Just wondering if anyone has attempted or completed Navy BUD/S training? Can you describe your experience?
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yes i have \nu can e-mall me at digrunfun@yahoo.com
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Its not as bad as everyone thinks it is...sleeping arrangements are depending if you are an officer...a chief...or a seaman...Depending on all of that. You'll sleep in "bunks" if you're enlisted...and you'll get a room if you are a high end chief and officer. Mess Hell (cafeteria) has everything you could ever ask for...soda machines...all that fun stuff...and the menu the chef cooks up is what YOU want to eat...they will poll weekly depending on each squandran wants and desires...and will plan the menu accordingly. When you're out on sea cruises...its kind of hard to get personal time...but you'll have your watch hour..included into your actual "job"...but each night..I found about 1 - 2 hours to actually sit down and play with a couple friends...or talk online to family and all. Get my Biz done. When you're ship port...you can have leave...and you may have 1 - 2 days on your own as your own free time and are allowed to roam the city...but there are days where you have to work on board...so it honestly depends on your rank...and your work title...and how high up you know in your chain of command ( its best to know the chiefs and officers on the ship you're deployed on...trust me lol. )...as an officer in the Navy...for 18 years...I've grown to know that if you work hard...the more days off you'll get from your superiors...and so on. If you need anything more...or more info...or even chiefs / officers on board any ship...feel free to IM me...I know lots...and I'm pretty high up myself...but then again...haven't been on a cruise in about...6 years lol. Hit it up. \n\n\nCaptain Matthew McPherson Jr.
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It’s been a while, 1978, but I doubt if much has changed.  The first few days are the hardest (learning how to fold clothes, procedures, and getting your head shaved), but after that they’re all pretty much the same.  \n\nAt Lackland AFB in San Antonio, you’ll live in modern dorm like quarters.  I believe there are 40 Airmen to a training flight, 20 on one side of the dorm and 20 on the other. If you’re lucky enough to have a high score on your entrance exam, you may be chosen as a Squad Leader (gives you a little more freedom and respect). Each floor has four training flights.  The mess hall, CQ, infirmary, and classrooms are located on the first floors of each dorm. \n\nYou wake up at 5:00 AM, exercise, eat breakfast, go to class for whatever you’re being trained for, eat lunch, learn weaponry, hike, obstacle course, lots and lots of marching, eat supper, clean the dorms, do laundry, study and go to bed around nine to start all over again the next morning.   Different days, you do different things at different times, but it all seemed the same to me. About half of the day is spent in class and the other half in physical training.\n\nThe Flight on the other side of the hall from you is called your Sister Flight and you guys compete against each other throughout the course of training.  If you mess up or one of the members of your Flight messes up, you or the entire Flight can be set back to day one.\n\nAs a bus load of graduates were making their way out Lackland, one Airman shot the bird at an officer's car out the back window of the bus and the entire Flight was sent back to day one.\n\nOne bit of advice I could to give you is to never, never, never under any circumstances volunteer for anything.  They hand out the worst tasks first and the easiest last; if all the jobs like, sweeping, scrubbing the latrine and laundry get filled by volunteers, you won’t have to do any of those types of chores.  I panicked and made the mistake of raising my hand; if I had not volunteered, I wouldn’t have had to do anything.  Oh yeah, pay close attention to what your TI (training instructor) says, they hate daydreamers. \n\nGood Luck!
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US Air Force Basic Training is perhaps the easiest of all of the services. Just keep your nose clean, do what is asked and you will do fine. Physical Training is part of it, but you will have help along the way. They don't expect you to run two miles in 15 minutes, but they do have a standard to go by and to pass you must pass you physical fitness test. Just tell yourself you can do it and you will.\n Basic is a mind game, in that they are trying to get you out of thinking like a civilian and more like a soldier. It is not brainwashing! Basically just changing your thought process to follow orders and work under pressure.\n You will have harassment, but everybody does. If you feel you are being singled out, you can report it. Also the males are educated against harassment, but some of the few think of themselves as a ladies man.\n  If you do join and are lucky enough to pick you job, try for something in computers or maintenance. If you do it long enough in the service, you have the chance to become certified in the real world and can get a great paying job in the future. Just remember, keep your nose clean and an open mind and you will do great. Good Luck!
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Hi, I spent 22 years in the Navy and I loved all of it.  The education and training can't be beat.  Your advancement is up to you and your performance. Just as in any job or field there are ups and downs but I you are a positive person you will make the best of it.  Todays armed forces provide a wide asortment of jobs to choose from.  I retired and worked in the same field for many more years but my training in the Navy is what got me into great paying jobs.  If you are still not sure, try the reserves to find out if it is something you might want for a career.  Good Luck!
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I hear it is really easy, but annoying.  I know that since so many soldiers have been getting kicked back for wait and pt test failure, that you can still go if you fail, you will just graduate as, im not sure what the word is, Average.  Even if all of your scores are perfect.  I guess its a gentlemans course, no smoke sessions.
