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Quitting gets easier every time you do it. I have seen guys start the course with blisters covering nearly the entire soles of their feet, gut it out, give it their best, and get selected anyway. There have been guys with broken bones before Team Week who made it through. There have been guys who had their boots fall apart with a week or more to go who just 100mph taped them up, and drove on through the end. I am sure that everyone in your class was hurting, some probably a lot more than you. I would wager that quite a few of them stuck it out and were selected. If you want to be selected, you just have to set your mind to completion, and keep your head in the game.
Did you not get the message about not self-selecting, and letting the cadre do that for you?
I would not attempt SFAS again until I had complete confidence that I could do it, and resolved myself to being selected or being carried out on a stretcher.
Anything less is a waste of your time, and the cadre's.
Best of luck.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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