Navy SEAL Reacts To "SEAL Training Has Become Too Harsh" 

Fairness for the sake of being fair impairs both the weak and the strong. Fairness artificially pulls the incompetent UP to a norm despite having insufficient ability. Fairness artificially pulls the competent DOWN to that same norm despite having proved greater ability. And, that is unfair.

@Chris, no offence butt did you keep the moustache, beard and glasses for pride month? 🤣

@@TriAngles3D Agree!

At the end where u say press here their was nothing to press homie

@@The.world.has.gone.crazy... ​​⁠ leave the mustache ride alone lol he looks fine (for others not for me lol) to me he just looks like a guy . To me everyone looks like where’s waldo ….found him!

Same here. Sometimes it's a tough row to hoe, but definitely the best 2 decisions I ever made. One was to join (12/77) and the other to leave (10/05). Unless you're in spec-ops (or equivalent), no place to be nowadays...

If Andy has his way and people like him you wouldn't have been able to join at all. He's saying to raise the standards above people like you. Not sure you caught that.

@@MachineGunPepe that's not what I took from what he said. I joined because it was going to be difficult and the standards of difficulty shouldn't be lowered.

@@dard4642 He's also talking about general requirements for eligibility that's why @jwong12 and I are sure if he had his way, recovering drug addicts, hs dropouts like you were, would not have been given an opportunity or allowed to enlist.

Yeah I need my ass kicked too but my girlfriend won’t do it lmao and our military would just hug me and tell me everything is ok. Bar fight? Maybe.

I’ve never been to war, but I deeply believe the time and effort I spent training in martial arts is what saved my life when I found myself being violently carjacked, so I also would say I believe in that quote.

It’s a spartan quote I believe

Marcinko did not say that! Demo Dick and his books are pretty much garbage. Unless you are in the Marcinko cult.

America has fallen due to slogans and racism. Slogans like " God bless America", like God is exclusively ours.🤔

@@Smilez-m1s America is being judged because we've all allowed the professionals to fuck us six ways to hell!!

They have a thing called fat camp in the army for recruits before they go to basic you’d probably get in

David goggins?

@@mr.chilll5179 No but I am a huge Goggins fan!

@@scottyg5403 who isn't 😊

@@mr.chilll5179 people who dont know about him id assume...

"Yah, that quote is fake." Joe Rogan

"I have become death the destroyer of worlds" - Gandhi

​@@jaymann5180"not anymore its not" - jesus

“Be sure to double-check the veracity of quotes before posting them online” - Lao Tzu

“ There is all the difference in the world between treating people equally and attempting to make them equal. While the first is the condition of a free society, the second means as De Tocqueville describes it, a new form of servitude.” Friedrich Hayek, Individualism and Economic Order

