Who is there in the "green berets" wants? Comment on comments
I read the comments on a recent article about the American view of our Special Operations Forces (MTR). As usual, in the comments to articles of this kind, readers "roll down" to a comparison of "their" and "us." And from the abundance of "patriotic fervor" they conclude that their supernashies and "fie on them" are theirs. Attempts by specialists to clarify, within the framework of what is permitted, who is who, stumble upon comments from "uryakalok."
In order to slightly expand the knowledge of our readers about what the US MTR is, in particular, the famous “green berets,” I decided to write this material. The enemy can not be afraid. But the enemy must be known and respected. 80 also didn’t pass as we sang:
"We do not want war, but we will protect ourselves -
We mount defense for a reason.
And in enemy land, we will crush the enemy
Little blood, a mighty blow! "
How did such moods end, we also remember. Therefore, the Victory Day is with tears in our eyes. We say “thank you” to tens of millions of living and dead defenders of the Motherland. We say thank you for our life, for freedom ...
The US Army Special Forces, better known to our readers as Green Berets, are special units of the US Army destined for RDO, guerrilla warfare in the rear of the enemy, counter-guerrilla and counter-terrorist operations and others. The motto of the "green berets" was the slogan "Free from Oppression" (De Oppresso Liber).
And now let's “join” the “green berets” all together. To go at least virtually everything that ordinary candidates are experiencing.
First of all, I will “chill” those who are torn in “ZB” right from school. You go there the road is closed initially. In order to become a candidate in the "ST", you must already be a soldier of the US Land Forces (the condition is mandatory, without any exceptions). Moreover, you must have the obligatory experience of skydiving.
But you are lucky. You are a soldier or a sergeant of the American army, jumped with a parachute and selected to take a qualifying course for special forces. Just three weeks of exhausting humbling and humiliation, sleepless nights, and 10-kilometer crossings, sergeant tests and bullying. Well, and other "merry" army things American special forces.
The first days you are lucky. You fall into the hands of the "eggheads". You write tests, you talk to the ladies from the psychological service. And in the evenings the sergeants "mock" you. Tests, tests, tests ... And each test is a reason to deduct you from the number of candidates. By the way, those famous footage when an American sergeant yells at a soldier is also a test for psychological stability. And the "run" in the bellies of soldiers too. Stress resistance...
Gradually, in a few days, you begin to "drive" on physical training. Just for those who like to compare the load, I’ll give some criteria for the selection of candidates. The candidate must: 80 once wrung out from the floor, make 100 torso lifts from the supine position, 15 pull up on the crossbar (2 min for each exercise). Well, for runners there is a cross. Total 3,2 km. I do not want to run. Over 12 minutes. Otherwise, they will not give more run.
And on the "snack" runners waiting for marches. Number four in four days. The first two days - "unloading". Total 18 kilograms in a backpack, and forward - 10 km. The last "runs" will load the sergeant to 20 kg ... There is nothing to run "empty". A standard - 90 minutes.
But do not think that the "egg heads" got rid of you at this time. No, the tests continue. And the sergeants are bullied in the same way. Only now added more officers. They study, more precisely, research the special training of candidates. Topography, communication, possession weapons, possession of military equipment ...
You are strong, patient, purposeful. You want to become a green beret. Therefore suffered two weeks. Commander's week has come. Each of the candidates suddenly becomes the commander of a real group. They are given a task, and ... go ahead. Gather a team, assign roles, get your orders fulfilled. Himself, all myself. No one will help. And your comrades will just laugh at your references to the statutes and orders of other commanders. And this bastard, your sergeant, with a smirk and a cigarette in his mouth, sits on the sidelines and periodically scares the local fauna with “horse neighing” from your teams and commanding decisions.
After three weeks, the most critical part of your tests comes. "Eggheads," sergeants, commanders render their verdict. Whether you are in the chosen profession or not. Any of them can "stall" your further career. Further tests. Like at school. In all subjects. And ratings ...
