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pacusmc

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Don’t know how many people have heard of this guy. He weighed over 300lbs and became a navy seal. Went to both Army Ranger and Air Force TACP school. Also tried out for Delta twice. Held the world record for pull ups. Has also ran a bunch of ultra marathons to raise money for the Specual Operations Warrior Foundation..
Here he is on the Joe Rogan podcast

 
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I do enjoy the Joe Rogan podcast. He had Arian Foster come on once, which was very cool. To make this Canes related, I'd love to hear him talk with Jon Vilma. They could talk about NCs at the U, NFL lifestyle, Bountygate, Roger Goodell, Heather Dinich, etc.
 
OrdunaDrive said:
I do enjoy the Joe Rogan podcast. He had Arian Foster come on once, which was very cool. To make this Canes related, I'd love to hear him talk with Jon Vilma. They could talk about NCs at the U, NFL lifestyle, Bountygate, Roger Goodell, Heather Dinich, etc.
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Rogan doesn't give two shïts about football & is clueless. Jamie would have to mediate a ton. Wouldn't be a good podcast at all
 
So all the military did is send him to schools? If he completed BUDS why would he go to Ranger and TACP school? Did not listen but something does not sound right.
 
rv5869 said:
So all the military did is send him to schools? If he completed BUDS why would he go to Ranger and TACP school? Did not listen but something does not sound right.
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Once you complete SOF for your branch you can go to other schools from other branches if you so choose. He became a seal and wanted to continue challenging himself so he went to army ranger school and so on. He's one of the baddest MF'ers on the planet.
 
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rv5869 said:
So all the military did is send him to schools? If he completed BUDS why would he go to Ranger and TACP school? Did not listen but something does not sound right.
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Why would an sf guy need to ranger school?
Plenty of guys from group go to ranger school.
I remember when I was in and Marines that went to ranger school wore the patch inside the breast pocket cause the Marines don’t allow shoulder patches. (Don’t know if they do know but I doubt it)
This isnt a video about his military service but about overcoming obstacles and going beyond your perceived limits.
There is also some former seals and sf guys that end up re-enlisting to go to Air Force special ops like Pararescue and combat control teams and vice versa.
 
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Haven’t listened, but this guy weighed 300 lb and then completed BUDS successfully and became a Navy SEAL?

First of all, that that means he was a teen or in his twenties and he was pushing 3 bills, lost it, got into good enough shape to qualify to be accepted into the program. I know some of you guys are familiar with this. But just the minimum physical requirements to get into the first phase up in Illinois are not cake.

That in itself is pretty amazing.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Haven’t listened, but this guy weighed 300 lb and then completed BUDS successfully and became a Navy SEAL?

First of all, that that means he was a teen or in his twenties and he was pushing 3 bills, lost it, got into good enough shape to qualify to be accepted into the program. I know some of you guys are familiar with this. But just the minimum physical requirements to get into the first phase up in Illinois are not cake.

That in itself is pretty amazing.
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For those that don’t have the time to listen. This guy became a seal after losing the weight. Had to go through **** week 3 times due to injury and illness. After he was a seal he wanted to raise money after the helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed like 16 seals when they were responding to get Marcus Lutrell out. (Lone survivor guy) He googled the hardest things to do in the world and the Badwater 135 race in the middle of summer in Death Valley popped up. It’s a 135 mile race In temperatures up to 130 F.
The race director told him m he just can’t regsiter unless he runs an ultra marathon. The race director asked where he lived and he said SanDiego.
The race director told him there was a 100 mile race that weekend in SoCal. Without training and weighing 230 at 6’3 he went with his wife a cantine and some myoplex and a box of saltine crackers and I think he finished 3rd while urinating blood, breaking some bones in his feet and covered in his own *****.
He finished 5th in the Kona ultra iron man. He didn’t even have a triathlon bike and rented one the day before the race.
This dude doesn’t play. He broke the world record for most pull ups after failing 2 times and snapping a tendon in his forearm. It’s like over 4K pull ups in 24 hrs
 
pacusmc said:
For those that don’t have the time to listen. This guy became a seal after losing the weight. Had to go through **** week 3 times due to injury and illness. After he was a seal he wanted to raise money after the helicopter crash in Afghanistan that killed like 16 seals when they were responding to get Marcus Lutrell out. (Lone survivor guy) He googled the hardest things to do in the world and the Badwater 135 race in the middle of summer in Death Valley popped up. It’s a 135 mile race In temperatures up to 130 F.
The race director told him m he just can’t regsiter unless he runs an ultra marathon. The race director asked where he lived and he said SanDiego.
The race director told him there was a 100 mile race that weekend in SoCal. Without training and weighing 230 at 6’3 he went with his wife a cantine and some myoplex and a box of saltine crackers and I think he finished 3rd while urinating blood, breaking some bones in his feet and covered in his own *****.
He finished 5th in the Kona ultra iron man. He didn’t even have a triathlon bike and rented one the day before the race.
This dude doesn’t play. He broke the world record for most pull ups after failing 2 times and snapping a tendon in his forearm. It’s like over 4K pull ups in 24 hrs
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Met the guy when I ran San Diego Rock n Roll Marathon 3 years ago. He was at Special Operations Warrior Foundation booth at the race expo. Great guy and inspirational story.
 
