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post 1694508743 12-07-2023, 09:09 AM
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Do you think you would have made a good Navy SEAL ?

I never tried out for BUDs I would probably have been kick ass at it though
post 1694508793 12-07-2023, 09:10 AM
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No because I can't run for ****.
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post 1694509303 12-07-2023, 09:24 AM
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I've always wondered this

The chit that would get me is the water training, intentionally getting drowned etc, being in the cold, intentionally getting hypothermia, no sleep on hell week for 5 days?

Most everything else I know I could do

Chances of injury from overuse are high too

I honestly dunno so I'd say probably not at my age now, maybe when I was 10 years younger
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post 1694509353 12-07-2023, 09:25 AM
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No. F*ck no I'm a pussy. Straight up not even gonna lie

I'm also built for aesthetics and not at all for performance
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post 1694509383 12-07-2023, 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted By elterrible987⏩
I never tried out for BUDs I would probably have been kick ass at it though
Were you ever in the military? Can't say you've never tried out for BUDs if you couldn't even pass a MEPS physical.

As for me, nah, I'm average at absolutely everything. I could maybe do nightstalker support, but even then, that's a big ass maybe.
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post 1694509463 12-07-2023, 09:26 AM
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
I'm a good athlete all around and have good endurance, I never run and am bloatmaxxed RN but know for sure I could still run a sub 7 minute mile on whim anytime I want.

However, good endurance is not great endurance. At the end of the day, I'm skewed towards strength and am a big guy even though miscers call me a twink. I can't compete with 150lb guys who are built for endurance because that's what the military favors.
As someone who has actually served, you wouldn't have made it. The military and it's training is 90% mental, and you don't have the heart for it. Also you're a twink.
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post 1694509553 12-07-2023, 09:28 AM
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No lol. I like being pushed, but not like that. Plus putting my life on the line for gov't & shareholder interests? lol This aint the 80's boyo. Patriotism is dead.
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post 1694509613 12-07-2023, 09:29 AM
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Nope
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post 1694509813 12-07-2023, 09:33 AM
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Not a chance. I am a terrible swimmer and I am susceptible to the cold.

Highest tier I could reasonably pass is Ranger school in the latespring - early fall.
post 1694509873 12-07-2023, 09:33 AM
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No.

I was a poor athlete until muy 40's plus I had a bad attitude and didnt stick with anything.

About the complete opposite of what they want.
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post 1694510103 12-07-2023, 09:37 AM
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Of course any man would like to believe they could.


I have been friends with many people in the special operations forces community in the Air Force and Army, however never Navy SEALS.

A Combat Controller buddy of mine told me I could easily make it through their pipeline. We met in boot camp and I helped him really push himself there. Later on, after he completed the pipeline, he said the small chit I did in boot camp for him helped him greatly, and I would have easily made it, and helped others make it as well.

After going to flight school, I met a few warrant officers in the 160th. They told me I wouldn’t have a problem getting in there.


I haven’t really been tested enough to say with confidence. SERE was mentally and emotionally stressful but doable for sure.

I am nothing special at all. In my current state of existence I absolutely could not. I am not healthy mentally or physically. I would be a liability.

Once upon a time, it seems I could have.
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post 1694510323 12-07-2023, 09:42 AM
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Nope, don’t think I could ever really take a life.
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post 1694510383 12-07-2023, 09:44 AM
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Hell no, our company was training on the other side of the island from where they were and the water was unbearable. I hated my life that whole month of training.
post 1694510403 12-07-2023, 09:44 AM
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The chances of making it are incredibly small.

That said, I think I might have had at best a 5% chance back when I was out of high school and early college. I played a lot of sports and was already borderline brainwashed to not know how to quit when it came to physical training. Our coaches would run us until we threw up. Guys would chit themselves during long distance PT. I remember getting tunnel vision and almost blacking out pretty regularly during conditioning. Lots of guys got major injuries from being pushed to their limits.