Last build. The ranks of those who stood for three weeks in this system have thinned significantly. Approximately 40-45% left.
Those who left, no one blames. You stayed. You won! So, now your way to the rangers training battalion. And on your chest you have the first reward. The sign of the passage of the initial training of the Rangers.
And here he is, the holy of holies of American special forces. Fort Bragg! Here you have to stay from 13 to 45 weeks. This is where you will pass the green beret qualification course. Here you have to become a specialist. And not a specialist "broad profile."
The training course at Fort Bragg is divided in the same way as at the selection stage into three phases. In the first weeks you study the basic military disciplines. From topography to the ability to command a group. The course is quite serious. You get knowledge and skills of a sergeant in a short time.
Practically during this period, you understand that any of your comrades, like you yourself, may well now become a quite good army sergeant and serve in the "normal" American army without tension. In addition, you and your commanders define your "hobbies." Simply put, your military specialization is determined.
The most important stage, in my opinion, comes later. You become a specialist. Someone - shooter-sniper. Someone is a signalman. Someone is a sapper. Someone - "doctor". Chase on the chosen specialty mercilessly. If you really wanted to become a sniper - be just a sniper, and not an excellent shooter. If the sapper, then no worse than an army specialist. And even better. And so everywhere.
However, this does not cancel classes in other disciplines. Advanced sergeant courses in all types of training! Naturally, everything is against the background of constant intensive physical training. Plus, marches through the day and daily classes in hand-to-hand combat.
By the way, with the physical training in the "green berets" everything is in order. The myth of the Americans as weaklings does not pass here. Strong, trained and trained fighters. Owning the most modern martial arts and any weapon.
The course ends. There comes a time that is known to many specialists as passing exams, for example, for a maroon takes or something like that. The time when you get the title of fighter of a special unit. And you can call yourself no longer a candidate for the “ZB”, but a “green beret”.
Temporary teams are formed from the cadets to perform specific combat missions. A regular team is 12 people of different types of specialists. Depending on the task, the commander completes the team with the necessary specialists. By the way, exactly the same groups are the basis of the mouth of the "green berets" in combat units. In the 5 company of such groups.
In the center of North Carolina is the Yoharri National Forest. It is there that the first “combat” operation of the newly-reclaimed “ZB” takes place. In fact, this event is held after each release and has the code name "Robin Sage".
The tasks are set in such a way that all candidates can show all the skills and abilities acquired during their studies. Now the backpack is real. With real gear and real weight. 40-45 kilograms. Now you need to blow up real objects. Now you need to work in the rear of the enemy, who not only knows that you are near, but is very much looking forward to meeting.
A few days of survival in the rear of the enemy, the implementation of the combat mission. Finally the day you have been waiting for so long comes. You first get the green beret! And on your chest appears a sign of "green berets". Well, a soldier is always a soldier, on his shoulder tattoo.
By the way, given that the majority of readers of the Military Review have already had or were related to the army, and far from ordinary, I’ll have a little bit to cool this category as well. Officers and warrant officers (although there is no such thing in the American army, something remotely resembling warrant officers called warrant officers) are trained the same way. The only privilege is special groups for officers. The rest is the same as the soldiers. With the same loads.
Do you think that your adventures of today are over, and the good four-legged sofa friend can take the new green beret into his arms? In vain. You still have to go 6-month courses of foreign languages. Depending on the region where you will serve. Which group will you get into? Yes, and your place of service will be strictly regulated. For example, do you look like a resident of Southeast Asia or the Pacific? Then serve you on Okinawa. And learn Japanese. Want to stay in Fort Bragg? No problem. Learn Spanish and get ready to fight in West Africa or the Caribbean. Europe? German language and service in Stuttgart.
At the beginning of the article I wrote that one should not underestimate the enemy. And what our fighters in Syria are facing today is not dekhkans and traders. These are people trained by graduates of Fort Bragg. Trained, trained and highly motivated enemies. That is why victories are not easy there.
