SF cuts Q to 26 weeks

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I wasn't SF, but when I was in the Navy and attached to Marine Recon, we worked with them, a lot. And I have some buddies who are still in or were in, so I follow this stuff.

https://specialoperations.com/33732/changes-are-coming-for-the-special-forces-qualification-course/

https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/9x59b0/whoever_said_the_pipeline_for_sf_is_changing_may/

@Combat Diver , I think you are the only card-carrying man with cajones big enough to wear the silly Girl Scout hat. @Crazy Carl is a red-headed step-brother. Thoughts??
 
You can not mass produce special operations soldiers. I've heard grumbling about reduced standards at the schoolhouse. I'm sure that CD & the one or two other FAGs here have much better intel on the subject.

I don't like it. It's going to get more than team mates killed & weakens our already stretched thin special ops capability.
 
A friend (19 yrs SF) runs a sniper training course for multiple departments (army, navy, marines, Air Force), he recently stated they’re having the largest wash out percentage he’s ever seen.
 
I just spoke to a friend who is a 18D, at Bragg now teaching MFF. His take, and paraphrasing: eliminating dead time...moving essential MOS skills throughout phases...eliminating gaps between phases. He doesn't think that overall it's a bad thing, but he does think the changes to SUT are bad, especially for 18X and non-infantry MOSs. @Pink_Vapor , I asked him about the attrition, he said it's about the same as it has been. Also, according my buddy, groups are starting their own 'green platoon' so incoming graduates can be on the same sheet of music when they get to their ODAs. He said that onus is being shifted to ODAs to 'raise' new guys, and he does think that is a bad idea.

I understand the Q is always evolving and changing, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. I will be curious to see what the product is.

I know when the Marines stood up MARSOC, they wanted all the training up front, because in Recon it's piecemeal after BRC/ARC/whatever it's called now. NSW went that way when they stood up SQT and took it away from the coast groups S3 shops.
 
Got to lower the standards so the fat girls can get in!
 
I’ve been out now for about 6 years, but I still keep and eye on what’s going on and it the same everywhere that females are integrated into combat units. Combat effectiveness goes to shit. More sick lame and lazy, more hurt, can’t meet the standards but we’re still keeping them cause it’s the program! Females have a place in the military but it’s not in combat arms units! Period! They aren’t built to do the things that men are, lugging a 90 pound ruck up a mountain, walking all day in a swamp up to your ass is bad for the girly parts! So is carrying 100 pound artillery shells ! They can’t do it on a sustainable basis. But the Congress critters of the female persuasion say they can. What the hell do they know!? What do you think they’ll do to a SPECOPs unit? Bad enough that today’s guys are washing out!
 
Chicks in combat arms units have the potential to be PITAs, especially with the different physical standards. I'm okay with if they meet the male standards & continue to maintain them, but if they fail to maintain or play the preggo card when deployment orders drop, then kick 'em back down to their original MOS or just put 'em out. Some give the rest a bad name, but one of the best NCOs I ever worked (& one of the best JMs to toss me out of a bird) was a chick & I've worked with more than a few that were harder than woodpecker lips.

Don't know how 160th SOAR does it, but there a good number of women in PSYOP, Civil Affairs & the various SOF support units. Not unusual to see chicks assigned to SF Battalions in staff positions either, especially when their spouse is a team guy.
 
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