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.
Want more details?
Check out
www.warrior-mentor.com
Can't Wait to get your Copy?
Get yours directly from the Warrior Foundation at
http://www.specialops.org/news.asp#book
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