Honest answer, no bullshit. If you had 18 months to prepare do you think you could make it into Special Operations? How about a Tier 1 unit in JSOC?
Honest answer, no bullshit. If you had 18 months to prepare do you think you could make it into Special Operations?
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No, quite obviously not.
I need amphetamines just to get my ass out of bed and liquor to get my ass back into bed.
depends on where the starting point is
where I am currently? no, probably not
absolutely not
You are 30 plus and overweight, waking up with pains from sleeping wrong, nigga. You are not making the cut and to the level of 25y/os already on TRT and 7 years of combat experience and doing ultramarathons for fun, snap out of it.
>you
Are you projecting or something? I can't help but notice that the OP was asking you if YOU could do it.
I have a marginal chance, and I'm talking at best 5% as someone who is quite active and has spent a lot of time training. I've hiked the entirety of the App Trail (though split over multiple segments). Maybe if I turned back the clock and did all this starting when I was in my teens I'd say yes.
I don't think I could even make it to basic with a year of prep. t. lardbody
Below 30 or maybe 25 any male with no debilitating disease or major obesity could easily be whipped into shape in 18 months to pass most SF trials. Not so many are interested in a rigorous 5 or 6 days a week exercise regimen though
>below 30
You can definitely compete even when you're that age. What matters is if you managed to keep yourself in shape. Alot of SOF duded are middle aged btw.
Yes, now do a runup on when given SOF dudes started this whole ordeal and what their mindset is/was.
If you asked me 5-6 years ago, maybe. Now I'm still in shape but there's no way I could compete with young early to mid 20's guys in anything but shooting competitions maybe.
Maybe but probably not
If someone was footing my bills so I could train full time? Maybe, big maybe I could make it through Army SF selection. I like to think I could at least give it a good shot. I can be a stubborn fuck when i'm not being lazy.
No. I have a surgically reconstructed ankle and other autoimmune arthritis problems also. No chance. I can't even run. A slow jog for a very short period is all I can manage before being in pain.
fitness wise yeah but I'm glad I didn't go for it because it turns out I fucking hate getting up early as shit and being in the field sucks. maybe it sucks less if you're a high speed special forces dude idk.
would be nice to get to play with cooler weapons though.
maybe ten years ago i'd have at least a chance
now i don't think so
If living expenses were no issue, and I am training full time like an athletes 9-5 then Id probably give myself an 65-70% chance. Alot of change can happen in 3 month with rigorous training and solid instructors. The next 3 months Would probably see major improvements after getting acclimated from the first 3. I think a lot of people sell themselves short because they haven't been in a position where something has been their absolute sole focus day in and out.
There’s other ways to get health insurance once you turn 26
i made it into a "tier 2" group in my country with zero difference in fitness and mental ability than when i entered basic. i could have gone on to the "tier 1" group, but i got ptsd from one mission and became a neet.
i almost failed the personality testing, as i was borderline "too independent".
i was 18 when i hit basic. was 23 when i was accepted to the "tier 2" (after one deployment).
Nope and disinterested. Also severely myopic from eight years of engin school. I do have a crapload of skydives and scuba dives thougj.
>the tip of the "dying for israel" spear
no thanks
no, I'm 37
I cope by knowing I could do missile guidance or drone programming which would be JustAsStronk
Yes,
Land nav, and being too dumb to quit are the most important things.
I know it sounds like cope but its less a physical challenge and more of a mental one. People who have been good athletes wash out of them all the time because it takes a certain mindset to really put up with all the shit getting in.
>plus I’m nearsighted and colorblind, I’d be much better suited doing tech shit than trying to be some wannabe rambo
sure, I already run semi-marathons in my free time and I outshot pro-shooters at every level except long distance shooting, career soldiers are nowhere near that level.
in fact I'd join tomorrow if the murrikans would have me, I can speak russian btw (not russian) and I'm an autist who can pick up a language much easier than the average folk. I'm not gonna ever enlist as a grunt tho