Easiest way I know of to work with Spec-ops weapons is to enlist as a 92Y (Unit supply specialist - ARMY) and be 110% certain you'll be working with a special ops unit. A large part of the responsibility (and soon, about the only thing a 92Y will do) is arms room, including maintenance and upgrading of the weapons contained within. I speak from experience, I'm being made obsolete with what is called CIF-ism. All of the MOLLE equipment my soldiers are recieving now is being sent from a CIF facility somewhere in the US, and all I do as the Yankee in my unit is facilitate paperwork to send to the CIF before they ship it. However, my section chief recently informed me we're supposed to be getting a pile of RIS systems to update our older M4s with (we're a reserve Aviation Unit, I still have 40 M16A2s in my arms room, 12 of which are Colts. 3 of those are red-x'ed, the sear springs are so fatigued they're inop. As soon as the supply system unscrews itself and sends me my replacements, I can get them fixed), and me being as technically capable with firearms as I am, he thought I'd be a shoo-in to do the work. You'll have to pick up a secondary MOS as armorer, but that's only a 1 and a half week course. Since it's such a short course, they won't allow you to enlist as JUST an armorer. 92Y school included a week and a half of Standard US weapons maintenance, so you'll get to work with the most common US small arms. I can field strip anything from a Mk-19 to an M9. the M107 was a trip, and another private nearly killed himself trying to reassemble an M2. fun times <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />.

Sadly, though, the Army is downsizing, and from what I understand from speaking with my recruiter, active duty isnt even accepting new enlistees for anything, door kicker included. There's also no such thing as a "reserve" Special Ops unit. However, if there happens to be an opening, I'd take advantage of it, especially if it drops you in as support personnel for a Special OPs group, because that would open up the door to you to take a shot at becoming Spec-ops yourself. It sounds like, with the fast roping from the balcony, that you're heading in that direction anyways.

Now my question to you, are you interested in working with the firearms technically, or do you just want to pull triggers? If you just want to pull triggers, go in on a Ranger contract, and work your way up from there. And be warned, even IF you do get into a spec-ops unit, you may not neccessarily get to play with the toys you want to. Even with such a small community of personnel, the newest, most special toys like the SCAR and ACR are only ordered in small quantities, and then they are distributed amongst all branches of the services, and only fielded by certain units. A SEAL team may have access to just about anything they want, and the GPCs to back it up, but don't count on a Ranger Battalion having the same wherewithal to buy whatever they feel like. To pull triggers on any weapon you could possibly want, you'd have to be tip top of the spear, and that is very difficult to achieve.