Wow what a bunch of horseshit. Sorry had to get that out. Have you ever served in the Teams? Yeh I thought not as out of a country of 330 million and a military of 2.2 million there are only about 2,500 SEALs currently serving and maybe 8000 who have ever existed. I also was not a SEAL but I was a LRS Scout( the Armys equivalant to Force Recon except for Force does Direct Action in addition to Recon and Surveillance where LRS just does Recon and Surveillance and the occasional Sniper mission but they avoid gun fights. I also spent 4 years with Special Forces but was not a Green Beret but was assigned with two ODAs in Afghsnistan in a Support Role and was part of the Support Company. US Special Forces Command( USSFC).has 20,937 people in it only 5,000 are Green Berets. My point is I though I wasnt a SEAL or Green Beret I was a Special Fiorces Candiate/ Trainee who got the opportunity to choose between deploying and going to the QCourse when I got back or staying at Bragg instead of deploying and I chose to go down range( this was just after 911 in 2002.) So I have worked alongside b all the guys you just mentioned I did missions alongside SF and SEALs and Airforce Special Ops. Delta was across the street from us and we didnt work with them much but we had former DBoys on our teams. We also had former Recon and SEALs who were now SF Soldiers. My best friend was with SWCC before coming to LRS and SF with me. All of my best friends and family are either Recon Marines, SF or work in the IC. So while Im not one of these guys they treat me like family to which I will feel forever honored. Because of my service in SF I can wear an SF Combat Patch along with my CIB and Airborne Wings and I wear them with pride. I never got the chance to get qualified because I got wounded in combat and medivaced ( Shot, Blown up by an IED and later got stage 4 Cancer)on my third deployment. I also was later a PMC Cotractor and DDM Counter Sniper so I was trained by guys like Andy and Shawn Ryan( though not them specifically)The point here is while I wont claim to be an expert I at least have a basis for my knowlege on the topic. Im not some outsider I did 15 years all together around this Community and a few more as a Contractor.If you didnt you probably should consider that your talking out your ass(news flash you are talking out your fourth point of contact) and anyone whos been arround this community fot 5 seconds will spot it so maybe just shut up and listen instead of running your suck.( always a good idea). I would not even have said a damn thing to you but you got A. Insulting to some of the finest Americans walking the planet and B. You dont know what the f**k your talking about and are spouting bullshit and I feel obligated to call you out on it. To be clear this is America and more importantly the internet you can have what ever opinion you choose and say what ever you want. I fought and gave my health and youth so you could continue to talk shit and so did they. Just dont expect when your wrong someone wont call you out because they probably will. Today thats me. I mean it only as eduction and despite my choice of language there is no ill will here. Now first, no they dont all have the same job they all have very different missions that none the less intersect and overlap but they have different jobs different training(,though they have some common skillsets) and different orgsnizational culture. SEALs and Rangers are Dirctect Action Shock Troops( Commandos) SEALs are Naval Commandos. Making there job maybe a bit more technical but the Rangers are catching up in that catigory. At the end of the day their job is to kick down doors and shoot bad guys in the face. A common question for new guys is " ever been in a fist fight or when was the last time"? This is a big red flag you about to get your ass beat. because being able to do exteme levels of violence on our nstions behalf to protect it is whats necissary for the job. After getting wounded and being assigned to work as an Intel Analyst and PERSEC Admin in at the 173rd Airborne Brigade inn Vicenza Italy I had a young PFC who just left Ranger Regiment that worked for me and he decribed this to me but I had also seen it many times my self( and had it happen to me) Reguardless of passing selection when you show up as an unkown and untested entity the team has to know you arent going to get squeamish. Its very much like the Spartan Agoge. in a sense. SEALs and Rangers are recruited young..For BUDS you must be between 18-28. There are rare waivers to 30 but very rare and are usually only granted for guys coming from other elite units. Most guys in BUDS and RASP are straight out of Basic Training or new LTs straight out of College. So not only do they not have a culture of quiet professionals no one expects them to be. They are loud, rude, drink