As an 18D for 22 years I was thoroughly amused by new guys thinking oh he's just a medic.

Had an old First Sergeant who’s favorite saying was “a good soldier never misses an opportunity to shut the fuck up” 💀 great advice and is really much deeper than it sounds lol

I love the saying "The wisest man in the room is not the one with all the answers but the one with all the questions"

"Don't know shit about shit." Advice to keep in mind as an older man too. Open mind and learning works no matter what you are doing or when you are doing it.

They should be showing this video in our firefighter academy. Well done.

You know a lot of these "rules" can apply to civilian workplaces too.

Show up, have humility and Be a sponge. I’ve heard those word when I first went into my infantry unit.. Its how it should be even in the civilian sector. Because no matter how much we know, there is always something we don’t know. Always room for error and learning through those errors.

This is solid, for any kind of new guy time anywhere 🤙🇺🇸

Stepping into the world of being an NCO, I held a few things to heart, one of them was that “I will never be above bitch work” even as a fresh E5 I’d police the range or training area, take the trash out in the office, sweep and mop the cof, other ncos in other platoons hate that shit, and my joes are like “oh shit SGT such n such remembers where he came from.” I’ve always said that when you do the same dumb shit your guys are doing, they’ll be more willing to suffer beside you

Damn that hierarchy thing struck me. It’s also very important to include that THEiY WILL TEST YOU. They will bully you, make fun of you, make you do shitty things etc. You will have a much better time when you realise that it’s just a test, they don’t bully just to bully, they test you to see if you are a good guy that can get along with. I’m the new guy at a pretty tough factory-job and man they test me. Especially one woman she is just CRUEL, but I fortunately know it’s just a test so I can handle it

It was my birthday on Saturday, got a weight set as a present really stoked about it

Hey man i signed an 18x contact and I’m shipping out May 24th. I can’t thank you enough for giving me the insight to this job so that i could do an honest assessment and choose the right path for me. I really think this is going to be a great step in my life. Thank you brother.

Dude. That is life lessons for being a new guy anywhere.

Hey man, just wanted to say that I appreciate your channel. I'll be starting at my dream agency as a new paramedic next month, and I'm very thankful to have stumbled across your videos. Your advice feels really applicable to my situation, as well as to many other endeavors in life. Not everybody is lucky enough to have these things explained to them in advance, and I think your channel is doing a great service in bringing people up to speed. I hope you keep doing what you're doing because you're helping tons of people achieve success.

When I was in school, before heading to my first ship, I got the best advice--don't talk, just listen. In our case, we got promotions out of school. Our instructor said--you're going to have rank, but the people you outrank have been doing it longer than you, so listen to them. It really worked out great. 30 years later, I can see very junior people at work who were never given that kind of advice, they stand out pretty vividly. Having said that, there is also a difference between realizing you're the new person and you have a certain roll, and putting on a crown of thorns and carrying a cross on your back up and down the hallways.

Dude congrats on your baby! I’m deployed and just had a daughter in December!

Buck do a video on workouts you guys did when you were deployed! I’ve always been curious on what workouts special forces guys do once they are already on a team for a while. Thank you sir!

This is spot on and the best I've seen it all explained!!!

Bucks thumbnails get better every video 😂 thanks for the insight buck! Can't wait to get my hands on the the 18x contract 🙏🙏🙏

Please make a video about poor leadership, and how to handle poor leadership. Also a video about 19th & 20th group NGSF “try-one” program for prior service.

I was not SF/ODA. I did recovery in the Army. So I rescued people in mine fields. You need the three “L’s.” Look, listen and learn. Then, you can go forward in anything you want

My goal is to go in SF as an officer. I would say that by applying what Buck says about being a new guy, and his advice, it would be best to stand back for a little and watch how the team does things, SOPs etc. And do not try to force your way in because of rank. Oh and buy them beer. Awesome content Buck!

Go thru life with the attitude, heart, motivation and humbleness of a white belt. Thats what my martial arts used say every single day.

Man everything you said I take into my civilian job as a fire fighter and with 8.5 years on the job. Being in kind of a transitional phase from New guy to a more senior (not senior) guy within a young dept. I have taken the saying of don't talk but listen when your around the older guys. You will learn so much that way. And to always volunteer to help out with whatever needs to be accomplished. Thank you Buck

This goes so much deeper than becoming a green bean. This applies to being a new guy at the police department or fire department too.

Buck - THAT was the best advice you could give a new guy! It was true when I got to my first team land it'll be true 20 years from now. Great video!

