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Originally Posted by 122418b
I have a little bit different perspective.
Let me be clear. Both old prephase and Phase I and SFOT were a suckfest. A different kind of suck, but a suck non the less.
I went to SFOT in fall 88. I recently watched the special. One of other posters on this forum advised that he does not remember all that yelling. I agree. I remember very little of the cadre shouting. The course was severe enough that there was a huge drop rate.
My .02 cents
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I was less than a year behind you, and I agree...no yelling. No swearing, no name calling, no nothing. Very simply..."your task is to (insert task here)" at the end of said task, your next task is to (insert next task). The uniform and time for the next task was put out at the end of the previous task. You either showed up or not, in the correct uniform or not.
People quitting was followed by the statement "Do you wish to voluntarily withdraw from this training?" Simple yes or no was all that was accepted.
I was treated very much as a professional soldier. Though I did not ever know what the standard was, I knew that there was a standard. There was ZERO information provided regarding standards...simply "run down the marked path as fast as you can until you are told to stop". You would round a corner or crest a hill and a cadre member would be standing in the woodline, call your roster number, and you would sit there and watch others run (or walk) on past. This was the Jedi portion of it that caused many to "psych themselves out"...
I must have done something wrong, gone too slow, they saw me cut that corner through the woodline, etc.... and as such, these guys would quit.
Even later as an SFAS Cadre, I saw the same type of behavior. It was interesting to be on both sides of that fence.
SFAS has most certainly changed....but I have to defer to those in the know that they are actually doing what is best for USSF in their processes. It used to be that all the schools whooped and hollared at you. Now that "every school out there" is a gentleman's school...perhaps the extra stress of something folks aren't used to is indeed the element of progression to aid in assessment.
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