alot, fight at the drop of a hat etc. If you ever see Navy SEAL and Ranger Belgain Malinois K9s they have the exact same mentality as their handlers. They have to grow into quiet professionals so by the time the few that get to Devgru get there they are a bit more desceet but still a bit of a pitbull on a leash. The problem is that its not a job that is coducive to longevity. During the Vietnam Conflict only 276 SEALs went to Vietnam and 46 of them died there and another 40 retired. This means there are not a large ammount of older matured SEALs and they are constatly being replaced with new young guys and as the Rangers are larger this is true there to. The guys who do mature into "Quiet Professionals" wind up going to work Devgru, Delta and maybe the Agency. Lets look at Marcus Lutrell one of the more well known SEALs. His career. was all of 6 years and because he was a Medic almost two years of that was spent training to be a SEAL and his entire platoon died. Not just the three guys on his Special Recon Team but the 15 guys that came to rescue him as well. Each of those guys including LCDR Kristensen their commander and LT Murphy all had joined around the same time. LCDR Jocco Willink, Chris Kyle, Eddie Ghallager, Rob Oniel and David Goggins are all guys with 20.year careers but they are the exceotion not the rule. Green Berets on the other hand are not door kicking Commados. Their job is to go to other countries where the US is maybe going to fight and organize resistance and guerrilla armies to fight with and for us. They also do Foreign Internal Defense where they train our Military Allies official armies. SF Soldiers on ODAs are all NCOs between E5-E8. Unlike a Ranger or SEAL Platoon there are no Junior enlisted except for the occasional attached support guy or student like myself and most of those guys are just waiting to be promoted. They are certainly capable of doing DA doorkicking missions but its not their specialty or culture. The guys in SF who do specialize in that stuff in what used to be called CIF Teams are the most senior and experienced guys in the SF Group because in Terms of Skill they are just south.of Delta and some may be former Delta guys. SF Culure is where the whole quiet professional.thing came from and its simply because its a different job Rangers and SEALs work unilaterally as a Platoon doing missions where they are caturing or killing High Value Targets, Performing Direct Action Raids, Airfield Siezures, blowing shit up doing Boarding Search and Siezure etc. In Special Forces they focus on Unconventional.Warfare and do it in a very specific way. Each pair of NCOs on an ODA will act as a Company Commander and XO for a group of 100 guerilla fighters. They recruit train and lead them. This requires a much higher level of maturity and descetion. I watched a podcast yesterday with a guy from CIAs SAD/SOG that started as a Recon Marnie, became a Green Beret and then wound up in the Agency and he described very accurately that the shit that is second nature on the SEAL Teams will get you booted off an ODA. As a result of being quiet professionals they also get a much wider lattitude becsuse they have proven they can be descreet. This is why Devgru and Delta guys bump heads alot even though they work together. Its because of their units cultural differences and the fact Delta guys have a culture of keeping shit low key SF was founded in 1952 and was an outgrowth of PSYOPS and SEALs.didnt come along till 62 and by the end of Vietnam when there had only been two teams as opposed to the ten they have now 46 had died and a bunch more retired in the following yrs so while SF was very active the SEALs had to spend alot of time reconstituting and building their numbers as well as refining their doctrine for the future. So between 72-82 they hadnt done alot. When SEAL Team Six jumped into the waters off Geneda in 1983 they were only two and a half years old and like Deltas first mission a few years earlier in 1980 it was a disaster. The Airforce Special Ops Community mainly provides support to all the other units in USSOCOM and also conventional.units. PJs provide Combat Search and Rescue Service to Air Combat Command in rescuing downed pilots as well as CSAR for other special ops units. If you ever saw Blackhawk Down they dont say it in the film but the guys who came in and extracted the pilots from the Blackhawks and treated them inside the downed aircraft were PJs. CCTs are battlefield FAA Cetritified Air Traffic Controllers they coordinate Arial invasions from the ground. TACPs guide bombs onto targets and direct close airsupport. Airforce Special Ops pipeline is so long that candidates have to sign a six year contract to get in. They are often formerly from other Special Ops units that along with AF culture leads to alot more seasoned and matured operator.