I am elated that the Spec Ops community has gotten the respect it deserves, but an unfortunate byproduct are some of these personalities making outrageous claims. 80% of Delta operators are selected from the 75th Ranger Regiment. 100% of DEVGRU (SeAL Team 6) selectees are from the Teams, same with MARSOC and the Marines. Are their instances where a SeALS or two will be assigned to a special detachment in conjunction with Delta? Sure, but they'd certainly be from Team 6, so unless he claims to be a member of that, too, it sounds very fishy. And, even in that case, if he were, I'd say there's only about a 20% chance he's being truthful. As for him being a special recruit to audition to join Army Delta, despite being in the Navy, if that is his claim, I'd say 1%.
 
Cane Dynasty said:
I was 18 Echo.

I'm very interested in how one "tries out" for Delta.

lmfao
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I was a critical skills operator in Marine Spec Ops Command...you do try out of Delta...they have an assessment and selection process and they take spec ops service members from other services as well. My chief went down that rabbit hole and took the blue pill...dude disappeared from the face of this earth. Obviously, there is much that we can't talk about on here concerning the task organization of such units, but you know this stuff anyway being an 18 Echo.

Thanks for your service btw...What group were you with? My MARSOC team/company deployed with 7th SF Group & 3rd SF Group to AFG back in 2009-2010. 7th Group had a bunch of Boriqua's and Cubans that were crazy dudes, I had a blast. Very professional and proficient group of warriors. They moved the HQ down to Homestead, FL after that deployment...can only imagine those dudes running amok in Miami ;)
 
simplycanes said:
I am elated that the Spec Ops community has gotten the respect it deserves, but an unfortunate byproduct are some of these personalities making outrageous claims. 80% of Delta operators are selected from the 75th Ranger Regiment. 100% of DEVGRU (SeAL Team 6) selectees are from the Teams, same with MARSOC and the Marines. Are their instances where a SeALS or two will be assigned to a special detachment in conjunction with Delta? Sure, but they'd certainly be from Team 6, so unless he claims to be a member of that, too, it sounds very fishy. And, even in that case, if he were, I'd say there's only about a 20% chance he's being truthful. As for him being a special recruit to audition to join Army Delta, despite being in the Navy, if that is his claim, I'd say 1%.
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They do have their own A&S process for Delta...really it's for JSOC bc Delta is but one sub element under their task organization. Don't know if the dude is lying or not, but I'm interested in how he slightly grazed the topic of having issues with his command and team members throughout his career. Doesn't seem like a dude would get endorsed by his command to attend such an elite A&S process being such a problematic personality.
 
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simplycanes said:
I am elated that the Spec Ops community has gotten the respect it deserves, but an unfortunate byproduct are some of these personalities making outrageous claims. 80% of Delta operators are selected from the 75th Ranger Regiment. 100% of DEVGRU (SeAL Team 6) selectees are from the Teams, same with MARSOC and the Marines. Are their instances where a SeALS or two will be assigned to a special detachment in conjunction with Delta? Sure, but they'd certainly be from Team 6, so unless he claims to be a member of that, too, it sounds very fishy. And, even in that case, if he were, I'd say there's only about a 20% chance he's being truthful. As for him being a special recruit to audition to join Army Delta, despite being in the Navy, if that is his claim, I'd say 1%.
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No one knows how delta gets selected. Nor does anyone know what the physical standards are, how evlotuons are graded or timed etc..
Have never seen any official DOD numbers stating where delta is selected from. Most of his stuff Is from books by former delta guys with pen names to hide their identity Dalton Fury. Some of those numbers might change from generation to generation based on who gets picked. Given the low numbers of navy seals I get the 1%. But he never says he made it in.
 
pacusmc said:
Why would an sf guy need to ranger school?
Plenty of guys from group go to ranger school.
I remember when I was in and Marines that went to ranger school wore the patch inside the breast pocket cause the Marines don’t allow shoulder patches. (Don’t know if they do know but I doubt it)
This isnt a video about his military service but about overcoming obstacles and going beyond your perceived limits.
There is also some former seals and sf guys that end up re-enlisting to go to Air Force special ops like Pararescue and combat control teams and vice versa.
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No patches (officially), but we have our own breast insignia now for MARSOC similar to the trident for the seals...wasn't the case when I was with the unit, but then again, we rarely wore our Marine Cammies while deployed. We were either in Afghan tri-colors with no insignia or patches, or civilian working attire.
 
MotoSniper said:
I was a critical skills operator in Marine Spec Ops Command...you do try out of Delta...they have an assessment and selection process and they take spec ops service members from other services as well. My chief went down that rabbit hole and took the blue pill...dude disappeared from the face of this earth. Obviously, there is much that we can't talk about on here concerning the task organization of such units, but you know this stuff anyway being an 18 Echo.

Thanks for your service btw...What group were you with? My MARSOC team/company deployed with 7th SF Group & 3rd SF Group to AFG back in 2009-2010. 7th Group had a bunch of Boriqua's and Cubans that were crazy dudes, I had a blast. Very professional and proficient group of warriors. They moved the HQ down to Homestead, FL after that deployment...can only imagine those dudes running amok in Miami ;)
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19th SF Group Camp Williams.

Thanks to you as well even if you are a jarhead. :)
 
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