10-02-2006, 09:21
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Best Course You Have Attended?
Okay, everybody knows about all the HSLD insertion and shooting schools, plus all the other "ninja skills" schools. What was the best, or favorite, MOS related school you ever attended? Either MIL or CIV.
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10-02-2006, 09:51
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Best Course You Have Attended?
Ops& Intel SFTG '64-'65
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10-02-2006, 11:14
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As an Engineering type I loved Sapper School (pre-tab days, you know…when it was hard). I also got to attend a target analysis course that was awesome, but it took some brain power to complete. But the best time ever at a military school – MFF (HALO). First the course is a blast all by itself, but Lake Havasue during Spring Break…you got to be kidding me that I got paid for that trip!
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10-02-2006, 11:34
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Originally Posted by SF18C
Lake Havasu during Spring Break…you got to be kidding me that I got paid for that trip!
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I've been there, and you're right!
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10-02-2006, 13:04
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Best in what way? Fun? Most educational? Most useful?
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10-02-2006, 16:17
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Fun wise without a doubt was the coveted "Inland Waterways" training in Alaska. Went there with the team during Alaskan summer. Lots of time in a motor boat on beautiful rivers. Camping and fishing in some of the most georgeous wilderness I have ever seen. Not your typical SF training.
Learning wise, SFQC pilot course with then Maj Robert Howard....unbelieveably demanding from every angle.
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01-02-2009, 19:03
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Originally Posted by SF18C
As an Engineering type I loved Sapper School (pre-tab days, you know…when it was hard). I also got to attend a target analysis course that was awesome, but it took some brain power to complete. But the best time ever at a military school – MFF (HALO). First the course is a blast all by itself, but Lake Havasue during Spring Break…you got to be kidding me that I got paid for that trip!
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Agreed, by far MFF is the best or funnest elite school I have had priveldge to attend. But my course was far better than Yuma. I attended the Tac Air course in Otay Lakes/Jamul, CA an Eastern suburb of San Diego. Its kinda like this:
MFF.......................................$6000
Lost Rip Cord..........................$100
Premiun case of beer................$24
Army Airborne Shuffle.....Worthless
Not being trained by the Army.......PRICELESS
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01-02-2009, 19:09
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Agreed, by far MFF is the best or funnest elite school I have had priveldge to attend. But my course was far better than Yuma. I attended the Tac Air course in Otay Lakes/Jamul, CA an Eastern suburb of San Diego. Its kinda like this:
MFF.......................................$6000
Lost Rip Cord..........................$100
Premiun case of beer................$24
Army Airborne Shuffle.....Worthless
Not being trained by the Army.......PRICELESS
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I wouldn't push that line too hard here.
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01-02-2009, 19:23
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I wouldn't push that line too hard here.
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Understood Sir...I will be a polite guest.
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12-09-2006, 22:37
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Danish Combat Swimmer Course
One of the most demanding schools was the Danish Combat Swimmers Course at Kongsore Torpedo Station, Denmark. Morning PT was a 10K run followed by an hour of soccer. Timed 1K swims were a b----! Who can forget the 3K swim towing half a telephone pole (6 guys to a pole), then carrying the damn thing a click and a half over land while wearing a drysuit. The final 10K swim in 6 hours out in the North Sea (water temp was 52 degrees!) was memorable. My swim buddy had broken his big toe on a run and couldn't kick evenly; kept trying to swim in circles. The only course more physically demanding was the SF enlisted phase I program out at Camp Mackall. I lost 43 pounds in 26 days - from 190 to 147. Oh to be in that shape today!
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12-10-2006, 00:54
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Hipshot:
You might want to read the stickies and work your way over to the Introductions thread and post one there.
Thanks, enjoy your visit.
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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
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12-12-2006, 15:22
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Best courses
SFARTAETC
Sapper Leader Course
Q Course
M-60 machine gunners course (just because I got to carry the M-60 in the trunk of my POV) 
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12-17-2006, 20:17
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Ranger School and SERE
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.
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03-22-2007, 17:18
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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.
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For me it was Pre-Scuba/ CDQC hands down!
Its amazing what humans will do when faced with certain death by drowning.
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09-17-2007, 17:30
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CEFE la Guyane
Le Centre d'Entraînement en Forêt Equatoriale
The Legions Jungle Commando Stage.....
ouch.....but the most enjoyable by far
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