Deployed Soldiers Thinking of SFAS

[The Reaper]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL SOLDIERS DEPLOYED TO OPERATION IRAQ FREDOM AND OPERATION ENDURING FREDOM

1. GET COPY OF YOUR ERB (DOES NOT NEED CERTIFIED)

2. START A SPECIAL FORCES PHYSICAL (WHILE DEPLOYED)

3. TAKE AN APFT (GRADED IN 17-21 AGE GROUP)

4. FILL OUT A VOLUNTEER STATEMENT (PAGE 3-5 USAREC PAM 601-25 SPECIAL FORCES RECRUITING PROGRAM)

5. FAX ANY PAPERWORK TO THE SPECIAL FORCES RECRUITING TEAM THAT COVERS YOUR HOME POST (LIST OF ALL RECRUITING TEAMS ENCLOSED)

6. START TRAINING WITH THE 5 WEEK PHYSICAL TRAINING HANDBOOK. (DO AS MUCH AS YOU CAN WHILE DEPLOYED)

NOTE

WITH THE INCREASED OP-TEMPO FOR THE ARMY IN SUPPORT OF OIF AND OEF YOU WILL NEED TO BE PROACTIVE AND ATTEMPT TO COMPLETE YOUR APPLICATION WHILE DEPLOYED. YOUR COMMANDER MAY EVEN AUTHORIZE YOU TO ATTEND SFAS BEFORE YOUR UNIT IS SCHEDULED TO REDEPLOY. IF YOU ARE AUTHORIZED TO ATTEND, SEND ALL YOUR PAPERWORK TO THE SPECIAL FORCES RECRUITING TEAM THAT COVERS YOUR POST, STAY IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH THE RECRUITERS. UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR ORDERS WILL READ: FROM (YOUR HOME STATION) TO (FT BRAGG, NC) AND RETURN. YOU WILL HAVE TO ARRANGE TRANSPORTATION FROM YOUR DEPLOYED AREA TO YOUR HOME STATION BEFORE SFAS, AND FROM HOME STATION BACK TO YOUR DEPLOYED AREA AFTER SFAS.

[Razor]

I have a question for you, SFG. Since the APFT standards changed back in the mid to late 90s, why is the 17-21 age group still the performance standard, as that is not the age group requiring the greatest number of repetitions of the exercises?

[The Reaper]

Tradition. What else? Like everything else in the military.

Probably age norming, to keep the kiddies from having to do any better. The couch potatos of the current generation need the edge, trust me.

I will ask sometime.