And some frivolity in presenting the path of a simple "green beret" is not caused by disregard of the enemy. Simply, as many commentators on the above article clearly noted, we beat them, beat them and will beat them. And because we are not weaker. And because we are fighting for the Motherland, and not for money. The soldier's gut can't be changed ...
In order to slightly expand the knowledge of our readers about what the US MTR is, in particular, the famous “green berets,” I decided to write this material. The enemy can not be afraid. But the enemy must be known and respected. 80 also didn’t pass as we sang:
"We do not want war, but we will protect ourselves -
We mount defense for a reason.
And in enemy land, we will crush the enemy
Little blood, a mighty blow! "
How did such moods end, we also remember. Therefore, the Victory Day is with tears in our eyes. We say “thank you” to tens of millions of living and dead defenders of the Motherland. We say thank you for our life, for freedom ...
The US Army Special Forces, better known to our readers as Green Berets, are special units of the US Army destined for RDO, guerrilla warfare in the rear of the enemy, counter-guerrilla and counter-terrorist operations and others. The motto of the "green berets" was the slogan "Free from Oppression" (De Oppresso Liber).
And now let's “join” the “green berets” all together. To go at least virtually everything that ordinary candidates are experiencing.
First of all, I will “chill” those who are torn in “ZB” right from school. You go there the road is closed initially. In order to become a candidate in the "ST", you must already be a soldier of the US Land Forces (the condition is mandatory, without any exceptions). Moreover, you must have the obligatory experience of skydiving.
But you are lucky. You are a soldier or a sergeant of the American army, jumped with a parachute and selected to take a qualifying course for special forces. Just three weeks of exhausting humbling and humiliation, sleepless nights, and 10-kilometer crossings, sergeant tests and bullying. Well, and other "merry" army things American special forces.
The first days you are lucky. You fall into the hands of the "eggheads". You write tests, you talk to the ladies from the psychological service. And in the evenings the sergeants "mock" you. Tests, tests, tests ... And each test is a reason to deduct you from the number of candidates. By the way, those famous footage when an American sergeant yells at a soldier is also a test for psychological stability. And the "run" in the bellies of soldiers too. Stress resistance...
Gradually, in a few days, you begin to "drive" on physical training. Just for those who like to compare the load, I’ll give some criteria for the selection of candidates. The candidate must: 80 once wrung out from the floor, make 100 torso lifts from the supine position, 15 pull up on the crossbar (2 min for each exercise). Well, for runners there is a cross. Total 3,2 km. I do not want to run. Over 12 minutes. Otherwise, they will not give more run.
And on the "snack" runners waiting for marches. Number four in four days. The first two days - "unloading". Total 18 kilograms in a backpack, and forward - 10 km. The last "runs" will load the sergeant to 20 kg ... There is nothing to run "empty". A standard - 90 minutes.
But do not think that the "egg heads" got rid of you at this time. No, the tests continue. And the sergeants are bullied in the same way. Only now added more officers. They study, more precisely, research the special training of candidates. Topography, communication, possession weapons, possession of military equipment ...
You are strong, patient, purposeful. You want to become a green beret. Therefore suffered two weeks. Commander's week has come. Each of the candidates suddenly becomes the commander of a real group. They are given a task, and ... go ahead. Gather a team, assign roles, get your orders fulfilled. Himself, all myself. No one will help. And your comrades will just laugh at your references to the statutes and orders of other commanders. And this bastard, your sergeant, with a smirk and a cigarette in his mouth, sits on the sidelines and periodically scares the local fauna with “horse neighing” from your teams and commanding decisions.
After three weeks, the most critical part of your tests comes. "Eggheads," sergeants, commanders render their verdict. Whether you are in the chosen profession or not. Any of them can "stall" your further career. Further tests. Like at school. In all subjects. And ratings ...
Last build. The ranks of those who stood for three weeks in this system have thinned significantly. Approximately 40-45% left.
Those who left, no one blames. You stayed. You won! So, now your way to the rangers training battalion. And on your chest you have the first reward. The sign of the passage of the initial training of the Rangers.
