Reminds me of a certain Navy Seal…

Still difficult jobs. Lot of guys i know go FF/LE route after they get out. If you can handle those fields you’ve got a good shot at making it in SF.

Unbelievably difficult jobs... 95% of ppl wouldn't even try to comprehend what they witnessed

Thanks mate, happy to help 🫡

Thanks bro 🫡

Definitely all ones that could have made the list as well.

If you could boil it down, distill it and sell it, we’d make a lot of money

@@ValhallaVFT surely recommending this video to my friends aspiring to join Indian sf

My dad’s best friend was Riley Lott, NCOIC of Mike force for 7 years, and other was Jim Day, Mac-v. I’ve got quite a few cool gifts like that form them over the years.

@@ValhallaVFT Lott was a full blooded Indian from the Northwestern tribe; he wanted to die a warriors death and Captain Mike (ret. LTG Michael Canavan), told Lott to get his company ready for a 30 day combat operation and to take the kid (me). I’d been at A-401 for three days and all ofc a sudden I’m going on an op WTF over.Paul, weapons, said to me, “son you look a little shook up I’m assuming you graduated from the Special Forces Training Group?’ I shook my head yes. Paul took me out to the perimeter of A-401 and handed me a M-79 and told me to hit the barrel out in the barbed wire, no problem and next the M-60 to load and hit the same target, no problem and then he said “no problem you’re ready!” Capt Mike was attempting to have me tested to see how I would handle the stress of combat. When I arrived none of my teammates would talk to me in fact no one acknowledged my existence. After the 30 days during which there were three contacts not worth writing home about. After we returned to A-401, Don Phuc, I took a shower and shaved my beard off and entered the team room. All of a sudden Paul handed me a cold beer and said welcome to the Mike Force. Apparently Lott told them that I was solid during each contact and the team had nothing to worry about; I now had a reputation. On a team your rank only meant what you were paid each month your rep was everything. I simply watched Lott and did what ever he did. Lott was cool, he was in shorts and flip flops most of the time and without a shirt. I had learned from the best. I only wished that it had been tougher on me for I only had one major battle. An NVA regiment using a human wave attack tried to overrun our perimeter. The thing that saved us was an OP/LP fired off a six found burst. Greg, at this point Lott’s year four was up and I took command of his 43rd Company with 112 Cambodians, Greg Skogland was his replacement (SF Medic). Greg put out the candle with his hand and shouted “show time” and I ran to my area of concern the South and West sides of the perimeter. When I arrived I could see the flash ofc a line of AK-47’s running toward me. I immediately called our HQ, B-40 FWD inside the B-43 compound. Maj Bridgewater was on the other end and told me to be calm. I replied, “I am calm but I need a Fire Mission, TRP House Rock car (we used objects rather then numbers, number could be fucked up but not objects , troops in open, fire for effect, danger close, I will adjust. It seamed like only minutes before three rounds hit from 155’s located inside of B-43. That stopped the NVA in their tracks but a few continued but were cut down just shy of the perimeter (the closest one NVA soldier got was 32 steps from the perimeter, that gut was bad ass. The NVA left behind a blocking force to hold us down as their main body returned to Nui (mountain) Cam their safe place.from start to finish the thing lasted about three hours and aside from 10 to 20 minutes of contact I never had a major battle. But Maj Bridgewater put m\e in for a Silver Star but our S-1 CPT Southworth told me that it would be downgraded to a BS with V or an ARCOM with V because I wasn’t an officer nor wounded. I told him I didn’t care I only thought throughout the entire contact that no one would be killed because I fucked up (we has one indig WIA, one of the OP/LP’s was hit on his return to the perimeter. It was downgraded to a Bronze Star with V, not a problem because I was more proud of my CIB which I earned on my first contact with father NVA during my first combat op with Lott. Lott and I stayed in touch throughout the years, I was crushed by his death from stomach cancer. Lott was the third teammate to succumb to stomach cancer after David Soucie and Greg Skogland Fuchs Agent Orange; so far I’m OK but I was just a tourist whirled Lott and the others had multiple tours. I miss all of them.

@@Marka2401 Thank you for sharing your story, sir. Truly a privilege to read.

I haven’t directly but I have a lot of buddies who went guard after being active. They seem to like it from what I’ve hear, but I don’t have a ton of information unfortunately.

I’m a currently active navy sailor, and being with national guard that was my original purpose before I joined the navy but unfortunately the navy isn’t the army for me at least it’s a great branch but I feel too much like a soldier than a sailor

@@ValhallaVFT thanks for the information!

@@hardknoxboii6670 Yeah being a soldier definitely seems better than being a sailor. My friends in the army seemed to have a better experience than I did. I also really hated ships lol.

Brent Tucker started his sf journey with 20th group then went on to CAG.

Well I’m retired now so technically that’s the type of operator I am too.

Have a video on exactly that, joining SF over 30. Check that out on my thoughts on it.

Hahaha. She’s a munchkin cat, and ya didn’t notice her photo bombing the video till I watched it back lol.

Statistically that would be a fair way to have done the video lol

​​@@ValhallaVFTwhen we started pre-BUD/S (class 301) David Goggins was a training chief and gave this big speech, and at the very end said "All of you are here because you proved you can do it. All of you can make it. Will you? Mm probably not." So now whenever I see a video about "Are you SOCOM material?" I just hear Goggins saying "Mm probably not." Lol, great video though man.

@@DisDatK9 I mean the reality is he’s not wrong, it’s a very niche group of men who can do it. Not for the feint of heart as those of us who’ve done it know.

​​​@ValhallaFirearmsTraining It's true. The guys may not like Goggins' all that much but gotta admit, he's one tough son of a bitch. Had a hell of an impact on myself and every kid there. He was the primary motivator for a ton of us who enlisted back in the 2010's.

Just join they’ll get you ready

Yeah, I go to the gym 4x a week and boxing 2-3 times a week. Goes outside and can go on a hike alone for several hours, family calls me insane while it’s what I love to do. Going into military next August as well 🤘🏻

I did. So try again on that moron.

Good backround for going SF.