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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:26:56 AM EDT
[#1]
Nope.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:28:15 AM EDT
[#2]
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Nope. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:28:31 AM EDT
[#3]
I imagine it's just as much mental as physical. No desire to be a SEAL, so nope.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:29:47 AM EDT
[#4]
No.
If I were 18 years younger then still no. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:30:18 AM EDT
[#5]
I had a buddy who prepared for nearly a year. Constant swimming, running, and hiking.
He made it about 3/4 through and said he had enough. I’ll never, ever fault him because it’s a fucking grinder. I don’t think there really is a way to “prepare” for that type of mental/physical pain. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:30:58 AM EDT
[#6]
I think I could deal with the mental portion of it, I honestly think the physical portion would kill me, even though I consider myself in pretty decent shape now.
So nope. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:31:17 AM EDT
[#7]
I am 60 years old, and have never been a good swimmer, hate leg lifts.
I am gonna say, wait for it, nope. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:31:45 AM EDT
[#8]
FPNI.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:32:50 AM EDT
[#9]
The cardio would kill me now.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:39:20 AM EDT
[#10]
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I imagine it's just as much mental as physical. No desire to be a SEAL, so nope. I had a lot of fun in basic, it was kind of hard, but I feel like BUD/S would be harder, and NOT fun. 
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:43:07 AM EDT
[#11]
I voted yes because right now if I had 18 months to hit it hard I could physically get there, and have already gone through enough torment, hazing, pain and discomfort to know that I can push myself till I die if I have to.
Another year or two? I'd probably break physically. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:45:52 AM EDT
[#12]
We have family and friends that went through Coronado.
I thought that I was a bad ass athlete in my youth. 
No fucking way would I make it. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:47:38 AM EDT
[#13]
My bones would shatter and I’d drown.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:51:17 AM EDT
[#14]
Nope
If I could go back to 20 and had a year to prepare? I'd give it a good shot. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:52:26 AM EDT
[#15]
Hell no. Not now at 38, not at 28, not at 18. I work out regularly and stay very fit, but I am nowhere near the same league as any SOF guys.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:57:34 AM EDT
[#16]
Nope nope nope
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:58:44 AM EDT
[#17]
Nope. I wouldn't want it bad enough to tough it out
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Posted: 10/10/2017 2:59:28 AM EDT
[#18]
Fuck no. SERE was bad enough and that's just a fraction of what those crazy dudes do.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:01:04 AM EDT
[#19]
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No. If I were 18 years younger then still no. 40 yrs younger. Nope. Well, maybe. Nope. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:02:02 AM EDT
[#20]
If my fat ass walked into a recruiters office asking to work with the SEALS; they would redirect my ass to Sea World.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:03:03 AM EDT
[#21]
Nope. Medical would never clear me, and even if that was not an issue I doubt I would make it through something that rigorous, and mentally destructive.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:05:16 AM EDT
[#22]
This should be good.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:10:20 AM EDT
[#23]
I'm young, so hopefully I could prepare physically. Mentally I'd
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:10:22 AM EDT
[#24]
It all depends on what my agent thinks we can get for the book.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:13:30 AM EDT
[#25]
I believe I could give it a fair shake. I dedicate a very large chunk of my life to fitness and truly enjoy physically and emotionally pushing myself.
So, I'm not cocky enough to say I'd pass. But I can tell you I wouldn't quit until I actually lost consciousness or died, given I was 100 percent all in on the matter |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:14:22 AM EDT
[#26]
Well, another plus I have in my corner, I've been moving heavy ass rocks (20-100+ lbs) 3-4 hours a day dragging around a 10" steel pipe underwater*, so I'm pretty yoked as is, and the water was mostly about 34-36 degrees.
*one hour of work underwater is about the same as 3 hours of the same work on surface. So at least nothing would be a shock.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:17:14 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:22:44 AM EDT
[#28]
I worked out once. Once. So, no.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:23:31 AM EDT
[#29]
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If my fat ass walked into a recruiters office asking to work with the SEALS; they would redirect my ass to Sea World. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:24:54 AM EDT
[#30]
Right now with my semi-fucked up knees.....fuck no.
Back when I was 18, very small possibility, but I still doubt it |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:25:29 AM EDT
[#31]
At 46 years old ? No thank you
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:26:00 AM EDT
[#32]
Maybe in my dreams...