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Ex Navy here.\nE-3 Deck Seaman, your thanks is greatly appreciated.\nOn board the USS Kauffman FFG-59
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I was a female in the navy for 4 yrs. I learn a lot and had great fun doing it. The freinds you make in there last forever and it is a different kinda friends too. More special I would say. I got out in 96 and still talk to a few of my closer friends. As far as jobs no it didnt help me in a way, the job I had was an operational specialist. radar, navagation, and that kinda stuff near the bridge of the ship ( top ) If I had it to do over again I would make sure that the job I got was one that would trasfer to a civilian job. Which mine didnt. But having been in the Navy looks great on resumes.I will never regret my choice to join. What an andverture. traveling was the best. Singapore, Guam, Hawii,Hong Kong, Germany, Persian Gulf, Dubai let alone the states. I would strongly recommend if to a female for sure, specially if you have no outlook for college or anything like that. Cause I didnt even want to think of college.. So I hope you choose what is good for you and have fun doing whatever it is that the future stores. Best of luck to you
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idraw4u hit it in a nutshell.\nBest advice I can give is to find someone who is recently out after more than 6 years or is currently in with more than 6 years. Reason I say this is the first few years in any branch of the service is the worst. You're starting at the bottom of the ladder. Anyone with less than 6 years probably does not have a good feeling for the Navy. Over 6 years they have re-enlisted by seeing something positive in the Navy life.\nRecruiters-will not lie to you, however they will not tell you the whole truth. Misinformation by a recruiter can get them thrown in the brig, period. They are very good at what they do, like used car salesmen. They can show you everything available on the lot but there is a few they have to get sold and will try to "guide" you into buying it. Research on your own on what you would like to do as a job, keeping in mind on if it is a marketable skill when you enter life after the military. What schools can you get guaranteed after bootcamp? Accelerated advancement (higher rank, better pay)? Once you have found one or two skills you want, talk to a recruiter. Stick to your guns on what job you want, cause they will try to get you to take one of the higher priority job they have to fill. Every month, they get the new list of openings, so if they don't have what you want, check back next month or have them contact you when one comes up. This is your life decision, make sure YOU make it. Good luck and hope to call you shipmate soon.
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Any member of any service branch can try out for Seals... The better training you have the better off you will be.. Ill suggest Marine boot to start and then once ready physically and mentally do the BUDs.. \nGood Luck\n\nCpl. Howitzer, USMC
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Discuss what ratings/MOSs have the best promotion rates (the Navy says "Choose your rate-- choose your fate").  For example, in the Navy a 'nuke'-- a Machinists Mate (nuclear), may be a Second Class Petty Officer (E-5) by the time he finishes school and goes to his first sub or carrier; while a Mess Specialist (cook)will be lucky to make E-5 in his first enlistment.  Of course, nuke school is also the hardest school, academically, in the Navy, and a lot od students (including officer students) wash out because they can't handle the academics.  Choose your rate-- choose your fate.\n\nAsk about where you're likely to be stationed in your first tour (if you're looking at infantry, I'll give you a hint: Iraq).\n\nAsk about the potential for college credit and further education-- some rate/MOS training is worth college credit (and boot camp is usually good for a couple of P.E. credits in any case), and many bases have college campuse extensions, offering classes on base.  Education counts in the military-- not just having it, but willingness to further it.\n\nFind out about potential bonuses, for signing up or for re-enlisting (and don't yield to temptation and blow the bonus on a shiny new pickup truck, which will then sit, undriven, for a year or more while you're deployed).\n\nAnd perhaps most important, get your answers in writing.  It won't help to say "But the recruiter promised me that I could go to such-and-such school"-- nobody cares.  If it's not in your contract, it doesn't exist.\n\nAs the saying goes, "How do you know when your recruiter's lying to you?  His lips move."   It's not true of all recruiters-- there are some very good ones-- but they're under tremendous pressure to make their quotas, especially now, with an increasingly unpopular war reducing the number of willing applicants.
