Special Forces Team Specialties | Former Green Beret 

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funny story: when i was Drill Sergeanting at Ft Jackson (POG central) I had a E-4 prior service dude come through my platoon. he was in Air Force, but turns out he was going through PJ pipeline but didn’t finish because of family reasons. BUT he already had Airborne, SCUBA, and HALO. pretty sure he was the most stacked basic trainee ever.

“Heights are not my thing” “I’m a free fall guy” 😂😂

Life is a special operation talked about SF Combat Diving. He said that if you hack it you're easily in the top 1% of athletes in the world. He also commented saying that the morning PT for that course was some of the most grueling training he underwent.

The absolute best part of this channel and especially the videos in general is they are straight to the point.

My uncle served in the 5th Special Forces Group as a Special Forces Medic in Vietnam and Laos. I remember he used to tell me about some of the training he went through. I’m not sure if it still is true today, but back then SF medics were the only personnel other than actual surgeons to be permitted to perform surgery on the battlefield. He went through this final test where the instructors would take a goat, give it anesthetics, and then inflict a large amount of bodily trauma on it such as blunt force and shooting through the legs and stomach. They would then bring it out and whatever SF medic was testing would have to diagnose the injury’s and then keep it alive for 12 hours, after which they would inflict more trauma on it and then the medic would have to keep it alive for about 8 more hours.

Kevin Owens was in Mobility if you ever get a chance to have him on like you did with Vince

18 D: Mountain team, scout swim team, HALO team. Don't look back. Thanks for the vid. Book pre-ordered.

Former 10th Group 18D here. Love your videos. Keep up the good work.

Just finished your interview with Andy. As recently retired LEO, thank you for saying what we all wished we could.

“Not breathing is terrifying” Amen to that

I was selected by the 7SFG as "Soldier of the Year 1965." The winner received a gold SF ring and the choice of any school he wanted. My CSM was friends with the HALO CSM and there was an opening for the next class and he asked me if I wanted it. I told him I didn't think I had the "kahonies" to HALO into North Vietnam at night and told him they should select someone willing to do that. I took a lot of harassment for turning down the "elite" HALO school. Three years later, I was starting my 3rd Vietnam tour and was with MACVSOG-CCN. We needed a 7-man HALO team for a very dangerous mission in Laos. We could only find 3 volunteers. Back in the States HALO qualified walked around like princes profiling. We heard every excuse know to man why they couldn't volunteer. It wasn't until SMG Billy Waugh took over and "recruited" HALO qualified men that we got the team. My Point: Only take training you are willing to preform in combat!

As a guy who is really thinking of trying out for SF, I appreciate your videos.

I started this then stopped it when I saw the Cleared Hot podcast was up, now I'm back. Sean, that was deep! I think once the book is out, more people will get a better grasp of what made you. 95% of your childhood hit home. It made me take a similar path. You are appreciated Sir! Thank you for all your honesty. P.S. FUCK MOUNTAINS! NEVER AGAIN IS CORRECT! 😂

Hey Buck, I'm currently a Marine doing my second enlistment but hoping to go 18X after the next four years. Just wanted to say that you and Zach's videos keep me motivated when I feel like I'm never gonna get there, so keep it up and thank you bro 💪💪

Can't wait for the book, I've been counting down the days sine Christmas.

Bro you’re doing so good. I remember when you had like 800 subs. Keep this stuff up man!

Sometimes it’s the guys on the team! My first team was an SOT team, which apparently doesn’t exist anymore, and I was super happy to be there. The guys were heroes. I won’t lie though, when the free fall team sergeant asked me if I wanted a job, I had my shit there in about 30 seconds. It’s really hard to miss out when you walk down those hallways and everyone is ten feet tall and bulletproof. What an awesome place to serve. Thanks dude!

First I have never clicked so fast lmao

You're absolutely right. I was assigned to a mountain team out JBLM and they funny thing is they would say the free fall guys a crazy yet some the mountain guys hated climbing. I was older than some of them and I looked up at them.