Nailed it.

@@joshualittle877thank you for this, it gave me an extended amount of clarity, you touched on a topic I’ve been seeking out for months when it comes to the caliber of Individuals and atmosphere would be right for me. And your explanation helped me out the most.

Like they said 80% of people in America are overweight. That would and should disqualify 80% of people from the start

Yup. Your end product is a person who can be a war fighter. The most brutal, demanding and unforgiving activity on earth. Thx for your service.

That's because back in 1975 you could get a job making the 2023 equivalent of $27/hour with a high school education. Now companies are demanding university education for $15/hour jobs. The companies are requiring it so the population is responding so they can get jobs. Talk to Wall Street. Tell them to make their standards of entry level jobs more realistic.

@@snowbear163 That's just a lie bro. You do not need a university education for a $15 an hour job.

passed*

i think this is great, now people who actually have ambitions and are good at any craft get to use their talent and hard work to earn money, instead of everyone going to college sitting there for 3 years doing nothing to get high paying job

@@BrandonHeat243 there are loads of jobs that pay $15/hr and require a university degree.

Studies have shown diversity reduced trust in communities and reduced union rates in work environments. Basically no one trusts anyone and cohesive social structure falls apart

Meritocracy means “rule by merit.” A free people are not ruled. Neither diversity nonsense nor meritocracy are the answer. The answer is to return to individualism and limited government tightly constrained to the singular purpose of protecting liberty.

​@gregdaugherty6065 100%

@@gregdaugherty6065 okay that's interesting. "Most qualified person for the job" is all I'm saying. That's the mindset that seems to have gone missing in so many Americans. Thanks for the info on the definition

@@tidepride86 “most qualified” is subjective. Also, the “most qualified” doesn’t equate to best candidate. That’s why we have interviews and don’t just hire people based off of résumé.

Jocko*

First of all, that’s not on the airlines, that’s on the FAA (government). Second, going on our little Covid vacation has now made reality rear it’s head, again. All of the experienced controllers got put onto early retirement, leaving a giant experience vacuum for air traffic controllers, with no immediate replacement for them once the industry recovered. Everywhere around the US ATC centres are having their problems with staffing, at any given time. That’s not to say they don’t need to dismiss ESG scoring from their criteria but, that won’t happen as long as Biden remains president.

@@mikemontgomery2654 Damn, what a well written post. As a conservative fed working for a 3 letter government agency I will tell you you are spot on sir. Not that it matters but we still have about 1/4 of our people that have not been back to work since 3/18/20. It's absurd, wrong and no different than theft.

@@markwhite6782 Thank you. Your last sentence is also on point.

I dont disagree with the premise of what you're trying to say but if the story you just mentioned actually occurred, it is impossible due to the checks and balances of the ATC system for someone to cause an accident by walking away from their station. You dont think a controller has ever just gotten up and run off because they were vomiting or had diahrea or etc etc etc? Cmon man. Theres also the fact that your name is king jong poon.

I'm glad I quit flying.

how about you join

@@frankieramos8017 Ramos you have a strong turd vibe. How about you drop?

@@dejuren1367 In the gas chamber ff

In the view of this rainbow apocalypse they try however they can to keep the military going. God forbid you reject a delicate flower on the reason of being a delicate flower. At least reject him/they/zing/ping/ding on reasons of physical health if mental illnesses have now to be respected.

Assuming there is more potential candidates than the need to recruit, you want to screen the recruits before you put them through extremely expensive training just to find they have a medical problem that will make the entire investment go to waste. So this absolutely makes sense IMO. 80 years ago you just needed to carry a bunch of stuff on you and point a rifle on a target. Nowadays you need to learn a bunch of complicated technology and procedures and this makes the training orders of magnitude more expensive.

That's exactly Chris's point. And somehow this has turned into a woke discussion. Wtf mate. People should be screened by whether or not they can listen to someone speaking to them. If they pass the medicals, great. But if they can't listen, who gives a fuck how medically sound they are?

BS. Go to any gym and 90% of people will qualify. Go to any all-you-can-eat buffet and 90% of people will not. Choose your priorities and stop complaining

Yeah, your average GI doesn't need to have perfect health, especially since very few even see much combat right now. I get being crazy stringent with specialized regiments and companies, but an 11B can have glaucoma just fine I think.

Agree he looks like one of the Village People. Chris a good-looking fellow...does not need a gimmick.

@@sprezzatura8755 But shaving takes time - it zukz..

Well we did that a long time ago when only white males who owned land could run for office. We also tried literacy tests. I think we all know the result. Only a small handful of people want to turn the clock back to 1830.

Agreed. People should not be putting their lives at risk for those who are using them as a chess piece in the greater game of corruption and influence.

