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01-22-2011, 11:41 PM
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I like to think that Joe Indoctrination is similar to the SAS, lots of grueling physical exercise that strips the recruit to their base personality, weapons and navigation training and lots of psychological tests.
I was watching a documentary on the Australian SAS recently and they made each recruit complete a 2 page essay on who they were.
All the recruits thought it was pretty stupid but then all the psychological evaluators and especially the cadre instructors used those essays to really grill those guys. They explained the aim is to strip a man down to his primordial personality free of bravado, false screens etc and really show who he is underneath. Also they wanted to see if things in their history would cause security issues and the like down the road.
It was interesting that some guys were cut even after completing all the physical tasks simply because they carried an air of arrogance.
Yeah, Eric Haney's book "Inside Delta Force" describes Delta's Selection & Training and it's very similar to the SAS system... probably because it's based on the British SAS.
I completely agree with you.
If the Joes are supposed to be a Tier 1 Special Operations Unit - and possibly even more elite than Delta or DevGru because they select from all the Branches - it seems that they would have to have a pretty extensive Selection/Evaluation phase, and then a pretty strenuous training phase to make sure everyone was up to speed on "the Joe way of doing everything" and operating all the Joe equipment. Plus, just learning to know/work with the other Joes - if they're anything like Delta or DevGru, they would operate in pretty small teams.
So Delta S&T takes around 6 months... I suppose it's probably pretty similar for DevGru (does anyone know for sure?) - I would imagine that Joe S&T would take at least 6 months before they were assigned to the active Roster. It could even take longer because of all the Joes' weird equipment and mission parameters. It sort of like saying: "Yeah, you guys are supposed to be the premier counter-Terrorism/Special Ops Unit in the U.S. AND be able to do just about any job in the military in any situation".
Army Special Forces Training can take up to 18 months...
It might not be unreasonable for the Joes to be in "the training pipeline" for a couple of years.
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