Now that's just mean man....mean.....but very true....you're always being assessed:D

The Pit
 

We didn't have the log PT or that rolling back and forth crud. It looks like it really sucks! Who's in charge of the morning chow anyway? The eggs looked a little runny.

Surprising how many candidates quit on the first day. I realize it's only pre phase but these guys are prepping for months and then say they didn't have their minds right. I wonder what they think about during the duffle bag drag?


Back at your old unit:

"How did you do soldier? Well sir, I was hanging tough for the first hour and half"


LHC

My wife said that there was a candidate that fell asleep during land-nav and outright hid his reflector vest and ruck.

God that had to been amusing to see a cadre walk up on him in middle of the night!

I have to agree. Especially for the 18x's that have never been to any other school other then Sand Hill and Airborne. The intensity is so much higher. On TV it would seem intense but in real life the constant strain on all your senses and muscles will get to you and break you down quick.

Talking about SFAS, when was the first class started?

AL

There is an entire thread dedicated to that somewhere, but it is generally in the 1988 range, having been preceded by SFOT.

TR

Non-SFAS
 

There were still some non-SFAS students in the system in 1990. Failure required the student to go through SFAS before being recycled - of course there were a number who said "No" and others who did not make it through.

For the ones that did - It was a real "gut check".

I went in 1988. WOW

I am getting old, but what fun I am having with it!!!


It was the summer of '88, it was three weeks, and it had a suck factor of 1000!!

But damm glad I did it.


AL F.

Thanks

Motivation
 

I never heard that.Can you imagine? Get nailed at the end of Robin Sage and having to suck up SFAS as a result? That would be a little extra motivation when your running out of gas.

Watching the show, it's almost not fair anymore. The technology they have now really gives the cadre an edge. How is a student supposed to avoid the swamp when you are wearing a gps and the choke points have thermal nvg?:D

Well I think it’s continuing to do what it was meant to, one of my old troops called me yesterday and said he had seen the program, said it looked tough as hell but made him want to go for it at the same time, if he didn't have a medical issue that precluded him from doing so I think he'd do great.

Went to Mackall '66 for LZ & DZ training.

Some of you were not even an EVIL GLEAM in your dad's eye yet!!! :D

BMT

WOW your older then me... 65 I took shape. You give me hope in a long life...

:munchin

When I went through the pipeline back in '84 I can remember a number of candidates getting driven away in a white van by the Cadre and never to be seen again. This happened from Pre-phase all of the way through phase III. We lost one officer and about a dozen elisted guys. We never found out what happened to them. I suspected that they were psychologically evaluated and then terminated or simply interviewed by the SWTG CSM and then terminated. Anyway, I guess even though we didn't realize it they were actually watching us pretty closely and also doing some type of 'selecting'.

Your suspicions are incorrect. There was no interview, they were ground up into LRRP meals. They were part of your resupply bundle. Yum!