Even though I can’t join the military after a car wreck I still love your videos and try to apply your advice for my life

Just started training before I make the commitment for SF weapons sergeant, your vids have been extremely helpful. Thanks man

Absolute truth. This should be the way things are done in the civilian world as well.

Thanks for the reality check. I'm going to send this to my son. He's just finished SERE (@Q Course) and on Monday he begins MOS training.

I want to be in the 75 ranger regiment then go to Delta Force selection but lets be honest I'm probably gonna end up in the hospital going through delta force selection

Every video you put out gets better and better. Good stuff bro...

I think that the best thing he said was to "always try to find a way to improve" that's some real shit and can be very motivational for me while I am having such a dark and hard time right now.

I learned all this from my old army infantry days, before the old school Vietnam vets left the service. I had some really good leaders.

I remember watching when you only had 1k subs well done for growing this much

So glad I found FNG channel! Everything you said are facts!

Much needed video! Thanks Pro Rogers!!

Love your channel, great information, you have to be able to laugh at yourself, keep your mouth shut, that will open your ears making you a better sponge for learning, one should always be humble, there will always be someone who knows more than you, pride will lead to downfall, this universally applicable no matter where you are in life, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, God Bless You, God Bless All

vids you make really help give me an idea of what i'm gonna get into. Hopefully i can get the selection packet soon! just gotta finish this deployment

The day just got that much better👊

Buck, do you think you could do a video on your ODA Commanders? The good, the bad, how the team saw them, and why?

Bro! That’s awesome, you doing shout outs!! My wife got me a shout out from Miltos Yerolemou, Syrio Forel from Game of Thrones, sure it wasn’t the “big stars” but it was such a morale booster on deployment. Keep up the awesome work Buck! 🔨🔨

respect your support. let that ego go. force multiply

Wow I've learned all these things from working in the kitchen good shit

Very informative if I was several years younger LOL!! I like how you talked about "Humility". That definitely would expand outside of the team room when operating with/ training foreign militaries IMO.

I do have a hard time keeping my mouth shut especially when it comes to people attacking me personally so I guess I can't hack oh well I give up. Moving on.

Could you do a video on what it’s like being attached to an sf group

My boi buck out here doing the lords work

A new day! A great new video! Thank you for your work!

If any of you aspiring SF live in Maryland Look up heroes of tomorrow ran by Stew Smith. A workout group Monday - Saturday Many of the people meant there went on to selection processes and graduated. Awesome community

I did just that- laid low for a long time. But when I had a volleyball opportunity to burn the Sr 18C, I spiked it hard- team was rollin'

15 years of role playing in the q-course, q-course is schoolhouse level, all be it a high level schoolhouse. ODA guys always said the learning curve on arrival to Group is vertical... Viva La Pineland!

When I reported to my LRSD team back in the late 80's as a shiny new PFC. I was standing in our team room and they were all sitting around BSing. The Plt. Sgt. asked me to introduce myself so I started saying who I was and they all yelled at me "STFU we don't care." That pretty much let me know where I was on the totem pole.

This is a great universal advice, about to get in a new workplace, thank you for this!

I understand that I don't know too much about anything because nobody talks to me but I have to draw conclusions from the constant and consistent experiences that I go through if I don't do that then I don't learn and then I don't grow and then I make the same mistakes over and over again. So while yes I may not know shit completely I do have to take my experiences and learn something otherwise I won't be able to live properly.

If I would have been a American, this man would have me in Green Berets by now. 😎🙂

💪🏼🇺🇸 thank you for your service.

Happy 4th to all my guys at FNG! I abide by the principles as much as I can, but as a civilian in the professional world, it appears I am always alone in this. Civilians everywhere have such a fucking cronie mentality 🤮. Love you guys! ❤

You're amazing, SB.

This is the kind of stuff I wish I heard 20 years ago.

Another point: Team culture varies- and is usually established top down . Your team daddy will make or break you.

Buck, how I wish someone had sat down with me and gone through this drill back in 1974 when I joined my first ODA. I look back and am embarrassed that I could have done much, much better had I not made some of the mistakes that are outlined in this video. If this video is not required viewing for both EM and officers joining the teams, then by golly it ought to be. Fantastic job, and best wishes. A-572, A-575, HQ-5thSFG(A)

FNG uploads. I click, I watch.

