SITREP THREAD. Post your Progress Here.

Jay said:
Graduated BCT last Friday. Currently at AIT to be a 13F. PT starts today and we have a PT test Friday. Apparently there's only one shot as far as airborne and rangers go here. They have 60+ holdovers for airborne and rangers so they're not looking for any currently and you MUST have a 280+ pt score to be considered for rangers here. I've got a 265. I plan to get after it to reach that goal. Oh and the lack of discipline here astounds me. But the cadre are all awesome. Happy to finally be here.
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Good luck. I will just let you know that it took me a year to get a RASP date from the regular Army and it's a very long process. If you are hurting, dig deeper.
 
lucky l3fty said:
Good luck. I will just let you know that it took me a year to get a RASP date from the regular Army and it's a very long process. If you are hurting, dig deeper.
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Thank you very much! We all struggled on the PT test. Over 20 failures and I didn't hit my goal of 280, in fact my pt score went down(256) and they have no airborne slots and are only taking Ranger candidates. They said anyone with a 270 and active duty can volunteer. There's only 3 in our class. I'm pretty mad at myself for not training harder in my downtime during BCT. I'll continue to train and get my score back up. I'd like to be in the 290's by February, if they take candidates later then great! If not, I'll definitely volunteer asap! This is simply lack of preparation and being complacent which is the opposite kind of soldier I want to be. I'm ready to a be a student and learn as much as possible and prep for my first duty station. I'm hoping for the 10th mountain or 101st but frankly anything stateside would make me happy(not that it matters). Knocked out my commo test today we start land nav next week. Then HBL(more time to train) for two weeks.

PT scores during basic
Push-ups-73
Sit-ups-62
Run-13:42


PT score yesterday
Push-ups-68
Sit-ups-58
Run-13:24

I've got some gas left when I run, I can max that and it's just form on sit-ups and simply doing more pushups in my down time. We're allowed to check out kettle bells and we can use the pt field and our rucks if we want on the weekend and after 1900 to ruck, run or lift/pt. Two-a-days are coming!

Never quit!

-J
 
Congratulations walra107. Good work.

I've just finished up finals, and am preparing to carpool/PCS with another ITC student. We'll be checking in next month to start the slaying.

I've only been rucking 6 milers once a month because of my knee, but I've been putting them down in under 60 minutes with a 55lb ruck, not including water. I'm hoping I can hold the pace for 12 miles without my knee blowing up. Other than that; lots of TFblacktraining, swim intervals, and track sprints. I wish I did more LSD runs, or more mountain/leisurely hiking, but I'm eager to get back to training.
 
Headed to Fort Carson as my first duty station, I get my official orders next week but our instructors posted our duty stations last night. First thing I checked, local gyms. Military Athlete has an affiliate in the area, I'm freakin stoked!
 
Servimus said:
Well, life is full of bumps in the road. I was a 21 day non-select. I'm young, so I think that may have factored into the decision. My lack of experience was unanimously cited as part of the reason for my drop. Not sure if I'm under-analyzing this, but it seemed like the cadre just wanted me to have some experience in a line unit before coming back to selection.

Obviously this sucks massively, but I'm taking this as a learning experience. I didn't quit. I killed the gates and did solid on both of my Stars. Made it through team week pretty well and must have peered all right as well as it wasn't brought up to me at all. They told me to come back in six months, so in the mean time I'm going to push for the 173rd and hopefully spend some time in Italy, get some experience as an 11B in a good unit- maybe learn Italian. Then I'll come back to selection a better candidate.
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Remember brother, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school team. You have a great attitude about it, you will do great.
 
I hate to be that guy, but Michael Jordan was never cut from his HS basketball team, nor did Albert Einstein ever flunk out of math. They're all myths!
 
I'd like to think getting "cut" from varsity and sent to jv is a lot like not getting selected for sf and getting sent to a conventional unit. It all depends on how you look at it.
 
DAVE101 said:
I hate to be that guy, but Michael Jordan was never cut from his HS basketball team, nor did Albert Einstein ever flunk out of math. They're all myths!
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You'll never make it onto the Hacoc13 writing team if all you do all day is go around debunking fake "facts" in the news.

Not that we ever produce any of those, or anything.
 
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Was notified today that I am eligible for retraining. Now I just have to gather the necessary paperwork and submit the package.
 
Does sniper school count for this thread? I know it's not SOF but I could/would appreciate any encouragement/advice.
 
Rooster501 said:
Does sniper school count for this thread? I know it's not SOF but I could/would appreciate any encouragement/advice.
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Please tell me you are just pulling our leg with this encouragement BS.

If you need moral support (encouragement) to get through a military school you need to go find a quiet corner and choke yourself until you are dead... encouragement for B4 school of all things...

And no, sniper school doesn't count for this thread.

OMFG..
 

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