But not a chance in hell. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:35:16 AM EDT
[#33]
With 18 months of preparation and no other responsibilities?
Used to run sub 5 min miles, could ruck fast, did 100 push-ups in a set and could pass the PAST once upon a time. BUD/S is an ass kicker I'm sure but with training I might stand a chance. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:38:43 AM EDT
[#34]
Sadly no.
I did watch a guy do it once. He got out of the Marines, took a job working midnights at the jail. Worked out most of the night, and hit the gym during the day. It was inspiring. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:40:30 AM EDT
[#35]
At this point in my life, no. I'm 37 year old, arthritic, and diabetic.
In my younger days I was still a diabetic but was in great shape, so without the diabetes maybe. Its hard to say, since I imagine that its one of those things you have to actually experience to know how hard it is. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:44:00 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
best answer so far. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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If my fat ass walked into a recruiters office asking to work with the SEALS; they would redirect my ass to Sea World. 24% of Arf respondents think they could pass BUD/S That's some funny shit!  
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:44:15 AM EDT
[#37]
Now that I know what to prepare for, I'd have a better shot than when I was 18. Never know what's going to happen when you get there though.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:45:27 AM EDT
[#38]
I'm too old to play anymore.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 3:52:47 AM EDT
[#39]
No fucking way, not now, back in 79 I completed Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course(SFAS) and that about killed me, there is no fucking way I would say I could pass BUD/S those guys are nuts! Those guys that pass SEALS training have my full respect and admiration..
At my age, I would not make it past the first 10 minutes!
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Posted: 10/10/2017 4:03:28 AM EDT
[#40]
No, I couldn’t do it even 35 years ago when I was 18.
Went to the Airborne Course at FT Benning, then, which was actually very easy. Not bragging, really. They even were running girls through the school by that time. There were a handful of SEALs there to get their wings and I remember they had trouble keeping a straight face. Real soldiering in an Airborne unit afterwards was much harder, of course, but that school was only a ticket punch. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 4:11:28 AM EDT
[#41]
Maybe
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Posted: 10/10/2017 4:57:24 AM EDT
[#42]
In high school my goal was to enlist and try to join one of these outfits, so it was something that was always on my mind but never happened for many reasons (not even the enlist part due to injuries sustained in a car accident).
Anyway, I won't flat out say nope, but I'll say its highly unlikely I'd have ever graduated BUD/S. Even if I were in my 20's in prime physical shape I just don't think I have the mental toughness, and in addition I am probably far too lazy. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:03:36 AM EDT
[#43]
Not a snowball's chance in Hell.
Boot camp at Parris Island in 1967 was tough enough. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:03:38 AM EDT
[#44]
Been there, failed that already.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:04:37 AM EDT
[#45]
I could pass the perfect hair test, no problem.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:06:16 AM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
I imagine it's just as much mental as physical. No desire to be a SEAL, so nope. |
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:07:29 AM EDT
[#47]
I am lazy. I have no desire to be in super-ultra shape. I'd consider it a win if I just went back to being a skinny bag of bones that could sprint and jump like a boss but had no strength or endurance. But I'm too lazy to even do that any more. Every once in a while I'll get motivated enough to do like 15-20 min of extremely basic workout, i.e. pushups/situps and some basic dumbbell stuff I can do in my living room with the TV on. I get a slight amount of cardio from all the fucking stairs at work and the little bit of skimboarding I have time for.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:10:51 AM EDT
[#48]
Fresh out of PI me at 18? Maaaaaybe.
24yo me? Issue in serious doubt.Outlook very bleak. 53yo me?
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:11:55 AM EDT
[#49]
If I wasn't missing half of a lung absolutely. I'm not in bad shape, would probably end up around same weight I am now just more muscle and cut fat.
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Posted: 10/10/2017 5:19:03 AM EDT
[#50]
I had a coworker tell me about one of his old friends washing out of BUDS.
He said what wore him down was the sand in the buttcrack thing. I am guessing t hey only had UDT shorts back then and not "ranger panties", "jammers", or spandex shorts. This dude said it was like having a wire wheel chucked in a right angle grinder and having it turned on and run up and down your crack. And then you go sit in salt water. 
No thanks! |
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