04-25-2008, 01:22
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Asset
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Huntsville, AL
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Thanks! Just ordered a copy. This, coupled with "Chosen Solider" should paint a nice SFAS picture.
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04-30-2008, 15:15
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Littleton, CO
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-edit #5 Do not talk about SFAS events.
LOL
gotta love the mind games
Best advice from an SF Candidate to date. Do not talk about SFAS events.
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Reason: NO G2.
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04-30-2008, 16:51
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Littleton, CO
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05-01-2008, 09:40
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SF Candidate
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Ft. Belvoir, VA
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My buddy advised to ruck with a gallon jug of water in each hand. This gets you ready for the rifle you carry, and increases your overall grip strength and endurance. Sounds like good advice to me.
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05-01-2008, 10:01
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MD2colo
-edit #5 Do not talk about SFAS events.
LOL
gotta love the mind games
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Listen up sugar britches; you won’t think they are "mind games" after the first enemy rounds are cracking past your head. They’re reasons we do what we do in training and preparation.
Also a lot of you guys should be very thankful we now incorporate SFAS, otherwise the attrition rate would be a whole lot higher.
Read more and post less. I don't want to see advice from non-SF soldiers, ie SF Candidates.
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05-01-2008, 10:05
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Onuma
My buddy advised to ruck with a gallon jug of water in each hand. This gets you ready for the rifle you carry, and increases your overall grip strength and endurance. Sounds like good advice to me.
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And I heard that wrestling with grizzly bears will also make you tougher.
Save the "I heard" for the hollywood gossip columns. Take advice from the Special Forces soldiers past and present.
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05-01-2008, 10:24
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Free Pineland
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MoPro
Thanks! Just ordered a copy. This, coupled with "Chosen Solider" should paint a nice SFAS picture.
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"Chosen Solider"?
I would quit trying to G2 the course, and spend more time rucking and doing PT.
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05-01-2008, 14:15
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Asheville, N.C.
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Just got selected in April's class.
The best advice I can give is concentrate on cardio and have your boots fitting like slippers by the time you go. I was doing two workouts a day leading up to SFAS and every workout I did incorporated some sort of running / rucking (also helped with breaking in the boots). The two biggest things that helped me get selected were the fact that I had such great cardio and my boots fit so well.
I can't stress it enough. Even when I was in the gym to lift weights...the workout would start and end with a one mile run.
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05-01-2008, 16:58
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Nashville
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Cardio,pain tolerance, attitude .
I am always reminded of how it was when I 'm tired. When I'm tired I still make a point of doing more work. A thing to do prep wise is to fatique yourself with some hard work and PT. Then when you are not feeling like it, pick up that ruck and do a ten K. Much of what I remember of operations in Group was wind, rain, snow, cold, scalding heat, and pitch dark, isthey are all just a paragraph in an op order. Your best work will be done in these conditions and in places no one else would go, and you'll be tired and hurting but that will not stop you. SF thrives where others just survive. Blitz
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05-04-2008, 17:25
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Huntsville, AL
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I first read C.S. a while back when I started reading anything I could about the history and mission [..anything, really] of the Army Special Forces - I am a big fan of research, permitting. Learned a good bit and developed a stronger sense of respect for the people that even tryout, and a great deal for those who make it... (and the need for some good boots and a level head). So re: the PT, very strong copy, TR.
respectfully
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05-05-2008, 09:13
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Wherever my ruck finds itself
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Originally Posted by MoPro
...I am a big fan of research, permitting...
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Morgan:
There is nothing wrong with researching SF. However, it isnt the test (or a picture as you put it) that a candidate needs. They need the answers that can only be found in the heart. Those seeking to find other sources for "the answers" are cheating themselves, the Regiment, and our Brothers.
We arent looking for individuals who can find the answers in a book but someone who has the answers no matter the test they face.
I would have picked a different book though, but then again I am looking at CS from a different perspective than you. As TR said, your time would be better spent PT-ing.
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05-05-2008, 13:46
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Huntsville, AL
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Copy. I am continually soul searching and having heart to hearts with myself and occasionally my mom (my dad nearly disowned me when I applied to the service academies)... the mission that SF carries out is one that I believe in. It is why I am trying to learn as much about what it is you do [and have done] so I can make the best life decision possible... I feel it in my heart, but I need to more in my mind (how it will affect family is my main concern).
Again, thank you to all the QPs for that life decision you made when you enlisted/commissioned.
Respectfully,
Morgan
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06-01-2008, 19:55
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Quiet Professional
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: America, the Beautiful
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The Cat's Out of the Bag...
Anybody seen the May 2008 issue of "Warrior Link" from the Special Operations Warrior Foundation?
Page 25 is thanks to all of your contributions!
We've busted the 6 figure mark...officially raised over $100,000!!!!!
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06-01-2008, 21:18
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Great News Sir, and six months ahead of scheduale.
On a different note, news back from the most recent 18X BCT is that around 60% of candidates dropped their 18X contract before even completeing Basic and as much as 80%+ havn't heard of the book.
Many of them seem to ship very quickly after enlisting and many of them walked into the recruiting office not knowing what 18X was. Surely the book could make all the difference here?
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06-01-2008, 22:16
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It certainly couldn't hurt.
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