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My selection process was as follows and I'll start at the very beginning:\n\n1.) Medical Physical&#92;ASVAB test to decide placement (Job qualification)\n2.) Orlando, Great Lakes or San Diego (Bootcamps - Orlando is closed now)\n3.) A-School (Training for your job rating, usually lasting four to eight weeks)\n4.) Before leave assigned duty station. \n5.) 2 Weeks Leave (Optional)\n6.) Report to Duty Station\n7.) Spend 6 months at duty station eligible to submit "Request Chit" for BUDS (E-2 and above may submit for BUDS).\n8.) Pre-screen to include intense medical physical, strengent excercise quals, deep sea hyperbaric chamber testing, final canidate eval, reporting date to BUDS.\n9.) Arrive BUDS, early morning I-Doc\n10.) Weeks 1 through 4, seperates the weak from the strong, by intense mental and physical training, many drop voluntarily during this time.\n11.) Weeks 5 through 8, voluntary droppers are no more, dropping mostly by qualification times in Team excercise events as well as individual events.  At this stage your immune to the B.S. but not the immune from the pain of the tests and excercises which are just about constant throughout the day...\n12.) Week 8 through 10, begin Scuba classes and underwater training and survival.  Assigned wetsuit, knife.  Test become harder and more challenging not only physically but mentally as well. Lots of pool time and classroom time, learn about rebreathers, and other devices as well as personal underwater gear.\n13.) Weeks 10 through 15 Continue water survival, becomes more advanced, learn EOD, deep submersion tests, as well as deep escape from pressurized enviroments.  Lots of classroom time as well as pool time.\n14.) Weeks 16 through 20, water training continued instructors aren't easier but there is a sense of respect and you aren't treated like a scrub.  Most that have made it to this point have strong probability of passing BUDS.  Jungle survival, land reconsience, geographical above and underwater mapping, Team activities, War games usually on nearby training Island, escape and evasion tactics, live fire excercises, CQB training.\n15.) Weeks 21 through 27, Final testing, 14 mile ocean swim( bay) without fins, 23 mile run (boots and shorts timed), written tests, final medical and performance eval.\n\n\nSome of your weekends are free some aren't...You have the option to live on base or off.  After graduation, you will go to Fort Benning, Georgia to Jump school and spend six weeks training at low jumps, static line (500ft), (1000ft), 12000ft). High jumps (freefall)at 15000ft +, usually assisted with O2 breather, both Night and Day time qualifications needed with High Jump. \n\nAfter Fort Benning, you have the option to take leave, you are given your duty station an TEAM that your assigned to.  Each TEAM specializs in their own tactics and training.  Upon arrival at your Duty station training will continue but be more detailed as to that particular TEAMS speciality.  Have the option of getting EOD qual.  Your paid standard danger pay E-4 ($150 month), E-5 ($210), E-6 ($320) and so on.  Even though their are officers in the BUDS program, everyone is a scrub, there are no yes sirs except to the instructors.\n\nOnce classified as a SEAL, you are given special priviledges, these priviledges are not spoken but known throughout the Navy i.e Can grow hair longer, E-3's allowed to have facial hair, respect lots of it from both Officers and Enlisted alike.  \n\nThere was much more than this in my training, however this will give you a quick over-view of what happens.
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Well, your question was probably not answered because it was very vague.  Asking about a specific " US-Navy security a guy," is a little crazy.  I mean, there are a lot of Navy guys.\nMaybe ask it again with a little more information, although I doubt it will be able to be answered here anyway.
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I went to Ft Jackson SC in modern buildings that have males and females in attached wings but mess hall is also in another wing. To make your bed you tuck sheets in tight and have hospital corners. Physical Training is about 2 hours a day starting at 0530 then you eat for 10 minutes then you shower, shave, brush teeth, and change uniforms. Classroom training for 2 hours (you do not want to fall asleep in there just see what your DI (Drill Instructor) will make you do. Weapons training on a firing range shooting targets up to 300 yds away. Wash your clothes at night road march on base and cattle car transportation in field over 10 miles from barracks. 6 weeks of the best training in my life and I lost 10 pounds. I also run the two mile in 15.30 no fraternizing in basic training but you wait until AT (Advanced Training ) which I recommend right after BT (Basic Training) when you are still in good shape. I served for 8 years in ARNG MN/WI then got honorable discharge. Be all that you can be.
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When I was in it i was in NJROTC which is the navy version. We had classes learning about the navy and we also had a day atleast once a week when we went outside to play or practice drills, u also get called out of class before a pep rally or event to prepare. I was in it for 2 years and really liked it. We also had to wear our uniform once a week.
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Nope, will not happen. Even if you get a mental discharge. It is other than honorable...which is crap. How much time you have left? Hang in there. Be over before you know it.\n\nEDIT: I know your pain.....I went into the Navy at 26...i completely see and understand all you are saying. Hang in there. Most of the younger bucks lose face when they start acting all big and bad. Don;t worry about it. \n\nBut, remember: You face the same thing in the real world. I work at an Engineering firm now. And my BOSS is a 23 year old brat.
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I don't know the official answer to your question, but I do know that since we pride ourselves on "leadership by example" be prepared for it to be more mentally challenging than the 12 weeks I spent on Parris Island in enlisted boot camp. You should also realize, however, that there comes a point where it can't possibly get too much more strenuous...we're all physiologically about the same, so peak conditioning for me would be roughly peak conditioning for you. What's required of officers is different, though, and therein lies the challenge. But I suspect you'll do just fine. By the way, having served with ROTC officers as well as Mustangers, it's been my experience (as an NCO) that Mustangers make the better officers in terms of their grasp of the overall military objectives and their ability to relate to their Marines. Good luck in all your future endeavors. Semper Fidelis.