Listen to Bick, the loudest one in the room is often the weakest one in the room. So shut your lips and learn. The strongest often speaks last, because he's the first one speaking after gaining all shared perspectives, weighing it against experience, and speaks with purpose when, and only when, all input is in anx he's Isolated all variables. You've already made it to the tip of the spear, earn it again throughevery task (whether Direct Action or latrine duty in all you do, do it to perfection). A blunt spear is still lethal, but not combat effective compared to a sharp tip. Sharpness is found in repetition of training, effectiveness on target, and unit cohesion. Sense of purpose is found on your left and right. In the cinematic words of Leonidas "Earn these shields boys!" Come back with your shields or on them, but everyone goes home or none do. I wasn't CAG but if you are the last pray for the strength to spit upon your enemy and know that they have my boys coming to collect, and were bringing hell and its legendary fire with us! 2/75 B Co JBLM! Side note, in Regiment we trained hard. The training was generally way harder than real-world missions and it will feel like you are pushed to an unattainable standard. You are not training for the perfect or even days of hard difficulty and being sore and tired, you are preparing for the day everything goes to shit. When you take 3, 4, 5+ rounds, have 2 broken arms, fighting with no cover in a minefield (it's happened during GWOT, Gulf War, Vietnam, and it will again). You train to survive that day of days and retaining the strength to ensure you get your brothers home in tow.

This is crazy good info because I'm year 5 and still sweep floors!

I'm surprised I made it through the whole video. I really thought I was going to cut this guy off.

so the reason why you have to be 21 to join SF is because of beer, got it! haha

Man I love the intro music

I strutted around like BMOC when I finished combat engineer training cause I knew I was the shiznit!!!

I appreciate the honesty but like I said before I'm pretty much done with trying to get into the miltary. If I do any sort of career searching or training it will probably be going to college but I'm only doing that if I know for sure that I won't be excessively triggered or if I won't go to the hospital. But I guess the answer to all my problems is just to fight some random weakling off the street but I don't really want to waste my time with that especially if I don't have any previous beef with him.

Great video! Portugal here 🇵🇹

Love the shout out. It would be cool to do 1 per vid for the homies in the desert if people will send names

Well said!!!

Great video! Thanks buck

New guys always suck regardless of military or civilian. Your lack of knowledge of the culture is humbling. Be positive and keep your mouth shut. There is two ways to learn. By mistakes or through mentoring. Ask questions and do what your told. Great video, always positive and inspiring.

Case of Beer for every 1st (Jump, Deployment,Isolation,etc.) Hehehehe

Great advice

Main takeaway: BUY BEER. Real talk, thanks for the great advice!!

Sound advice

Youngling - extra points if you can get some of that for your people.

When people are egotistical the first time showing their presence, do the team guys usually give them a second chance or tend to give them a second shot. I’m an introvert, so I’ve practiced being quiet my whole life 😂.

Best intro yet

I don't think I have any pride to swallow lol. They've pretty much taken it all. I'm just running on hope and fear and fumes.

These are also applicable to regular life.

Great as always, also wanted to ask for any advice you have on getting over hard losses? Just had my first jiu jitsu competition yesterday and got wrecked 😂

Great video as always buck, have you ever got to DS or instruct on selection, if so what was it like to be the "other side of the fence"?

I love to watch ur videos sir

How do you stay hungry for your goals? Great thumbnail btw

This is a awesome video

Can you do a video of how guys train mma in SF wether that be jiu Jitsu, boxing, kickboxing etc.

Yes sir help these guys Get Selected

Stay Humble. Stay Hungry.

Hey Buck I was wondering if Army Rangers get promoted to E-6 just like Green Berets do after completion? Or does anyone know? Tried doing some research on it and couldn't find anything about it

Are you 100% serious about the beer? Even on your first day at your ODA? I’m hopefully leaving on the 31st to be an 18x to hopefully be an 18B. And I just wanna do my best in the Q course and when I am stationed. I loved the video BTW and will keep an eye out for more!

Yep never Drank in the Team Room.....Hehehehe

Hey buck, big fan of your youtube channel and I have a few questions. I am currently a CPL in the national guard promoting next month. I plan to attend OCS after finishing my degree. My questions are: 1. Before becoming eligible to request SFAS at 1LT, does my officer branch effect my ability to go? I.E. if I get pilot, can I still attempt for 18A once I'm eligible? 2. With the roll out of the be ACFT, will they change the SF fitness test to be similar, or still be similar to the old APFT platform (with the addition of pull ups of course.) Thank you so much, I'd love to hear back from you!

Buck we need a video on switching from rangers to sf

Absolutely 100%!

What is swick? I may have misspelled it, when you leave a green baret team

So I just got back from a month of misery known as JRTC. Now I have to ask, do SF go to any CTC rotations or do they have own thing?