Get Selected for Special Forces

Warrior-Mentor · 06-17-2005, 23:31

Get Selected For Special Forces: How to Successfully Complete Assessment & Selection by MAJ Joe Martin with MSG Rex Dodson.

Are you looking for answers how to prepare for Special Forces Training?

I know how you feel.

Here's why...

When I was preparing for SF Assessment & Selection (SFAS), I felt the same way when looked for a book to help me prepare. There wasn't one. Lots of stuff about SF and the history. Nothing on how to prepare for the training.

Here's what I found...I had to go from person to person...anyone I saw with an SF tab, asking them:
- What did you do to get ready?
- How did you prepare?
- What would you do differently?

It was crazy. I was at Fort Bliss, TX and there weren't many SF guys there. So I had to figure it out the hard way. I kept training while I was at Ft Benning in the Infantry Advanced Course...although there were more, there still weren't that many SF guys available to ask for advice...so I kept training.

Since then I completed the SFQC and served as a SF Team Leader.

In November 2001, I was tasked with re-engineering the Special Operations Prepartion Course (SOPC) to meet the needs of the 18X Program. We found out the 7 reasons why candidates fail out of SFAS, then we built a program to minimize or eliminate each of the factors.

It worked. 18Xs started completing SFAS and getting selected at TWICE the rate of Active Duty Enlisted Soldiers (Over 70% vs 30-35%).

When the Commanding General asked us:

"How can we better prepare SF Candidates for BEFORE they report to Fort Bragg?"

We knew the answer was to capture the lessoned learned and write the book.

So we did. We based it on the question:

"If your son was getting ready for SFAS, what would you tell him?"

GET SELECTED FOR SPECIAL FORCES is the answer to that question.

When we realized the book would make money, we decided the right answer was to donate ALL of the royalties to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (www.specialops.org), which provides college scholarships and eductaion counselling for the children of Special Operations Personnel who are killed in training or operational missions.

Our goal is to raise over $20,000 for the Warrior Foundation in order to fund a scholarship. In order to GUARANTEE we do that, we shipped over 1,000 copies directly to the Warrior Foundation Headquaters in Tampa. All we have to do now is get the word out and let future candidates know this resource is available to them.

If you are serious about going Special Forces or just want to know more about the Special Forces Training Pipeline, GET SELECTED FOR SPECIAL FORCES is right for you.

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elmntskater1588 · 06-18-2005, 14:53

Just ordered one, Thanks. Hope it comes soon.

frostfire · 06-19-2005, 18:19

Thank you for making the book available, Sir.
Order sent.

Warrior-Mentor · 06-29-2005, 17:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by elmntskater1588

Just ordered one, Thanks. Hope it comes soon.

Did you get it yet?

Just so you know, the books go out MEDIA MAIL, so it's a little slower than normal priority mail.

Looking forward to your feedback...

Warrior-Mentor · 06-29-2005, 20:04

Received this from someone just finished reading GET SELECTED.

With his permission, here's his comments:

Quote:

Sir,

Received the book last Friday-- sat down to have a quick look and didn't get up until I had read it through cover to cover. I read it again over the weekend and now my wife is reading it. Outstanding... the only word that will do it justice. This is exactly the book I was looking for. This will be my constant companion for the next six months until I ship out for OSUT. Thanks again and I look forward to receiving updates from the website.

Sincerely,

Robert J

Robert,
Thanks for the feedback!
With your permission, I'd like to post your note on www.professionalsoldiers.com.
Please let me know.
Thanks again,
Joe Martin

Quote:

Sir,

Absolutely! No doubt there are hundreds of guys like myself out there looking for the same kind of critical info to help them on their road to SFAS. I'm more than happy to help spread the word.

Sincerely,

Robert J

The Dave · 06-29-2005, 21:23

Sir, this book is incredible. I received it on Monday, and haven't been able to put it down. So far, many of my questions that were stilll un-answered, are no longer that way.

Many thanks to you for the work you've put into this!!

Dave

I'll post up again in a couple of days, once I have had a chance to finish it

NousDefionsDoc · 06-29-2005, 21:29

If you are planning on dancing, unless the book weighs 65 pounds, is OD green and has shoulder straps, you better be putting it down at least 2 hours in the morning and another 2 hours in the evening. Try reading in the front leaning rest.

REMFlt · 07-18-2005, 12:31

I bought the book at the clothing and sales, and have been reading it daily. I'm recommending it to everybody in the pre-ranger course down here. I've found it pretty useful so far. Thank you for writing this , Sir.

Warrior-Mentor · 07-18-2005, 22:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by REMFlt

I bought the book at the clothing and sales, and have been reading it daily. I'm recommending it to everybody in the pre-ranger course down here. I've found it pretty useful so far. Thank you for writing this , Sir.

Thanks for the feedback and the help getting the word out.
JM

P.S. Thanks to you and the others here at PS.com, we've already raised over $4,600 for the Warrior Foundation. Appreciate the support.

Warrior-Mentor · 07-19-2005, 23:03

Great feed back on GET SELECTED continues to roll in.

After the author gave me his permission, I wanted to share this with you...

Quote:

In a message dated 7/15/2005 3:05:33 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time:

Major Joe Martin,

Sir my name is CH (CPT) Primo Davis and I am the battalion chaplain for 1st 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne (Air Assault). Ranger school is hopefully in the near future for me and for sometime now I have been considering the opportunity of being a chaplain in the special operations community. It was for this reason that I purchased "Get Selected for Special Forces".

Although the assignment of chaplains to Special Forces units is much different than the average officer, I know that should I be assigned to the special operations community the more knowledge I have, and the more I personally embrace the Special Forces mentality, the better I will be able to serve Special Forces soldiers and their family members as a chaplain.

I read the book in two days, and it only took me that long because it wasn't a weekend. The book is GREAT! I believe the principles you deal with in the book will not only make a soldier "get selected", but when applied in all areas of life will make a man an even greater man than he already is.

The real reason I wanted to drop you a little note was because as a chaplain, I find the book filled with elements of faith and the teachings of the bible. I'm not sure of your exact faith journey, but that fact that you know the Lord is evident in every page of the book. The principles of team work, determination, love for your brother, health, temperance, positive mental attitude etc. are all teachings found throughout the Bible. (As you probably well know) Reading the book not only motivated me as a soldier, but as a chaplain and preacher as well.

I thought you should know, from the unique Infantry Chaplains perspective: TWO THUMBS UP! I will promote this book as much as I can, not only for the valuable content, but for the much worthy cause which it supports. Look for an order with my name on it from my chapel here at Ft. Campbell, so I can get this book in the hands of my guys who need it.

May God continue to bless you as you do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Very Respectfully and...
In Continued Service to God & Country,

CH (CPT) Primitivo Davis
First Strike!
AIR ASSAULT!

Warrior-Mentor · 07-21-2005, 13:55

Only 5 copies of GET SELECTED to go.

It's true.

I just got off the phone with the Warrior Foundation.

Dow said we've already sold 245 books... so they only have 5 books left until we have successfully raised over $5,000 for the foundation.

If you hurry, you can be the one to put us over the 25% mark towards our short term goal of funding a scholarship by raising over $20,000 for the foundation.

Any takers?

aricbcool · 07-21-2005, 21:41

Great idea related to this book:http://www.professionalsoldiers.com/...ead.php?t=7618

Check it out, and throw down.

--Aric