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I need a mentor so I can be prepared for sniper School

Hey, man....nothing wrong with chicken legs.

When I was about 30, I was almost as fit as I ever was...which was when I was between 35 and 40...I was working as a carpenter foreman and up on a roof we were decking. My boss arrives, payday, gets out of his truck and yells..

"Hey! Aftermath! Are those your legs or are you riding a chicken?"

What you’re saying is that you are properly Sniper qualified unlike the United States Secret Service.

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Meeting with the army recruiter tomorrow morning for 11x contract. I'm ready. But Im gonna get my bench up minimally. I agree my chesticles are weak. I would kill the ASVAB. I didn't even realize it but I spend a year studying hard for each section. Math, technical knowledge, writing, anatomy and physiology (not on test), grammar, etc etc. its like Gods hand was guiding me the entire time. Powerlifting when I was 17-19. Best deadlift was 405 for 1, I then started running a 10k a day for 1.5 years everyday didn't miss a single day cause I used David goggins as inspiration. Got more functional and useful strength.
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Their used to be a video of 2 guys doing pistol drills while doing cartwheels and somersaults it was hilarious. My Google fu has failed to find it.
 
Their used to be a video of 2 guys doing pistol drills while doing cartwheels and somersaults it was hilarious. My Google fu has failed to find it.
I’m pretty sure I know the guy you’re talking about. Did some firearm training with him. He was pretty intense and then he moved about 4 hours away and started some sort of training school. He would do cartwheels and shoot his pistol one handed while he was upside down. All kinds of funny stuff like that.
 
The US army has confirmed an aspect of surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden's military service to the Guardian.

As Snowden told the Guardian in announcing his responsibility for detailing multiple mass surveillance efforts by the National Security Agency sweeping up Americans' communications data, he indeed tried to join the elite special forces.
His attempt was unsuccessful.

"His records indicate he enlisted in the army reserve as a special forces recruit (18X) on 7 May 2004 but was discharged 28 September 2004," the US army's chief civilian spokesman, George Wright, said by email on Monday. (In his Guardian interview, Snowden gave the year as 2003.)


"He did not complete any training or receive any awards," Wright added.

The army did not release Snowden's entire service record, a form known as a DD-214, despite the Guardian's request. A DD-214 typically details a military service member's entire career history, such as locations of his or her billets, job responsibilities and honorable or dishonorable discharges – none of which the army disclosed on Monday. Nor did the army explain the reason for Snowden's incomplete special forces recruitment.

Typically, so-called 18X candidates are approved to try out for a position in the army special forces, often after passing a vocational aptitude test, but selection to the elite cadre is never guaranteed. Training is a rigorous physical and mental challenge lasting 14 weeks.

The Guardian reported, citing Snowden, that his military career was cut short after "he broke both his legs in a training accident."

I was working at this, aaahhhh, agency… And I was in the chow hall standing next to a 12-year-old. So, as happens, you have this running commentary in your head, “I wonder when they started letting 12 year-old 5 foot six midgets in the army?”

The guy turns to pay the cashier and I see that he’s an army Sergeant… then I noticed that he’s an army special forces Sergeant… who looks like he’s 12.

I start thinking back to my day and I am perplexed “ holy shit how does that guy have six years in the army before he was able to apply for special forces?”

One of the guys in my team tells me that you can apply for special forces directly and go in as a special forces candidate. That wasn’t how it was when I was in… they wanted people that had at least one enlistment under their belt.

But that guy was young man, and he pulled it off and was with us for his specialization… gotta be impressed one way or another.
 
I was working at this, aaahhhh, agency… And I was in the chow hall standing next to a 12-year-old. So, as happens, you have this running commentary in your head, “I wonder when they started letting 12 year-old 5 foot six midgets in the army?”

The guy turns to pay the cashier and I see that he’s an army Sergeant… then I noticed that he’s an army special forces Sergeant… who looks like he’s 12.

I start thinking back to my day and I am perplexed “ holy shit how does that guy have six years in the army before he was able to apply for special forces?”

