Me wathcing this knowing very well I will never be within 100 years of being in special forces selection

I was taught "Operator" refers to SF ect... Operatives refers to CIA and intel folks.

Whatever You Do Just Do Not Look Down. Just Look Up And See Where You Place Your Hands!!! 💯💯

I hated the Nasty Nick think I would rather get kicked in the nuts

in american spec ops, the term originates with SF. therefore, it can't be limited to delta or team 6 because it was used for SF in 1959 (if not earlier), before a delta and before there were SEALs let alone team 6... check out the pic below en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces#/media/File:Code_of_the_Special_Forces_Operator.jpg en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces Also if you are doing operations shouldn't the term operator fit??

I'm not sure about task Force Orange or 24 STS for 3rd 🧐🤔 that's a hard call

SO when I was in SWC (18D instructor) I had cadre out in selection who were fucking idiots. I rotated out to selection as a medic/guest instructor.. I had to pull cadre off to the side of events and mentor/counsel them...they were pulling some stupid shit with students that wasn't in their wheelhouse.. I would simply ask if what they told students to do was part of the curriculum (I already knew the answer was no) then I would tell them to get refocused on the event and not some vendetta/sadism or whatever it was...or we can talk to the senior cadre leader and then SGM. It doesn't matter to me.. Same as 18D cadre were also keepers of the Tab..Did they meet the standard set forth...not trying to fuck over students with some admin bullshit..if the student is a screw up it will show up...

I remember a candidate fell from the top of the rope climb and the cadre said “ Candidate you failed to negotiate this obstacle would you like to renegotiate this obstacle”…. When you’re waiting in line, you have to have your back turned not watching the candidate in front of you so from just hearing him fall and Cadre’s response was like damn. The one thing that got me through selection was no matter how tough it was at the “Sand Babies”(My Cadre had the smallest hands, and if you know anything about this obstacle it sucked to be me) or carrying the Jeep I always told myself “IT CAN’T LAST FOREVER”…. Outcome = SELECTED Class 9-11 (June 2011)

The men involved were two SEALs, Petty Officer Anthony E. DeDolph and Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews, along with two US Marine Corps Raiders, Gunnery Sgt. Mario Madera-Rodriguez and Staff Sgt. Kevin Maxwell Jr.,

Hey wanna get dropped, tell the instructors they are unprofessional and you’re offended

Dude says MARSOC #10 because they are a new force, like raiders and force recon haven't been around longer than 2006...

I served as a ranger and I respect everyone in the special operations community. For me personally I don’t think anyone should use it. It’s a dumbass term that’s been thrown around way too much. At this point it holds no meaning. In my experience I’ve never heard anyone call a special operations personnel or a SMU member an “operator” in technicality it’s simply not a thing. It’s ridiculous that this is even up for debate. If we’re going to be quiet professionals let’s talk as such and walk the walk. Debates like this are for the birds.

bro you need Jake back to take shop for 3 more hrs

that's ridickiless

ill let you borrow my trident but you have to call me sir

What's weird is how you still have any faith or patriotism in the country you fought so hard to help destroy and then a believe you're the good guys deep down

Patriotism is Stockholm syndrome

You guys are such tools it's sad...

so fucking crazy.

1:11 zweig nugget of wisdom

Similar situation with a guy in our unit that was all beach muscles. I guess he had a whole lot to live for. I was going throygh a divorce, so the deployment was a vacation.

Military or civilian, anyone that works within a Special Operations unit, such as Bortac, HRT, or any other special unit is considered a "Special Operator". Its literally in the name, Special Operations.

The Activity is the group that gets it done.

Where would SARCs land?

it does only take 8 weeks to complete rasp so i do kinda agree it’s the easiest to get into

My father CSM Raymond D Burbank was with 3rd group, fighting in the Dominican Republic, 1965 (Ft Bragg) Go 3rd Grp!!!❤️💪🏻🙏🏻

12N the real operators🍺 Essayons

Absolutely incredible discussion, candor, and job by you all. Thank you! Deming was exactly the same as a BUD/S class LPO, same integrity and standard bearing today as he had back then. Well done. Apologies to you Marines. 🫡

Your view on this makes sense and I agree with you, but in my experience the instructors who are terrible if you speak to them about it, they will make it worse for you during the course

My advice to him. Keep that shit to yourself. Do the work. Exceed the standard. Be a good teammate. If you just limit your focus to that, you will be fine. Fck whoever and whatever you want on your free time

A lot of 1st group guys are super smart and nerdy from my experience but don't let that fool you.

You don't need to be big and buff to be in the special forces, you just need to have a small penis. That's why I wasn't accepted. 😂😂

You wanna find a terrorist...look at yourself in the mirror...

One tool. It’s you.

In the late 1950s SF qualified personnel adopted the moniker "operator" and voluntarily signed the "Code of the Special Forces Operator". This code was signed by inlisted and officer ranks. Line 6 of that code reads "I realize that it is my responsibility as a Special Forces Operator to undergo more intense and more rugged training than is required of the average soldier of the United States Army". There was no Delta force at the time of this document. Green Berets have every right to call themselves "operators".

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International Union of Operating Engineers is gonna have a field day with this. 😂

Who cares dude, you can’t even do a fckn pull up!😆

Learn to follow ridgelines at night by developing a sense for terrain feature relief by feel. You will be surprised by how sensitive an instrument your body. Thia ia going to sound like I'm a nutjob, but if your hearing is still intact and you're still in your 20s, you can learn a rudimentary form of echolocation if you haven't already fucked your hearing. Cauliflower ear also ruins your ability to learn or do this, too, so if you do BJJ, judo or wrestler. There is actually an entire ouevre of night time soldiering skills that small little pockets of the US military had and have managed to preserve and conserve over the decades and in spirit, centuries all the way back to Roger's Rangers in the French and Indian Wars, but I fear that a lot of that's been lost in the modern era of NODs. I hear from modern soldiers about how they were on or on movement to target, or just roped down onto the LZ and find themselves being stared at by some Afghani goatherder, "like he knews exactly where we are." No, Ranger, it's not "like" he knew where you were, he DID know where you were, just like how I'd have known - I can hear those damned NODs (those old ones were loud as fuck, but most people, especially the senior soldiers /NCOs and engineers who work in those officers are older and/or have hearing loss so it didn't occur to them that these things were emitting noise that was "beyond the range of human hearing" that many young people could hear, but anyway, I digress but I'm old so fuck you.) Okay, I came into the Army (in a way, I was always in the Army) when everyone was getting NODs, not just the high speed units. But I was just as good in many conditions without them and I'd have soldiers askig me, "Hey LT, how do you do that?" "Do what?" "That jedi ninja shit." "I use the Force, private." Then I'd tell them, I grew up on OCONUS Army posts during the Cold War, pretty much every male authority figure (aka every male) I ever saw or knew was a Vietnam vet/recondo/Ranger/Green Beret. Every Scoutmaster, every coach for every activity, veteran or currently serving soldier. As kids, if we were caught playing with fire or fireworks or ant mounts, we were more likely to be shown how to play with fire, pyrotechnics, stinging and biting insects aninals safely. "Tell you what, if you want to learn, see who else is interested, tell your TL/SL and have them bring it up next time we are planning training. That sound good to you?" "Roger that." "May the Forcc be with you."

SERE appears to be an opportunity for The USAF to get some payback for all the SCAT thrown at the Air Force by the Army

Never put it down never ever ever put it down