And here he is, the holy of holies of American special forces. Fort Bragg! Here you have to stay from 13 to 45 weeks. This is where you will pass the green beret qualification course. Here you have to become a specialist. And not a specialist "broad profile."
The training course at Fort Bragg is divided in the same way as at the selection stage into three phases. In the first weeks you study the basic military disciplines. From topography to the ability to command a group. The course is quite serious. You get knowledge and skills of a sergeant in a short time.
Practically during this period, you understand that any of your comrades, like you yourself, may well now become a quite good army sergeant and serve in the "normal" American army without tension. In addition, you and your commanders define your "hobbies." Simply put, your military specialization is determined.
The most important stage, in my opinion, comes later. You become a specialist. Someone - shooter-sniper. Someone is a signalman. Someone is a sapper. Someone - "doctor". Chase on the chosen specialty mercilessly. If you really wanted to become a sniper - be just a sniper, and not an excellent shooter. If the sapper, then no worse than an army specialist. And even better. And so everywhere.
However, this does not cancel classes in other disciplines. Advanced sergeant courses in all types of training! Naturally, everything is against the background of constant intensive physical training. Plus, marches through the day and daily classes in hand-to-hand combat.
By the way, with the physical training in the "green berets" everything is in order. The myth of the Americans as weaklings does not pass here. Strong, trained and trained fighters. Owning the most modern martial arts and any weapon.
The course ends. There comes a time that is known to many specialists as passing exams, for example, for a maroon takes or something like that. The time when you get the title of fighter of a special unit. And you can call yourself no longer a candidate for the “ZB”, but a “green beret”.
Temporary teams are formed from the cadets to perform specific combat missions. A regular team is 12 people of different types of specialists. Depending on the task, the commander completes the team with the necessary specialists. By the way, exactly the same groups are the basis of the mouth of the "green berets" in combat units. In the 5 company of such groups.
In the center of North Carolina is the Yoharri National Forest. It is there that the first “combat” operation of the newly-reclaimed “ZB” takes place. In fact, this event is held after each release and has the code name "Robin Sage".
The tasks are set in such a way that all candidates can show all the skills and abilities acquired during their studies. Now the backpack is real. With real gear and real weight. 40-45 kilograms. Now you need to blow up real objects. Now you need to work in the rear of the enemy, who not only knows that you are near, but is very much looking forward to meeting.
A few days of survival in the rear of the enemy, the implementation of the combat mission. Finally the day you have been waiting for so long comes. You first get the green beret! And on your chest appears a sign of "green berets". Well, a soldier is always a soldier, on his shoulder tattoo.
By the way, given that the majority of readers of the Military Review have already had or were related to the army, and far from ordinary, I’ll have a little bit to cool this category as well. Officers and warrant officers (although there is no such thing in the American army, something remotely resembling warrant officers called warrant officers) are trained the same way. The only privilege is special groups for officers. The rest is the same as the soldiers. With the same loads.
Do you think that your adventures of today are over, and the good four-legged sofa friend can take the new green beret into his arms? In vain. You still have to go 6-month courses of foreign languages. Depending on the region where you will serve. Which group will you get into? Yes, and your place of service will be strictly regulated. For example, do you look like a resident of Southeast Asia or the Pacific? Then serve you on Okinawa. And learn Japanese. Want to stay in Fort Bragg? No problem. Learn Spanish and get ready to fight in West Africa or the Caribbean. Europe? German language and service in Stuttgart.
At the beginning of the article I wrote that one should not underestimate the enemy. And what our fighters in Syria are facing today is not dekhkans and traders. These are people trained by graduates of Fort Bragg. Trained, trained and highly motivated enemies. That is why victories are not easy there.
And some frivolity in presenting the path of a simple "green beret" is not caused by disregard of the enemy. Simply, as many commentators on the above article clearly noted, we beat them, beat them and will beat them. And because we are not weaker. And because we are fighting for the Motherland, and not for money. The soldier's gut can't be changed ...
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