Not sure how much of that that would translate to making SEALs, but I look at my mindset then compared to now and it really did seem like I was brainwashed into not quitting. If I carried that mindset back then into training I might have at least a small shot at making it.
post 1694510743 12-07-2023, 09:54 AM
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I'm an elite athlete, but not so good at giving up my own life/thoughts/dream to blindly take orders.
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post 1694511123 12-07-2023, 10:03 AM
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I would've nope out at the mere mention of hell week. No thanks, Jeff.
post 1694511213 12-07-2023, 10:05 AM
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Well I'm 42 years old. So definitely not now, but I feel like I might have been a good candidate at the right age (22-25). The problem is my tolerance for cold water went away right around that age. I don't know why, but I have the hardest time adjusting to my skin hitting cold water now. So phuck that. Otherwise I think mentally and physically I might've been able to do it.
post 1694512203 12-07-2023, 10:27 AM
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Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
As someone who has actually served, you wouldn't have made it.The military and it's training is 90% mental, and you don't have the heart for it.
Howdy G....

There's some truth to that statement.
One has to have the perseverance, mental focus and not doubt the self.

Me....with respect to the thread title?
I don't know.
But, if I was able to get through what I survived I wouldn't doubt myself and I would strive to set the most impeccable example of determination possible among my fellow participants.

Those MOS's are a young man's game.

Back to it.
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post 1694512243 12-07-2023, 10:28 AM
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No because I refuse to be a government pin cushion
post 1694512323 12-07-2023, 10:31 AM
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I actually think OP would have been a Navy SEAL had he not spent the last decade LARPing as a woman on a gay Indian bodybuilding forum.

He has the discipline necessary, but it's a shame he focused that discipline towards an endeavor that doesn't yield any appreciable returns.
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post 1694512683 12-07-2023, 10:38 AM
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post 1694512783 12-07-2023, 10:40 AM
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anyone can be a Navy Seal Pussy....real men try the SAS
post 1694513093 12-07-2023, 10:44 AM
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
It blows my mind how far from the truth all your posts are. It's not that you're crazy and delusional and actually believe the chit you say, you're just a liar and bullchitter and know you're full of chit and say it anyway.

You also talk about how you're such a good man and morally superior to the rest of us so how come you're never good for your word and never do what you say you'll do? You always insist that you look like you lift and said you would post pictures in June and it's December now. Another JFL is your claim of 3 pullups which would be trivial for anyone else but doubtful for you given how fat you are, that would be the easiest claim in the world to prove but you haven't even done that.

The main point I wanted to make is you talking about heart. Getting bodybuilding show level shredded is hard. But simply not being morbidly obese is easy AF, just don't eat so much. But you don't even have the discipline for that. And you talk about heart, JFL.
Clearly I have hurt you, and for that I am sorry. That said, you can prove me wrong today by going to your local recruiting office and joining any service. But you won't. Mommy's house is just too comfortable.

Just today I had a gentleman approached me asking me how did I get my arms so big and how much do I work out, and I was wearing a hoodie to boot. I'm bigger than you, and while I may not be leaner, that's not saying much considering you're 160lbs and have 18" shoulders.

I am not gonna post nudes for you.
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Nope. Not at all my heart would not have been in it
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No. I did enough water survival training to know I couldn’t do much more.
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100% ez

prolly would have been one of the best
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I've seen the BUDS class 234 documentary like 100 times back in 2010 and almost enlisted srs. Back then i think id have passed through.
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Back in my hayday, I'm not sure. I'd say physically I probably could handle most of it. Not the best at any one thing, but solid middle of the pack on most/all. But the mental aspect? I'm not sure I would've had to drive to mentally power through. And just me saying that... if I'm not sure I have it, I don't have it.
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post 1694520723 12-07-2023, 01:06 PM
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Maybe. I barely reach the height requirement.

Nvm there is no height req. I thought it was 5’6
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