One of the guys in my team tells me that you can apply for special forces directly and go in as a special forces candidate. That wasn’t how it was when I was in… they wanted people that had at least one enlistment under their belt.

But that guy was young man, and he pulled it off and was with us for his specialization… gotta be impressed one way or another.

When the Majors and Master Sergeants started to look like kids, I knew it was time to retire. 😉
 
I was working at this, aaahhhh, agency… And I was in the chow hall standing next to a 12-year-old. So, as happens, you have this running commentary in your head, “I wonder when they started letting 12 year-old 5 foot six midgets in the army?”

The guy turns to pay the cashier and I see that he’s an army Sergeant… then I noticed that he’s an army special forces Sergeant… who looks like he’s 12.

I start thinking back to my day and I am perplexed “ holy shit how does that guy have six years in the army before he was able to apply for special forces?”

One of the guys in my team tells me that you can apply for special forces directly and go in as a special forces candidate. That wasn’t how it was when I was in… they wanted people that had at least one enlistment under their belt.

But that guy was young man, and he pulled it off and was with us for his specialization… gotta be impressed one way or another.
When I went through you had to be an e4p to go to selection. A lot has changed.
If he lives in Bradenton/Palmetto and has a basement, he's under water
That's just good scuba training.
 
I was working at this, aaahhhh, agency… And I was in the chow hall standing next to a 12-year-old. So, as happens, you have this running commentary in your head, “I wonder when they started letting 12 year-old 5 foot six midgets in the army?”

The guy turns to pay the cashier and I see that he’s an army Sergeant… then I noticed that he’s an army special forces Sergeant… who looks like he’s 12.

I start thinking back to my day and I am perplexed “ holy shit how does that guy have six years in the army before he was able to apply for special forces?”

One of the guys in my team tells me that you can apply for special forces directly and go in as a special forces candidate. That wasn’t how it was when I was in… they wanted people that had at least one enlistment under their belt.

But that guy was young man, and he pulled it off and was with us for his specialization… gotta be impressed one way or another.

IIRC… they were called “Special Forces Babies.” Direct to Assessment started after Gulf War. They were trying to build up the Groups.

Oh and ever meet Mike Vickers! You would have thought he was in middle school…. Or maybe you did meet Mike Vickers ;-)

Sirhr
 
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IIRC… they were called “Special Forces Babies.” Direct to Assessment started after Gulf War. They were trying to build up the Groups.

Oh and ever meet Mike Vickers! You would have thought he was in middle school…. Or maybe you did meet Mike Vickers ;-)

Sirhr
I remember one time when I was running the cargo ramp in Kuwait City shortly after we seized it before the push North into Iraq, when an old flying buddy of mine came through. He was then doing the super spooky shit that I only ever saw from the periphery, and it was good to catch up while he was there for a quick gas and go.

Long story short, his jet broke and he comes up to me and says “Hey man, can you get us rooms for the aircrew?”

I said of course, of course, and that’s when he popped the real question… “Yeah, my crew is 75 people, so…”

LoL, O fucking L.

Couldn’t officially affirm that team was there at the time, so they were all part of the crew…not passengers. After 1/2 hour or so of scrambling; including moving most of my team, including me and my roommate out of our rooms, we got them settled.

After we got them all squared away my buddy comes back over with a guy in tow who literally looked like he was a teenager. He introduced us to each other and pointed out that “Mr. Xxx is our troop commander, and he wanted to say thanks for the assist.” The guy pulls out a coin, and we do the whole coin exchange thing, and then I flipped his coin over to the other side.

Dude was a friggin’ one-star General! I did an obvious double take, and he just laughed and said something to the effect of “Yeah, I get that a lot; helps to be underestimated and ignored in my business.”

I still have that coin in a case on top of a bookcase in my home office, and still can’t believe that ‘kid’ was a 1 star! LoL
 
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But I immediately dropped and settled. Where there is a doe, there is usually a buck sniffing her out. Sure enough, 30 minutes later, I could hear rustling and some scraping but it was far enough away that I chalked it up to lucky scouting and data for next time.

And then this joke I made.

So, Happy Thankgiving for me.
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So when are we invited over for venison tenderloin?