Category: Preparing for Selection

The journey to becoming a Green Beret demands intense physical and mental preparation to overcome the high dropout rates in the selection and qualification courses.

Strap in for a first hand look at Navy SEAL Hell Week with Colonel Bob Adams who finished UDT/SEAL training as class leader of BUD/S Class 81.

Learn how to break your training rut, because failure is not an option when preparing for Special Forces Selection.

Passing Selection isn’t about being the toughest or the fastest—it’s about embracing the suck, leaving your ego at the door, and pushing through every grueling day like your life depends on it, because one day, it just might.

Facing a deteriorating relationship with my CO, I resolved to engage in a train-up regimen and requested to try out for Delta Force.

Preparing for Delta Force selection is a grueling affair, and it cannot be attempted without the proper sense of humor and humility.

Airmen, Guardians, and Soldiers navigate through the grueling yet transformative Ranger Assessment Course (RAC), sharpening their combat skills, fostering joint-force cooperation, and emerging as resilient leaders ready to face any challenge and protect our nation.

Basic Training Command at the Naval Special Warfare Center is also known as “Pre-BUDs” and screens applicants for suitability for further training as Navy SEALs and for the Special Warfare Combatant Crewman(SWCC) programs. It now has female instructors as part of the cadre.

Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division undergo SURT, or Small Unit Ranger Tactics, a program designed to prepare them to be Army Rangers.

These three cold weather survival tips from the Army’s Northern Warfare Training Center may help you stay alive when the mercury drops.

Never again would I do the rucksack flop without automatically thinking of that damned dog. And never ever would I again relax.

While preparing for any special operations selection process, one thing must be prioritized: push yourself to the limit, then push past it.