![]() Special Forces engineer sergeants: specialists in a wide range of disciplines such as construction, demolition and topographic surveys.Special Forces weapons sergeants: capable of using a wide variety of light/heavy infantry weapons and tactics.Your specialty will be decided on your background, aptitude and the needs of the Army: There are four entrylevel Special Forces Military Occupational Specialties.But they must complete and endure the extensive mental/physical training in order to join the Army elite. In hindsight, that is my biggest regret, but you know what they say about hindsight.īrandon is an Operations Supervisor in Portland, Oregon, working towards his MBA.Special Forces candidates are given the opportunity to become a member of one of the most highly skilled combat forces in the world. Give it everything, or don’t give it anything. If there is one thing to take away from this whole situation it’s this, if you want to accomplish anything great, you must have a single-minded passion. Where would I be right now? What would have I accomplished? What kind of man would I be? I think about that decision every single day. That’s always a possibility, but the ache that comes from failure is nothing compared to the agony that comes from never even trying. ![]() In my “if I had to do it all over again” fantasies, I would have taken that 18 X-ray active duty contract and never looked back. Now, here I sit, looking into my screen, a thirty-seven-year-old out of shape never-was, but by God, I got that degree. I joined the National Guard, served 8 unspectacular years in a conventional unit, got my college degree, and got out at thirty-six years old having never once even tried to attend a Special Forces Readiness Evaluation. National Guard Special Forces! Where have you been all my life? I could finish school and tryout for the Green Berets. Thinking I had no other alternative, I was ready to just bite the bullet, take the 18 X-ray contract, and do what I had to do, and then, I discovered something that would change everything. ![]() The thought of waiting several more years, until after special forces training was complete, to finish college was gut wrenching for me. Which did I want more? That was the question. I wanted to finish, and I wanted to finish bad. I was twenty-eight years old, at the time, and I had been working, slowly but surely, on my college degree for the better part of a decade. I tried to conjure every ounce of knowledge I could to make an informed decision, but I had one issue. I was given good advice by those that cared, and I was given bad advice by those that didn’t know. I talked to every person I had ever known that had ever been in any branch of the military. I consumed every bit of media available to me. I like to think, I would be a much better person, had the choice gone the other way.Ībout ten years ago, I got it into my head that I wanted to be a Green Beret. A moment where had I chosen differently, I would not be the person I am today. A moment that would have changed everything in my life. When I’m deep in the throes of these fantasy mental masturbation sessions, I find myself circling back to one moment in time. If you’re anything like me, when the chips are down and you’re feeling low, there’s nothing, quite like, a nice game of Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda to give yourself that nice little hit of dopamine to raise the ol’ spirits. So simple to spout and, yet, so hard to live. Look to the future”, I’m sure at some point, in all of our lives, we’ve heard or said this very statement.
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