Re: How do you identify Seal fakes
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: War-Dog-Nemo</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mike</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As far as the straight to BUDs thing from boot camp they had that back in the early 90's in Great Lakes. You were "guaranteed" an opportunity to take the test for it. If you passed the test, you were GTG. I remember that all of the "water" schools, i.e. BUDs, Diver, EOD, RS had extra PT they had to do to prepare for the "test". But supposedly the guys that passed the BUDs entry test was guaranteed an opportunity to go to BUDs although they may have had to go to their "A" school first. </div></div>
Yep, should have been "A" school first. I think, (note I said "I think", I was trying to look into it some but I was having very little luck, before I spouted off about the way it was vs the was it is...
) they moved it from Orlando to Great Lakes in the early 90's when they stopped offering it in Orlando right before the closing. I have been out of touch for some time on the way it works now. It was more PT and prepared everyone for the test, there were SEALS, EOD, and Diver guys there that supervised the training and testing. Everything seemed a little more stict and geared differently than regular fleet guys. Plus, extra time was put in at night, after lights out doing push ups and pull ups on racks, whatever could be done to increase your chances of success. If you made the test you were into which ever it was you were slotted for, Diver school, EOD school or BUDS,(Diver test was easier than EOD test, EOD test was easier than BUDS test) but back then you went to A school before reporting for duty at Diver, EOD or BUDS, unless for some reason you could not get into your A school within a reasonable amount of time. I knew no one that happened to. If you were finished with your A school before your BUDS or whatever rotation came around, you did a little fleet time at some misc BS stuff they could dig up for you (Guard Duty on base....lol..ship time....whatever). </div></div>
In 97 it was straight to BUDs IIRC. Two guys in my division took the test and passed, said they were headed to school asap. Both were BMs or GMs so not sure if A school was like 2 weeks or if it didnt matter. That may have changed at this point though.
