You said you came straight in with no prior service if I underatood you correctly. Were you enlisted or an officer? Getting into Special Operations like SF or SEALs has been a life long dream that I'm preparing to make happen after I finish my degree. Do you have any other advise for someone just h...

What kind of diet or eating style did you find most beneficial back when you did ultras? Correction - Not ultraS. Just one ultra, and that was enough. :mrgreen: You wouldn't want dieting advice from me. I threw up my GUs and therefore bonked hard during my ultra. I was not elite. I was an age-group...

What were some of the big differences in the hiring process for the FED LEO jobs? DId they value enlisted vs officer military experience more than others? What about education level? A couple were pretty straightforward interviews with a few simple hypothetical situations to test your judgement. An...

But I wish I had more muscle when I was in Phase 2, which was our Small Unit Tactics phase and was similar to a mini-Ranger school, except with longer movements and heavier rucks. (But we had more food than you get in Ranger School.) (The Q course has changed in the last ten years, so the names I u...

So it sounds like you're doing far less E type training after the switch to LE. How has that impacted your overall health, energy levels, strength-- what are the positives and negatives going from high volume E to (I'm assuming) much less? I find it hard to compare my endurance junkie self and with...

Did more people quit on selection, or were more people cut? What were the top 2 or 3 reasons people quit or were cut? Cheers Then there were the guys that passed land nav and didn't quit yet weren't selected. Those are called 24-day Non-Selects. (Selection was 24 days then. It might be 21 now). May...

1. Don’t quit. I don’t mean to be flippant. I was older and had a real career that I quit in order to enlist. I was highly motivated. Had I quit, I’d have to find another NG company (and most non-SF NG companies are jacked up) and I’d probably never get another shot (quitting would likely get me a ...

This might be a nothing question because it sounds like you had a very high level of endurance coming into SF (ultras, climbing, rucking), which (from what I understand) along with strength-endurance are the two areas you want to be very good at for it. If you had to go back and do it again, would ...

Did more people quit on selection, or were more people cut? What were the top 2 or 3 reasons people quit or were cut? Cheers It's a mix between three things: quitting, not passing the aforementioned land nav course, and making it to the end but not being selected. A lot quit in the first few days. ...

This is some real good stuff, thanks for doing this! You mentioned Don't Quit, do you have any mental tricks, self talk, visualization, that you've used throughout the years when you've felt on the verge of shutting down? Whether in training or on the job, any go-to techniques? I don't know. Whole ...