Hey buck can you speak on the differences between each sf group? Love the vids, thank you for everything you do for all us wannabes

It was always my impression that the MFF teams got their pick of personnel based on the fact that pretty much everyone wanted to go there for the "cool mguy" factor. I was MFF qualified, but I spent almost all of my time on a dive team. I did some climbing/mountaineering training, but I never was good at it. I didn't like it, and as short as I am, it was really difficult for me. I did think the teams in 10th group who did the skiing and snowmobile and snow cave stuff were interesting (even tho I would never want to do it). You should get a 10th group guy on here to talk about that stuff. Mob teams were huge in 5th group after the 1st gulf war, but every 5th group team that went to kuwait in the 90's (everyone pretty much went there every other year) got the full issue of GMV's, dirt bikes, crew served weapons, etc., and once afg kicked off, pretty much every team in SF became "mobility qualified", or at least did the mission. I loved being on a dive team. It was scary and very difficult. In my experience, divers tend to be pretty hard core in everything. People with "the bubble" tend to get more other schools that have nothing to do with diving (if they want them) like Ranger, SFARTEC, SFSC, etc. Its because the leadership knows that if you fail, it won't be because you are a pussy. If I had a non-dive qualed guy on my team, that guy wouldn't get any schools except things like bus driver and -2 until/unless he completed CDQC. I'll be fucked if I send a guy like that to JM or SFSC and he never graduates dive school and gets sent to another team- I just trained up someone else's guy and burned my team's slots to do it. Because I was a qualified diver, I was able to do over 12 years of ODA time. Being a diver makes you more difficult to replace on a team, so if you are a good team member, you will stay there for a LONG time, while people on other teams will be doing the revolving door thing, and end up on the B team, S3, etc. When I left a dive team (the first time, after 6 years) I didn't go to the B team- I went to the scuba locker, where I got more schools and continued to get dive pay, and train in the mission. Like a dive team, not just "anyone" can work at a scuba locker- you need to be dive qualified. Anyone can work at the B team, Bn schools, etc. When you do company deployments OCONUS, the dive team will often find themselves in a coastal area (jn other words, at the beach) teaching amphibious/waterborne ops to the HN forces, instead of living in a tent in the desert or in some crappy jungle or on a mountain top freezing your ass off with the rest of the company. I always advise new guys who are in shape and have the balls and commitment to tell the SGM they want to be a diver, and to be prepared to gut it out and put the work in with 100% commitment.

The hardest part about getting the bubble is wearing it. Seeing the wizard wasn’t fun either.

"we didnt go seals for a reason" straight up the only reason im going 75th

Can you do a break down comparing the SF company and BN structure to what we all know in the regular Army?

Just listened to your Cleared Hot Podcast with Andy Stumpf. Gotta say, looking forward to the book 🤙

Hey Buck, I stumbled across you on youtube. You are great. I appreciate your maturity and caring about helping people,"get selected"!!!!! Loved your book!!!!! Lou

Fresh cut! Awesome info this is something you don't see much about SF pretty much anywhere on the web (as goes with a lot of your shared info!) Keep up the great work dude!

I spent many years on a Dive team. As a team sergeant my dive team was very young. We took many new guys right out of the Q-course willing to try MAC and CDQC.

Great content as always man! Been awesome to see how far your channel has come. Appreciate your honest and humble approach. Be awesome if you could get Nick Lavery on sometime. You two are probably the most humble and real guys I’ve seen.

When I was a Royal Marine commando 🇬🇧we had a few Green Berets come over so we could train them in arctic and mountain warfare , great lads and very squared away 🫡🇺🇸.

Greetings from austria, I was in an alpine mountain squat prior to going sf. It was the worst experience I had but I guess that's why I wanted to give it a try

My thoughts exactly about mountain training. Free fall HALO all day but as soon as I have depth perception my belly does flip flops!! On top of water great, under water NOGO

Hey, any chance on future video, on what’s like to work with foreign special forces? Like Canadian, British, training and doing real missions?💚👍

Flatirons! I’ve flown my paraglider just north of there a few times at Foothills Park. I’ve never climbed there, maybe this summer. Baddest ex-SF climber of all time is Jim Donini.

Excel where you are assigned, regardless of your preference. In combat, you may assigned another worse bad situation sometime you didn't choose, that will need you to excel at it also. How you perform is a demonstration of your character over personal preference.

