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Yes, I'm here at great old benning. I'm glad I drove here because I would be be terribly bored otherwise.
I'm at Pre-RASP
Make sure you are keeping yourself healthy and stretched out, prevent those injuries before they happen! Your lucky, you'll be going through at a great time of year, weather wise. Shouldn't be any ice out at Cole Range...
Hmm, where are those genuine Marie Laveau chicken bones when I need them.....
Stay out of trouble. Stay focused. You can party and whatnot some other day, just not now.
Good luck!
I'm convinced that place is in a dome where Regiment controls the weather.
It's like the Hunger Games dome from the movie, someone is sitting in the SCIF pushing buttons and bringing blizzards, tornadoes, hurricanes, freezing rain, packs of wild hogs, floods, etc. onto Cole Range and the surrounding area.
I think most schools are. They told us they ordered rain for SERE, and on the last day.. we got it.
Goodluck, it's going to be fun, some of my favorite memories come from that school. Are you going to Pendleton?
Oh and find a pole ;)
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Quantico
Greetings all!
I just got out of CLT and am ready to begin Phase 1 Monday. Hydrating and staying out of trouble this weekend as well as getting my detail packing list together.
The SGL's and leadership from CLT were top notch, I'm feeling motivated and ready for what's ahead.
I hope all is well!
Tweeder
I just got out of CLT and am ready to begin Phase 1 Monday. Hydrating and staying out of trouble this weekend as well as getting my detail packing list together.
The SGL's and leadership from CLT were top notch, I'm feeling motivated and ready for what's ahead.
I hope all is well!
Tweeder
What happens next?
6 weeks of learning how Regiment does stuff. First responder, mobility, shooting and breaching. I will update when I get closer to graduation.
I only chose cole range to give an update because it's like the "big hump".
I still can't get over this "new normal" with the extremely low attrition rate.
If we counted the people who quit in pre rasp the rate would be huge and look more like all the other SOF selection rates. The kids coming out of basic for example had around 70 people with option 40s from one group. There are 5 of the original 70 left.
I have personally seen around 70 or so people at pre rasp get kicked or quit the month I was there. The guys who actually class up are the ones that want to be here now.
I wonder what RFS rates are looking like. We had over 150 enter my RIP class from hold, in which guys also quit, and 53 graduated. 19 of us ended up at 1st Batt. and when we showed up guys just talked about how much harder RIP was for them and smoked our balls all the time. Like a year later 9 of us that originally showed up from my RIP class remained.
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Small victory- graduated from University of Florida on Sunday with my BA in Religion and a 3.48 GPA. Not amazing but I finished this all debt free, in 4 years and with a decent enough GPA that won't hinder me if I should ever head off to grad school. Currently getting in shape for the Navy Challenge PST. I have only been working out for about 2 months now but in that time I've lost over 20 pounds, gone from doing pushups on my knees and unable to finish even a mile to my current scores of :
1.5 mile run- 1230 (not passing, still need to cut 2 mins off but I haven't done a 1.5 timed in about 3 weeks so I'm sure its dropped with increasing my intervals and my LSD runs to 3 miles)
500 yard Swim- 1135. Passing is 1230. Still need to get this down.
Sit-ups- 88. Passing is 50. Almost "optimum" (that being 90).
Push-ups- my scoring has me at 75, passing is 50, though I will wager that a motivator would count some off. I will work on my form and get that set.
Pull-ups- 10. That is the minimum. I need to work on those but it has been great to get from only doing 1 about 6-7 weeks ago to passing. They are my favorite of the 3 calisthenics so I will definitely improve on these.
I know I need to improve my scores to pick up a contract. I am not aiming for the minimum. My practice-AFQT (I am not sure what the official name is) score was good according to the recruiter, so passing the ASVAB should not be an issue. I will continue to run, swim and box for another couple of weeks before heading into the recruiter to get the ball rolling. I am realistic about getting an SO contract right off the bat, and realize I would need a lot of things to fall into place to get one on my first try, but I think at least meeting up with the North Florida motivator and getting one under my belt, pass or fail, is a good idea.
Like I said, I need to keep improving and I am honestly ashamed of the kind of shape I let myself get into. I am just taking time to enjoy my little victories before refocusing on the next 5m target. I will continue to keep everyone posted.
1.5 mile run- 1230 (not passing, still need to cut 2 mins off but I haven't done a 1.5 timed in about 3 weeks so I'm sure its dropped with increasing my intervals and my LSD runs to 3 miles)
500 yard Swim- 1135. Passing is 1230. Still need to get this down.
Sit-ups- 88. Passing is 50. Almost "optimum" (that being 90).
Push-ups- my scoring has me at 75, passing is 50, though I will wager that a motivator would count some off. I will work on my form and get that set.
Pull-ups- 10. That is the minimum. I need to work on those but it has been great to get from only doing 1 about 6-7 weeks ago to passing. They are my favorite of the 3 calisthenics so I will definitely improve on these.
I know I need to improve my scores to pick up a contract. I am not aiming for the minimum. My practice-AFQT (I am not sure what the official name is) score was good according to the recruiter, so passing the ASVAB should not be an issue. I will continue to run, swim and box for another couple of weeks before heading into the recruiter to get the ball rolling. I am realistic about getting an SO contract right off the bat, and realize I would need a lot of things to fall into place to get one on my first try, but I think at least meeting up with the North Florida motivator and getting one under my belt, pass or fail, is a good idea.
Like I said, I need to keep improving and I am honestly ashamed of the kind of shape I let myself get into. I am just taking time to enjoy my little victories before refocusing on the next 5m target. I will continue to keep everyone posted.