We do have standards. It’s call system of checks and balances. Get to classroom, learn about Western way of life and political system

@@DimitriTheBarbarian I mean standards for individuals that hold office. Checks and balances don't work if those doing the checking and balancing are colluding, corrupt and/or incompetent? ..And I think I know more than enough about this way of life and it's systems. I've been meeting and surpassing the standards of service for more than a decade.

@@RichWitGame you only can do so much against human nature. We set up system of checks and balances but we also have flaws (it’s called being human). The only alternative is dictatorship which is much worse

As if every member of a conscript army in ww3 is gonna be a navy seal 🤣🤣🤣🤣

A draft and the idea of mandatory military service is an entirely separate subject from what they're talking about. Standards go out the window when people start getting drafted. It was seen in World War II, it was seen in Vietnam and you see it in SOME countries today where military service is mandatory.

@@JR-ju3kj A lot think it should be mandatory in the U.S. as well and while I wouldn't be afraid to do it, since I've already thought long and hard about USAF Para Rescue, it shouldn't ever be forced or 'mandatory'. The reason SK and other smaller countries have mandatory service is because they have much smaller armies and military. That's the real reason why. We, the U.S., still have a decent number of enlisted in all branches.

weird way to flex. you can't go off by saying men are strictly responsible for their physicality; when human beings living in an artificial consumer based society that prioritizes comfort and safety over strength and resilience. thats why men are weak, thats why women are entitled and crazy; because the society isnt exactly a society, because to say its a society would mean that there is a wholeness and community to the people being described, and that people care for each other and work for each other, which is not at all whats happening here, instead its a bunch of people surviving by themselves, loosely connected to their distant and ambigious neighbours, within the monumental system that has us imprisoned here working for the monopolized corporate system that we all are stuck relying upon. we live in a world that constantly shoves ads down your throat and feeds you absolute trash. there is no independence and responsibility there is only victims of an enormous system that has no mercy. now if people got together, and tried to create something outside of this prison of a system, that would pose a threat to the authority that has current control over us. if we were an actual society, we would live as one big family, rather then a bunch of isolated tiny families all loosely connected only because of their reliance and enslavement by the current environment we live in.

@@cslantz4020 That somebody would say that doing 25k steps a day and running every other day is "flexing" is exactly my point. It is not flexing, it should be minimum of what is expected from a male my age. Social norms are changing but health is immutable, separate from society and culture. Humans are not built to be sedentary, hunched over shining rectangles and putting highly processed food into our stomachs all day. And this is objective truth regardless of what the societal norms are at the moment.

@@leonardmilcin7798 health is apart of culture, as much as you want to virtue signal in a period of your life where you are taking advantage of opportunities to have a healthy life style, most people are stuck in this system that berates them for not "trying hard enough" ignoring personal circumstance and the hard truthes about an unequal system. i get the feeling you are the kind of guy that likes to tell people to "just do it", in the sense that you expect others to have an extreme motivation towards things you find as individual responsibility, correct me if im wrong of course, but i am not talking about societal norms, you seemed to misunderstand me. I am talking about how this Western world we live in is highly artifical and not communable. and that to blame people for not living to your expectations is a result of selfish blindness and the inability to empathize and see other peoples perspectives. Not everyone is able to be extreme in their health, because this system pushes a different priority, which is to work a job that takes up the majority of your time, and then to spend the rest of your free time focusing on healthy choices, which is infact a naive outlook, and not the truth. In reality people instead look to comfort because we are suffocated in it. Look around, theres Mcdonalds ads, Uber eats ads, etc, in a different environment a society would naturally be healthy, as was the case in Ww2 leading up to Vietnam. But this environment puts you in work, that may for any number of reasons will demotivate and demoralize people, who after a long day at work want to relax, and spend their money on short term comforts, be it drugs, video games, movies, junk food. That is a part to the reason why we as a nation are unhealthy, and of course not the whole. It is not a case of "health being seperate from the society", because as I have pointed out, it very much is. An unhealthy consumerist society that a powerful force of corporations nurtures for the benefit of the few and to everyone elses detriment. Health is apart of the society, because the way the system is structured by definition interacts, invades and imposes on peoples personal health. Think of the drug companies, the pill pushers, the criminalization of natural medicines such as marijuana, psilocybin mushrooms.

