Get Selected! for Special Forces: How to Successfully Train for and Complete Special Forces Assessment & Selection Author: Major Joseph J. Martin | Language: English | ISBN:
0975355279 | Format: EPUB
Get Selected! for Special Forces: How to Successfully Train for and Complete Special Forces Assessment & Selection Description
About the Author
Major Joseph Martin is a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer with a distinguished record of service. His assignments include several commands and key staff positions within the Special Forces community. He was the Detachment Commander responsible for starting the Special Operations Preparation & Conditioning (SOPC) Course, which prepares initial entry training soldiers for success at Special Forces Assessment and Selection. Prior to that, he served with the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) for three and a half years as a Detachment Commander, Assistant Operations Officer and Logistics Officer. He has operational deployments to Afghanistan, Qatar and Kuwait. He has conducted Special Forces and Counter Narcotics training missions in Honduras, Ecuador and Colombia. He was the Commander of the Military Free Fall School for the United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School. He also served in the Pentagon as a Special Operations Action Officer and is currently serving as a Congressional Fellow. Major Martin is a graduate of Canisius College, earning a Bachelor s of Science in Business Management. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the Special Forces Qualification Course, U.S. Army Ranger School, the Infantry Officer Advanced Course, the Static Line Jumpmaster Course, and the Military Free Fall Jumpmaster Course. He is a life member of the Special Forces Association (M-9129).
- Paperback: 150 pages
- Publisher: Warrior Mentor LLC; 1st edition (September 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0975355279
- ISBN-13: 978-0975355275
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
I commend the author for putting together such a well-needed book. I am unaware of any book similar to this one and really, if you followed all the work-up training programs outlined, you would be well prepared for any special operations group regardless of the branch of service (I am a former Marine myself). The only slight exception to this being that if you intend to pursue Marine Force Recon/MARSOC or the Navy's SEALs, you will need to add a significant amount of swimming to your prep program plans in order to be properly prepared for these units' training. Swim training is not really covered in this book as it is not a primary focus for Army SF until much later, after completing training and joining your unit, when you may be assigned to either a SCUBA focused platoon or an Airborne focused platoon where you then receive further advanced training in one of those specialized areas.
This book has some great tips and tricks also, the kind only the salty "old" guys know like how to toughen your feet, etc. before going to the Indoc Course to begin your training. Many of the things discussed in the book, including the mental training and resources to further this and other key elements your success, can be advantageous to the regular infantry trooper or even support MOS's if deploying to the wars in the Middle East. For this reason I think some of you already serving with no or undecided interest in becoming a special operations operator may find the book useful and motivating to buy anyway, because even if you don't want to become one of the highly elite of your branch of service the concepts in this book may put you well ahead of the rest in your unit if you put the advice, positive thinking (essential), and self-training guidelines to use.
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