Hey Buck, I'm big fan. Watching all your videos to learn as much as possible, and this one was especially helpful. I was wondering if you can do more than one specialty, and if there are some training in the intel side of things. Also curious hard is it to get sniper qualified as a new guy coming out of SF training and which MOS is the best for young guys to the teams. Blessings man, Drew

Another informative EXCELLENT video - Rock on!

Hey buck. Thanks for the good insight and motivation!

SEAN, THE MAN, ROGERS!!!!🔥🔥🔥

although i was Vet from the CORPS my partner was a former green beene from the old 7'th group an over educated psycho with the mos 18'bravo and with a wealth of experience and reliability

Hey Buck, are Guard teams set up in the same fashion? With 19th and 20th Groups multiple locations would specialties be more prevalent at different locations? (i.e. more mountain teams in Colorado's 19th Group location vs more dive teams in California?) Thanks for all of the valuable info you put out!

Love the podcast on Cleared Hot!!!! Hopefully more appearances are to come.

Are your strengths and weaknesses taken into consideration when you're assigned to a Team?

Everyone wanted to be on the HALO Team, but they always wanted the veterans! I went straight to 7th Group HQ because I spoke Spanish never got to serve in ODA, the curse of being Tejano! I also hated mountain climbing especially in the dark F#%K That!

1: Mtn 2: Mff 3: Dive 4: Mob Mainly based off of the skills I'd like to retire with/fun.

Just graduated college and finished my OCS application (shipping in march) Your videos have been extremely helpful with determining what route I want to proceed with for the army. I’m planning on becoming an infantry officer and later taking my shot at special forces when I reach captain. I was wondering if you could release a video with collaboration from an SF officer as to what daily life is like compared to enlisted on a team or even behind the desk. The more research I do the less information I find behind what an officer’s actual role is within a team. I know me and a lot of my cadet buddies would find the information useful. Your Channel has been a huge help with planning my life. Or if anyone in the comment section knows a typical “day in the life” for an SF officer that would be awesome. Just trying to see what all it entails. Thanks and gig’em 👍🏼

Following this man from past sometime, he'll certainly motivate me to join my country's reserves 😅

Hey Buck love the channel!! Keep up the great work! Any chance of you and shinobi doing a episode??

Cant wait for the book.

Where does the CRF / CIF Teams fit into the Army Special Forces, of , They no longer exist for Hostage Rescue and CounterTerrorism?

"mobility team" means someone had the bright idea to put a .50 on a dirtbike edit: I am not SF, this is a joke

buck could you make a video talking about what its like for officers in SFAS and the Q course? Do you think you could get a SF officer on? Love your shit, thank you buck!

Here after the Andy podcast, fucking banger bro.

I was one feed tray cover spring on a M60 away from True Blue in foreign and domestic light and weapons. Sad sad day...

Another great video. Can you breakdown the other Group elements? Ex. OD-B, what are the companies' responsibilities and functions, Group Support Battalions etc,.

Was in a LRS detachment, super young NCO, deployed. Was really excited to go to selection after deployment. Under up with a plate in my neck and a medical discharge instead. Was pretty salty about for a long time. I’m old and fat now. I think I’m over it.

Hey man, former weapons and team sergeant of 1235. Great vid and break down. Good for you bro

Always a great video man, any chance you could talk about the support guys to the SF teams, and what the relationship between them the and green berets are? And possibly how those people become support for SF? Thanks.

Does anyone else rewatch pretty much every video from Sean cus I do

Heard you on Cleared Hot, epic story! Keep crushin it!

Single father of two. Thank you.

Love these videos man. Tons of info for guys going to SFAS.

I get the same feeling. Butterflies in my stomach looking down a cliff. But nothing at all free falling.

Great book Sean. Debriefs really helped. About to start my second go through of the book. I enjoy your channel and videos. Best wishes

Same, heights scare the shit outta me but free fall is fun

Awesome coverage. Very informative! Thanks

No way in hell am I going to dive school. Ever since I watched the first video about what they put you through I knew it wasn’t for me.

How often are dive teams utilized in SF? I would think that SEALS and PJs would be the go to for maritime operations.