@cslantz damn, I dont think I've ever heard that point of view so beautifully summarized. The Wachowskis or even Anonymous couldn't have said it better themselves

@@cslantz4020 Excellent post. I agree with much of what you've said. However, at the same time, with gyms and exercise equipment so available, and with information on exercise and nutrition so easy to obtain on the internet, organizing and planning an fitness plan is easier today than it has ever been in history.

A civilization that values weakness over strength, is a civilization with a limited lifespan

Jim Morrison told army he was homosexual to get out of Vietnam because he was classed 1-A. It worked. People been trying to get out of the army is nothing new.

@@vanessac1721 Now you say it to get in lol

Any time they agree with a fake persons bullshit they get paid for it. So I can see plenty of people smiling and nodding to the bank Docs are not supposed to get kick backs but they do.

Yeah espcially woth mental health issues, you got diagnosed with depression at 15 congrats now you're depressed for life. Shit is retarded man.

It's all relative and a matter of perspective. Because here's the truth - your hardest, most painful experiences in the U.S. military is like a vacation day for many citizens in North Korea. Read Yeonmi Park's book. Life in North Korea is about constant worry about starving; it's about constantly being exposed to freezing temperatures; it's about constantly being paranoid that someone is watching you or listening in on your conversations. It's about a constant worry that even your best friend or a loved one will turn you in to the government just because you're watching a movie from South Korea or listening to the wrong radio station. And you will be thrown in prison and made to serve years of hard labor just because you said or did something very minor. Go to prison, and it's about rape, torture, and death. Think about escaping? It's about rape, torture, death. After escaping from North Korea and coming to the United States, Yeonmi Park volunteered in a U.S. homeless shelter. She said she was amazed at how lucky homeless people in the U.S. were. She said, they had cots to sleep on, food to eat, refrigerators, etc. They had freedom. They could come and go as they pleased. Yet she said, "Many people still seemed unhappy about being there. This baffled me."

So you're a cop? Thanks for your service toughguy

*donned lmao

I doubt it was that bad 🤣🤣🤣

@@sherman4970 okay well it was more like hell day LOL

Military is down bad if they’re doing waivers for felons got dam what type of crime can you get away with to get a waiver 😂

@@Kizz217 The military use to let ppl on the verge or getting sentenced to murder they would be court ordered to join the military or go to prison this isn’t new

Your dealing with the government they can do anything

The Marines did a study within the last couple years. It showed that 70% of current High school students are intelligible because they are too fat.

13yr USAF vet here. First, your son is someone to be proud of. WE NEED men like him in our world! Second, it’s BS how he is being ignored. His sacrifice MEANT something and he should be taken care of for it. Third, the military can be extremely stupid and very mistaken in how they train. When the human element is involved, we can fail in how we train people. Doing something just to push for the sake of pushing is stupid. Training needs a fundamental reason and it sometimes is lost and goes too far because of the human element. I hope your son gets all that he sacrificed for. He deserves it. I was a pilot and knowing a PJ would come rescue me at the risk to his life meant something to me. It’s still does. And more importantly, my nephew is in the USAF PJ training pipeline now. PJ training is THE hardest military training in the world! Longest and most difficult. There is ZERO to be shameful that your son didn’t make it. He is more a warrior than most of the people wearing a uniform today. I hope he fully physically recovers from his injuries. I sleep well knowing there are men like him and you as “my neighbors” in our country.

