To his great dismay and despite assurances to him by his recruiter, the COHORT structure prevented recruits from volunteering for Special Forces, Ranger School, or even Airborne School, for at least three years. “If the recruiter had told Tim the truth about the program he was headed for,” Brandon Stickney wrote, “McVeigh probably wouldn’t have enlisted.” This was only one of such errors and misrepresentations the Buffalo Army recruiter made in McVeigh’s case.1
