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[RLTW]

My Naval Special Warfare career was delayed by 4 and a half years due to a recruiter saying off hand that at MEPS I could pick "ANY" job I wanted, as soon as that was done, I could take my SPECWAR physical and apply for SEAL/SWCC/EOD/Diver. Unbeknownst to me this did not apply to any rating that was a submarine rate, or nuke. Thankfully I wasn't dumb (smart?) enough to take nuke, but had picked a submarine rate. On the way back to the recruiting station I told him what I had picked and only then did he inform me that submariners couldn't volunteer for SPECWAR.

Now, as a more senior Petty Officer than what my recruiter was at the time (we are the same rank now, funny enough) I know that he wasn't malicious, just misinformed. He had been told that it was impossible and in turn told me the same. I now know that while in DEP you can do just about anything as far as changing your job, even if that means quitting, waiting a few months and then joining up with the job you wanted.

All that, I ended up loving my job, doing a lot stuff I didn't know that the Navy did. I ended up seeing far more of the world than I would have as part of a SpecWar group. But after that was all done, and I still wanted to [at least] try to join that community and after about a year of paperwork, dive physicals and hard training I finally received the opportunity and I've been super happy since.

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Serving your country is serving your country, I'm not arguing that. And some people don't care and just want to join (and don't play the game, if you will) and then get pissy when they get a certain "******" job, but for some, there is legit grievances because their recruiter withheld info, or lies of omission. Then again I know for a fact the recruiter could very well have told them one thing and the recruit heard something else.

That's the problem with navy specwar, there isn't much to fall back on. In the army you can come in with a rasp or xray contract and go directly to sof, or come in and be in a conventional line unit and gain some experience. You can go somewhere like the 82nd if you want to work with sof alot and get your feet wet, then when you feel like it put a packet in for selection or rasp. You've got all of our other sof elements like ca, psyops, and the number of special missions units that I wont mention by name. Hell we have soo many groups that half of the time when i get the blanket recruiting emails about them i'm not even sure which one it is. Even if after all of that you don't find a place in the sof world for yourself, you can still be an infantryman, there's just so many options.

 

[cbcgeneral]

Man it's so weird seeing a thread get derailed and @Jimbo not be the cause of it. I guess he's to busy over at the BMW forums derailing their threads with his shenanigans. Lol.

 

[RLTW]

all frf threads get derailed, it's only a matter of time.

 

[cbcgeneral]

all frf threads get derailed, it's only a matter of time.

Lol ya I know but he's usually the main culprit.

 

[badm0t0rfinger]

That's the problem with navy specwar, there isn't much to fall back on. In the army you can come in with a rasp or xray contract and go directly to sof, or come in and be in a conventional line unit and gain some experience. You can go somewhere like the 82nd if you want to work with sof alot and get your feet wet, then when you feel like it put a packet in for selection or rasp. You've got all of our other sof elements like ca, psyops, and the number of special missions units that I wont mention by name. Hell we have soo many groups that half of the time when i get the blanket recruiting emails about them i'm not even sure which one it is. Even if after all of that you don't find a place in the sof world for yourself, you can still be an infantryman, there's just so many options.

If you wash out, plan on becoming needs of the Navy unless you are a fleet returnee, then you will probably just return to your previous rate. I know of more than a few bud/s duds that go HM and get picked up for FMF and then Force Recon/MARSOC/Raiders (whatever they are calling themselves this month) real quick. Then again, there is always a chance you could get hooked up and go to another school.

Then again you can always do another job and go to a Specwar Support Command and do a lot of cool stuff while not being the tip of the spear. My old barracks roommate is MC (mass communications specialist) and he went to dive school and jump school so that he could take pictures for AllHands and the PACOM PAO.

But like you said, there is more of a safety net to when attempting to become Special Operations while a member of the Army or Marines, compared to the Navy and Air Force. But there is still huge support networks for all branches.

 

[Jimbo]

 

[RLTW]

If you wash out, plan on becoming needs of the Navy unless you are a fleet returnee, then you will probably just return to your previous rate. I know of more than a few bud/s duds that go HM and get picked up for FMF and then Force Recon/MARSOC/Raiders (whatever they are calling themselves this month) real quick. Then again, there is always a chance you could get hooked up and go to another school.



Then again you can always do another job and go to a Specwar Support Command and do a lot of cool stuff while not being the tip of the spear. My old barracks roommate is MC (mass communications specialist) and he went to dive school and jump school so that he could take pictures for AllHands and the PACOM PAO.



But like you said, there is more of a safety net to when attempting to become Special Operations while a member of the Army or Marines, compared to the Navy and Air Force. But there is still huge support networks for all branches.

Lol yeah but marsoc sucks, they just copied the sf selection and q course model and when such a huge number of their dudes didn't pass they just grandfathered them in lol. There's a reason they got kicked out of jsoc back in the day hahaha.


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[RaptorScrew]

Anyone's garage on here?

 

[Wilson]

Mine not in it yet.
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipN-AEqgm0fRQw8lc41yawOT1IvIbuxPsQtFBneA

 

[2014RubyRed]

Mine not in it yet.
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipN-AEqgm0fRQw8lc41yawOT1IvIbuxPsQtFBneA

Goddamit Wilson, you're pic links are always screwed up!!! lol