The thing is, with the PJs, the training is not far off from what the Navy Seals and Marines put their soldiers through. It's in the applications. It's in the way they teach their soldiers. How walk and talk and act and take basic orders, that's what basic training is all about, but it's that advanced training for Para Rescue. That's where you get the weak out. That was me thinking about doing that and my dad's brother, uncle, was in as a Para Rescue, did well over 120 missions in the late 90s and early 2000s, and he told me straight up, "Zayne, go to school, go focus on getting a job and writing your stories. Focus on crafting your stories on your own pace. So you don't get messed up for the rest of your life like me." Of course, he said he loved what he did, and if I had reservations about being a PJ, it would never actually come true. He never regretted going in and doing what he did for those 7 years he was in, but he even said that it's not what's going to make you happy. He also explained, "You're going through hours, days, possibly weeks and months, some don't see deployment as PJs for 3-4 years because they're training all the time to get ready. It's of course going to take a toll, but there is a reason their are medics around. There's a reason the dropout rate is so high. It's because on the FEW that CAN make it DO make.

@@timeatak5248 Thank you Sir for your service. In the end he has some unreal training stories and has a few friends that are living that peacetime PJ life an man it is a good one!. The most important thing to me as his father is he suffered no mental trauma like so many special forces do, time can help heal his busted up body but man those mental scars are way tougher. HUGE respect to the man and women who jump into this career field knowing what may come.

@@zaynes5094 Well said. Apparently it much different now-way more PJs being made. Are they as gnarly as guys like your uncle?, no way i would know but my son and i have heard theres less of those real bad-asses now, but hey much respect from me im just a civilian i truly appreciate all our military.

Playing Devil's Advocate: having public standards will get everyone to over-optimize specific properties at the cost of other properties... which the evaluator might not have thought of as requirements. A little like companies striving for profitability... by firing employees... and leading everyone into a hustle-burnout culture... right up to the point where the company's reputation tanks and receives no more application to recover from impossible churn rates (aka what Amazon managers are currently warning about, regarding an incoming lack of new employees to hire for its warehouses). (extremely exaggerated) Example for the military: - imagine a requirements sheet over-emphasizing fitness and gun knowledge. EVERYONE does that... and then years down the line... you realize that your new soldiers didn't even bother to upkeep basic reading skills. Now you have an army of soldiers that can't be promoted nor able to communicate properly.

you need to have the ability to adapt to your circumstances.

@@themore-you-know Yes, but no one said they have to limit their standards to only a few things. They HAVE standards, so obviously there's a limited number of things they look at. They just don't say what it is or why, and they don't give candidates feedback, making it impossible to prepare or improve. This naturally presents them with candidates who are not as good as they otherwise could be, which is the opposite of what the military needs. It's just an exercise in gate-keeping, as the guys who make it will assume that the system that selected them is the best system and doesn't need to be improved upon.

@@gardnert1, although you have sensible points, you did not address the ones I brought up.

I think the instructors have one prime directive. Get rid of the quitters. Maybe they need to work on finding the ones who would rather die than quit and step in.

Maybe you should've just reported them. I may not have been military, but I do know quite a few that are/were military and did tell me plenty of stories like this happening, however, their is also a chain of command and hierarchy is real in the military. ANY military. It's not that it's covered up like you say, it's more or less because nobody else will lose their spots or jobs just because of a little SH. Maybe you just didn't want to do it anymore. It's okay. It's not for everyone. I know I'm soft, but I am not weak-willed or weak-minded. I very unselfishly could've become a USAF Para Rescueman. However, My uncle, after being Para rescue for over 8 years in the 90s, told me not to do it if I wasn't dead serious about it. So I chose a safer, yet no less stressful field, college.

Report it to whom, IG? Who do you think was prosecuting me? Thankfully my Captain decided to drop the art 15 because they didn't want to embarrass the unit because it would've been me and a counterclaim with the photographic evidence and eyewitness testimony of the other soldiers who saw their NCO endanger their soldiers and their mission... No, I was given a soft landing, but the LAST people I'd have gone to was my chain of command.

What do you mean by specialized career paths?

For certain missions you need trained specialists.