[MikeKilo]

1. Canteen straws are great to hydrate and drop weight while you move. Bringing a camelback doesn't mean you get to leave your 2qts empty, you still have to fill them.
2. Bring the lightest possible boots you can. Preferably ones that dry quickly.
3. Bring a book. You won't trade it, but you will be bored.
4. Poncho in the top of the ruck with bungie cords ready. A wet rucksack is a heavy rucksack.
5. Don't bring a million pairs of everything. You don't need it.
6. Map case with dummy cord. I didn't bring one, and it was stupid.
7. The new ACU's that have button cargo pockets. The draw monster will have a harder time getting to your goodies.
8. Train with a 50lb rucksack and get the hell off the road. You won't develop the necessary stabilizer muscles by road marching. Then walk. Then walk some more. And walk until your feet are leather and peel every other week.
9. People say it takes 100% commitment to pass. I think a more accurate statement is that before you start SFAS, that you want nothing else in this world. If you do, you will not make it.

In the words of the CSM that inbriefed us, "If you weren't trying to G2 this course before you got here, you're a f***ing idiot. I don't do shit without trying to G2 the hell out of it."