Best Course You Have Attended?

[AxeMan]

Originally Posted by CDRODA396

Not for what you might think. Both courses are awesome studies of human nature. There is nothing like watching humans interact when broken down to the barest of existence and having to perform. Its amazing what humans will do when faced with a little hunger, sleep deprivation, adverse weather and an evaluators pen! Definately worth going to both, just to watch your fellow man deal with his own "inner challanges."

I bet shrinks wet themselves when they are invited to observe either course.

For me it was Pre-Scuba/ CDQC hands down!

Its amazing what humans will do when faced with certain death by drowning.

DW, I'm with you!

.....MDW

[kgoerz]

Forgot to add:

SFARTEC. The E&I change out as often as commanders. Changed my career path in SF.

Survey Team School in Tampa. Showed me there are other ways to make a living besides blowing stuff up.

[The Old Guy]

1984 SOT

How can anyone have so much fun and get paid to do it?

[zipgunlead]

For the sheer fun of it - Rod Hall's offroad racing school in Reno, NV. Wasn't too long but just for the location and the fun it was great.

zipgunlead

[Demerde-toi]

Le Centre d'Entraînement en Forêt Equatoriale
The Legions Jungle Commando Stage.....
ouch.....but the most enjoyable by far

[CSB]

Somewhat back on point...

The best training for SF demolitions was a full day of C-4, PETN, det cord, and electric/non-electric caps and no formal POI.

We made charges, from shaped (funnels in the bottom of coke cans) to cigarette pack linear shaped charges that would slice cleanly through the staple of a lock with little side blast, to platters, etc. Just a full day for "think up a problem, build the charge, blow it, look it over, do in again better and with less explosive."

We cut steel, shattered wrought iron, pulverized concrete.

We sliced C4 thin with razor knives, tried to see how little we could use to cut, pierce, shape, etc. Sometimes we didn't get a detonation (except for the cap) because we sliced it too thin.

Anyway, at the end of the day we had a command over the subject that we could not have developed had we been under structured adult supervision.

Too late to list a week long school called: "Tactical Tracking Operations" with David Scott-Donelan a few years back?

Either that or "Tripwires & Booby-Traps" school at the state academy? This one still makes me nervous just thinking about it.

[Irishsquid]

Originally Posted by Demerde-toi

Le Centre d'Entraînement en Forêt Equatoriale
The Legions Jungle Commando Stage.....
ouch.....but the most enjoyable by far

Le Centre d'Entraînement Commando en Arta Plage was awesome too.
Legion's Desert Commando Stage. Just about the only formal training I've really enjoyed thus far. I wish I could go back and do it again.

[soldierteacher]

My God there were so many opportunities for the good, the bad(ass), and the ugly.....O&I Course 1982, SOT @ Mott Lake, Gunsite in Arizona, every deployment outside of Bragg with an ODA......we lived what many can only dream of.....what more can you ask for or need........

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by soldierteacher

My God there were so many opportunities for the good, the bad(ass), and the ugly.....O&I Course 1982, SOT @ Mott Lake, Gunsite in Arizona, every deployment outside of Bragg with an ODA......we lived what many can only dream of.....what more can you ask for or need........

You're kidding right?

Nothing compared to graduating 16 weeks of Special Forces Sniper School.

[shadowwalker]

For me hostage negotiation, and SRT. Learned a lot in both and they were both fun.

[trent]

I hate to be the token Newbie with the lame post but seeing as I am an X-ray and have about 4 days in the army I would have to say that the best and only non-pipeline school I have attended would have to be CDQC. The environment and the way they run things there was my first real taste of an all SF ran environment ... It was pretty amazing and the chow hall food was top notch. :-)

[tom kelly]

One of the more interesting schools was the one conducted by the NVA and the VC in the late summer and fall of 1964 in the vicinity of the Ia Drang Valley

[Irishsquid]

Originally Posted by trent

I hate to be the token Newbie with the lame post but seeing as I am an X-ray and have about 4 days in the army I would have to say that the best and only non-pipeline school I have attended would have to be CDQC. The environment and the way they run things there was my first real taste of an all SF ran environment ... It was pretty amazing and the chow hall food was top notch. :-)

Trust me you aren't the only token newbie. I'm not even in the Army yet. 32 days left on my Navy enlistment. I just got lucky enough to work with 20th Group. They definitely hooked me up with some cool shit to do :-)

[ODA 226]

EOD Supervisor's Course 2002
Flaps and Seals Course 1994
SOT 1981
SFQC 1978
Winter Warfare IC 1980