I'm pretty sure you do quite a few more then 17 jumps to get qualified in military HALO (I hated jumping and had no interest in going myself) wiki said 30 jumps per course to qualify MFF.
His dates of service give him 4 years active which is nowhere near enough time to meet the prequisites and qualify for the high speed intel units which might be even remotely connected to something like that.
We had one guy on my first team that couldn't shoot a pistol worth a hoot, but man could he run a M240.
