capability; 18F (Intelligence) requires the strongest academic record and analytical aptitude. Talk to someone who has completed the track you are considering — the recruiter's version is not the same as the reality.
  • Non-select from SFAS — continue Army service or separate.
    The 18X contract specifies the terms of a non-select: most 18X soldiers who do not pass SFAS are reclassified as 11X (Infantry) and assigned to a regular infantry unit. This is not a consolation prize — it is an infantry career, and a good one if you choose to build it that way. Many soldiers who non-select from SFAS reapply in the in-service pipeline after two years in a line unit. Others discover that infantry is where they belong. The decision point is real: do you re-enter the SF pipeline when eligible, reclass to a different MOS, or build a career as an infantryman? Neither direction is wrong. The man who knows why he wants the tab, not just that he wants it, makes the right call for himself.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • BCT at Fort Jackson
    Fort Jackson is the Army's largest and primary BCT installation. It is not SOF-flavored and it does not treat 18X candidates differently from any other incoming soldier. The 18X candidate who expects special treatment or early differentiation at Jackson is surprised. There are other 18X contracts in the cycle; the shared experience is anonymizing by design.
  • OSUT at Fort Moore
    Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning, renamed 2023) hosts both the Maneuver Center of Excellence (MCoE) and Airborne School. OSUT at Moore is the infantry training pipeline and produces the baseline for all 18X candidates regardless of eventual MOS. The Drill Sergeants at OSUT are combat veterans; the training is serious. The 18X candidate who does OSUT well is building the foundation that every SFQC phase assumes is there.
  • Airborne School at Fort Moore
    Three weeks, five qualifying jumps, and wings on your chest. The training is systematic and the cadre are experienced. The failure modes are ankle injuries from poorly-executed PLFs and door-freeze on the first real jump — both of which are preventable with attention in Ground Week. The 18X candidate who arrives at Airborne in good physical shape and with 10+ hours of pool work in the bank is not the candidate the Airborne cadre worry about.
  • SOPC (Special Operations Preparation Course) at Fort Liberty
    SOPC is the formal ramp between Airborne graduation and SFAS for many 18X candidates. It is physically demanding and land-navigation intensive. The cadre are SWCS NCOs and they are watching candidates for SFAS readiness even before the assessment begins. SOPC non-selects — candidates the SOPC cadre determine are not ready — may be given additional preparation time or redirected. This is not SFAS; it is the filter before SFAS.
  • SFAS at Camp Mackall
    Camp Mackall is a sub-installation outside Fort Liberty in the Carolina sandhills. The terrain is flat-to-rolling pine forest — not the dramatic mountain terrain people imagine. The SFAS events are not publicly detailed for good reason; the published preparation guidance from SWCS is the only accurate description. The candidates who research 'what SFAS is really like' on YouTube are watching entertainment. The candidates who read TC 18-01, ADP 3-05, and FM 3-18 and then train to the SWCS published physical standard are preparing for the actual assessment.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The outstanding 18X candidate at the BCT/OSUT/Airborne tier is the soldier who does not look like he is trying to be different from the rest of the formation — he just is, in the way that is visible only in the numbers and the results. His ACFT score is not the minimum; it is 30 points above it. His 12-mile ruck time at OSUT graduation is not 2:58; it is 2:35. His M4 qualification at OSUT is not Marksman; it is Expert. His record has no flags, no counselings for misconduct, no medical profile that was not documented properly from day one. What he is not is the loudest voice in the barracks about going SF. He is the soldier who finishes the run, does extra pull-ups in the housing area, studies his topo map when everyone else is on their phone, and is first to formation every morning. The Drill Sergeants notice him because he makes their job easier — not because he is drawing attention to himself. By Airborne graduation he is the candidate SWCS cadre look at in the in-process formation and note quietly as someone to watch — not because he announced anything, but because the record says he has done everything right so far. That is the only version of standing out that matters before Camp Mackall.

Preview — The Next Rank

The E4 tier is SFAS and SFQC. If you make it there from where you are standing now, everything changes — you are no longer a PFC or a SPC in a training pipeline. You are a candidate number at Camp Mackall, and the cadre are deciding your future in three-week increments. The E4 tier is not a guarantee that follows from doing E1-E3 well. The pipeline is a separate assessment. Men who were exceptional at BCT non-select at SFAS. Men who were adequate at BCT select because they had the right combination of durability, judgment, and team mentality. The physical base you are building now is necessary but not sufficient. The land navigation, the ruck capacity, and the record hygiene are the entry ticket. What SFAS actually tests — judgment under fatigue, team contribution when you are empty, the ability to move and think when everything hurts — is built over time or it is not there.
FAQ

18X E1-E3 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E1-E3 18X (Special Forces Candidate Training Accession Reporting Code) actually do?
18X soldiers do not enter a regular unit — they enter a pipeline.
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E1-E3 18X?
18X is a pipeline entry ticket, not a MOS.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E1-E3 18X?
Time-blocked day at the E1-E3 18X rank tier: 0445 Wake and pre-formation prep — uniform serviceable, kit staged, nothing left to chance before 0500 formation, 0500 PT formation — BCT/OSUT physical readiness training run by cadre. Ranges from 3-5 mile runs to interval training to unit muscle-failure circuits. The 18X candidate uses this as the floor, not the ceiling, 0600 Chow formation — eat everything, hydrate. OSUT is a caloric deficit environment. The candidate who under-eats in BCT/OSUT is the one who cramps on the ruck, 0700 Training block — ranges, land navigation, battle drills,…
Q04What mistakes get E1-E3 18X soldiers fired or relieved?
Arriving at any gate with an undisclosed injury. The medical drop during SFAS — for a stress fracture the candidate hid through three months of BCT/OSUT because he feared the pipeline delay — is the most common preventable pipeline failure. Document everything at sick call, even if it seems minor; Accumulating an Article 15, an APFT/ACFT failure, or an overweight period during BCT or OSUT. A single administrative action can trigger a pipeline-eligibility review;…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E1-E3 18X rank tier?
Accept the SOPC slot or advocate to go straight to SFAS if offered a choice — SOPC (Special Operations Preparation Course) was designed for exactly the 18X population — civilians who have completed BCT/OSUT/Airborne and need a structured ramp before SFAS. If you are offered a SOPC slot, take it. The conditioning, land navigation focus, and SFAS-specific preparation are purpose-built for the transition from infantry-trained private to SFAS candidate. Soldiers who skip SOPC and go straight to SFAS with an insufficient land-nav base are the ones the cadre watch leave the course in week one;…
Q06What's next after E1-E3 for a 18X (Special Forces Candidate Training Accession Reporting Code) in the Army?
The E4 tier is SFAS and SFQC.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E1-E3 18X need to know cold?
STP 21-1-SMCT — Soldier's Manual of Common Tasks, Warrior Skills Level 1 (land nav, first aid, communications — the BCT/OSUT baseline).; ATP 3-21.8 — Infantry Platoon and Squad (chapters 4 and 5 — the battle drills OSUT is built around).; TC 3-22.9 — Rifle and Carbine (the weapons qualification standard you will be held to at OSUT and beyond).

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