I want to become a Green Beret, but considering the route the Army is going now, should I look forward to doing something different?

Of course you should try. Do you really want to be a leg the rest of your career. Good luck.

The title statement isn’t completely accurate I believe. The worst day in SF is way worse than any day in the regular army. In SF, you become extremely close with the other guys in your team/ group, because of stabalitazion within the community. You become family. I would think that a loss hits way harder than in SF than in reg army. Not taking away from losses in RA. Guys can become close there too, but not 10+ years of deployments together. But if we are talking about day-to-day life, SF is way better.

My only regret is that I was unable to join the military

Moving back to garrison? Son you need to read more- last check we are deployed/supporting 50 nations around the world- combat troops still in the Middle East, still getting causalities. Follow your heart- want a change up then go for it- Lots of folks in 82nd went Ranger or SF, some came back later.

one day in pre-phase, they grabbed all of us who wore glasses, and took us to the optometrist, 'cause the MEPS stations don't know the eye standards, and the optometrist at Bragg told me that if I jumped without my glasses that I would miss the ground, it was a good thing to be cut out early, my enlistment was for SF medic, and in my unit in the 82d I saw the guys who failed Med Lab, they were an emotional mess, and while in the 82d discovered I had a congenital bone deformity, there's no way I would have made SF, but you're right about looking at the rest of the Army that way. There's a local kid who wants to go SF, cause his Dad was, I tell him 1st enlistment go for something fun, for the rest create your own hard core