Posted: 4/22/2007 7:58:58 PM EDT
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1. 11B re-class complete. 2. Airborne training complete. 3. SOPC 1 complete. 4. Selection. VW'd Next... Airborne unit? |
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Either you're misinformed, full of it or just not a good proof reader. Unless something has changed when it went to selection (got hurt, didn't make it) Everything with SF in front of it is going to happen at or near Camp McCall, North Carolina outside Fort Bragg. After Airborne you won't see Benning again unless you go for the triple canopy. Further, your expectations of getting in are entirely off chart. There are plenty of people that don't quit, don't get hurt and then MAKE IT THROUGH THE ENTIRE COURSE WITH FLYING COLORS without getting selected. Especially if you reuped to go to selection they may pass you over just to see if you're willing to come back. These aren't know nothing pouges and they aren't some block headed infantryman guarding that beret. Don't show up expecting to get in or believe me when I say you won't. I went right after 9/11 when every news story around said spec ops was in bad need of people and there were still people who "passed" without getting "selected." They'd rather have not enough and have to shoulder an extra pack than have the wrong kind and have to haul around dead weight. Not trying to be a dick. Just telling you what I learned and saw. |
I know after I finish airborne my time in Benning is done. I know SOCOM drops guys for no apparent reasons. Every one I've talked to in person who is in or was in a SF background says positive thinking, not getting hurt, and not giving up are the keys to getting selected (Along with almost every book I've dug up on getting selected) If for no other reason than those are the only things you have control over. It is some of the toughest, hardest most demanding training in the world. Also since I have made it further in the training pipeline I have learned more on what when and where my training will take place. I know it's not a done deal, I know many if not most don't make it. If they toss me back and tell me to come back in six months I will. If they tell me I'm not what they are looking for and don't come back I'll deal with it. |
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If you havent already, I suggest reading Get Selected, by Maj. Joe Martin. It's availible from Warrior-Mentor. Sheep |
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Go to Quiet Professionals Good luck, don't talk shit about the guard (especially about the 19th & 20th Group), don't be a dick and don't get peered out. 
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From what my old friends have told me.... Consistency is the key to selection. |
VW'd  I quit.  Holy F*** Balls!!! Needless to say it was the hardest training, smoking, rucking exc exc I've ever done. Those of you who think a person is weak for quiting SFAS are clueless. I've have to go to the TMC to have my feet X-ray'd. No hard feelings. No regrets. I know why and understand why I quit and feel no obligation to say my reasons here. How ever. I may try again in a couple years maybe not. I'd have the option if I get a waiver. If the issues with my feet are bad it could support my waiver. On another note. I'm off to unit assignment. I'll let you guys know where I end up. TTFN 101'st  82nd ...  Italy ...
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy course; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat." - THEODORE ROOSEVELT (Paris Sorbonne, 1910) |
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Last thing SF wants is to RTU a guy whos broken and cant share the knowledge with potential candidates... Better to have him come back when hes more menatlly fit in the area he failed in tha to just bin him with no chance of a comeback and just make him bitter through the whole experience...that becomes counter productive down the line when the SF have to work with regular troops...but this is just and old Para talking so what would I know |
Nope, you finish selection, you get your completion certificate and often get an invite to come back. its such a smoker, few do, but some have and get picked up later (so I have heard). |