The Halo team and the Dive team were the two teams to avoid, as they were prone to miss the cool jobs because they had to go to a "Leap Fest" or got "recruited" to go find dead bodies in some harbor somewhere....

Been bing watching all your videos recently and i fucking love the info 💯 my brother is a retired green beret and im about to pull the trigger and join💪🏻

Spent my intire ODA time on a mountain team. Loved every minute of it.

I’m not SF but a friend of brother is and he said they got corvette training

Can wait just pre-ordered, keep kicking ass brother

The book is amazing you have a very inspiring story and i hope one day to be half the man you are! Thank you for your service! 🇺🇸

I thought that all depends on what SF group u are in. I trained with 7th group guys, from Ft.Carson Co. This was at Ft.Polk La, and some of the guys I was talking 2, we're telling me how they would train on skies in Co. But like I said b4, the reason I didn't go 2 selection was because I was scared of the Land nav course, and tryn 2 learn a new language, does every SF guy have 2 learn languages, and isn't every group, 4 a certain area in the world, like 5th group was all over Afghanistan and Iraq.

I’m going to go climb a mountain tomorrow 😂 (but seriously)

Can't wait for the book Buck. My wife asked what I want for my Bday. Think I'll op for a copy. Also...yeah, F that mountain and diving. I'm a sissy when it comes to either one. Halo or mobiliy's guy right here👍But beggars can't be choosers, I'll learn how to hold my breath I guess.

I wish Buck had actually Explained what it was like to work With a Halo team What type of missions did they Have? Did Buck ever Halo jump into Afghanistan?

Lmaoooo I have issues too. That’s why I’m on RU-vid listening at this time haha

You mentioned climbing Flatiron. Where is this? The reason I ask is because we have a Flatiron out here in AZ and its a real bitch to climb.

If I’m not mistaken, there is still a 1st group TF (at least circa 2017 or 2018). You’re right about a paucity of missions for those guys though. If activated they would be onsite until the 500 lb gorilla could get there. 90% of their mission is fly always and training HN national assets.

Can you explain each MOS inside the ODA??? Thanks.

Good afternoon, I appreciated all the videos. Would you be able to do a video on Delta force ? - Marine

Thank you i am finally improving my weakness

Like that T-shirt! Think Lowell Stevens became “caretaker” of Camp MacKall for years after retirement

I love your honesty, thank you.

Buck I saw your video 🎥 in the video 🎥 just now and dude I saw you on the side of the mountain ⛰ and I swear I thought 💭 I saw you holding on for dear life with you back and your buddy standing on the edge fixing rope on his toes like no problem 🙈 my experience was with the 25th Inf didn’t know the mountain ⛰ on top of mountain ⛰ I fell once and nobody caught me al I heard was grab something 😳😬 nice show and tell and bringing back my old days 😂👍✌️👌🇺🇸

I'm working on pushing my boundaries before signing that dotted line. Getting my skydiving class B cert and my open water diving cert in the coming months I want to get a feel of what I could be potentially looking at. And kinda add it to my skill set so that when I'm being look over it can potentially help.

Oooh buck where is the cap worn backwards on this video......lol...atleast i got to see ya hair at the FNG academy Good job helping us get selected.

I live close to the Flat Irons in Boulder,Co. Going up them is 8.11 no joke.

Wow so the teams are modeled a lot after SAS teams then? I didn’t know that. They have Air, Mountain, Boat and Mobility Troops.

Been waiting for this one yesssss

If the mission needs HALO insertion, then mountaineering to get to the target where hostage rescue is to be performed. After hostage acquisition, some team members have to dive to get to friendly ships docked off the coast while others wait with the hostage(s) for extraction by special warfare boat crews. Which "specialised" team do u send for this mission which requires multiple "specialties" to pull off?

Welcome to thunder dome, Climb to Glory!

Its funny you say that about the mountains i was a civilian skydive person freefall no problem rock climbing screw that

Did you free climb the flat irons? I tried last summer and tapped out about half way. Anyways awesome video as always

Walt Shumate, one of the founders of the dive team.

Can someone help me out with the last digit of the oda team system? I get the last number is for the actual team itself, but doesn’t the number equate to the speciality? Like 5 is dive team. I also have seen teams end with the number 6

Are you forced into dive school even if you’re not great in the water?