I also jedi mind-tricked myself at selection. I looked at those that quit as killed off and only the strong survived. The excuses never run dry; especially for the quitters.
Regardless of your selection exit strategy, it still sucks. After facing defeat, it is normal for guys to go hide in a hole and never want to come out. Self pity reigns supreme for months on end while you try to rationalize your failure as a human being. I know this because I was once a 1. If you would like a background, click here. And by all means you should go into your dark hole, cry it out a few times and have your pity party!
Get it out of your system. Because what happens next will define who you are more than anytime before. If Battlefield Airmen selection did not go as planned, its time to pivot and drive to another goal. You have to now find a way to re-invigorate that drive somewhere else. I did. I also know many that have done the same. My advice is take a few months off after selection to cool down, chill out and regain that desire if you are inclined to head back and slowly ramp up training again to come back stronger than ever.
Be a good teammate but know what you can and cannot do. Peaches tried to be a good teammate and learned that standards are for everyone. It leads to more failure. Reset, refocus, learn, try again. Aaron, Peaches and Brian take stroll down a poop covered memory lane. Avoid cows on the DZ. You also did instructor things. I'm sure you saw tons of people fail at Weapons School. I mean that's the name of the game and the Weapons School. Everything is built to test your absolute limit and with the expectation that you are probably going to fail, you are definitely going to fail it.
Some of the desired learning objectives because each scenario was built to ensure that you learn certain objectives. But I think it's, doing this is kind of a morality thing as well, but doing the right thing when no one's looking right and how does that translate into failure? It's, yeah. I failed. Now what? Get it going again. Favorite cadre impressions were watching a team come together. It allows the Cadre to give a motivated squared away team a wider lane.
The most rewarding cadre experience is seeing someone struggle to success. Your composure and integrity are being evaluated by the cadre. It could make the difference between a setback and elimination. Selection is not the place to not worry about how others perceive you. How you perceive yourself after a failure will ultimately determine your level of success.
Realized it was just a bad day and passed the rehack. Trent almost failed out of Military Free Fall. Took every single jump allowed to pass. Kicked his feet on all of his exits until his instructor gave up correcting him.
Did they tell you that you were going to fail? Like when you were meters in or whatever. They're like this guy is really cutting it close. Like hurry up or we did, we did claps or just something to tell you. I had been cutting it close the entire time when it came to finning. Like listen, I'm living that life man. This is par for the course when it came to finning. Yeah that was, that was just like, Oh well he'll, he'll squeak it through, he always has before.
Not so much that day. Brian failed his first attempt at drown proofing in dive school. Was willing to wake up with water in his lungs when he re-took the test. The first step to being able to learn from failure os being honest with yourself. Trent goes on to tell an incredibly embarrassing CQB story. Kinda wish it would have been edited out of the podcast. Being honest promotes trust in the team which is crucial for team success. We all have. Factor it into your planning. There just happened to be at least one guy who was able to salvage the wreckage.
Well and no plan survives first contact. Adapt and overcome. And I think it's important also to just kind of point out you react to the things that you are aware of at the time. So there are a lot of people that can armchair quarterback and be like you read a book or whatever. You're like, Oh Whoa, why did they just do this or whatever after the fact.
And the reality is if you're the dude on the ground, you see what you see and you hear what you hear, whether the radio contact didn't come in later on you'll like, Oh that's what they said. Oh buddy of yours will tell you like, Oh crap, I totally didn't even hear that on coms.
Like there are of times when I was doing, the team leader thing, you have a couple of radios, you're trying to talk to another person that's here in real life and you're the airplane, the other team, and you're just like trying to figure out what's what you miss, things that are going on and other people catch it.
So once you get that full story and it's in a book or whatever, it's easy to be like, Oh they should've just went this way instead of this way. It's easy to say, but that dude, maybe he missed something. Maybe he wasn't able to see you. It was dark whatever the, the fact is. So just saying that, because we're not trying to like armchair quarterback or sharp shoot anybody that did anything, but you will fail and you have to definitely think about what you're going to do in that moment.
And that's why it's important to just talk about this thing like we're talking about right now. Failing because you're going to continue to fail.
And if you're in a deployed situation and things are on like lives are on the line stuff, then you have to continue to move forward and you can't be like, Oh man, I totally screwed up that, that calm with the aircraft or whatever. I sounded like an idiot. You don't have time to like think about that stuff. You have to keep on moving forward.
Let me just end it pretty much on that note right there, I was going to talk about a little bit success and that kind of stuff. But let's leave it at failure and we won't talk about success. We'll say it for a future episode. Next up. So you guys got anything else? Final parting words here.
If you don't try then you automatically fail. But if you at least try and fail, then that you've at least tried to do something and it doesn't matter what the armchair quarterbacks going to say. At the end of the day, the people are going to say what they're going to say. But overall, what matters is how you internalize that failure. And if you make yourself better from the failure, so continue to learn from it.
Don't dwell on those little failures that you may have had in the past just learn, push on and over time you'll develop a, you'll develop like Peaches saying you get over a lot quicker. Your feet and knees will propel you through the pool.
The fourth task consists of flips and mask recovery. Once the travel is complete the student will begin bobbing again. Within five bobs you will accomplish a front flip underwater. Within another five bobs you will accomplish a backwards flip underwater. Once both flips are complete, a mask is thrown to the bottom of the pool.
The student will go to the bottom, pick up the mask with his teeth, and complete five bobs. After all tasks are complete, the instructor will call "time". The safety will assist the bobber out of the water. To successfully complete this exercise the student must accomplish all of the above tasks in sequence and without panicking.
If unable, he will be scored unsatisfactory for the exercise. Week 8 and 9: Same as week 7. Procedure: The mask and snorkel exercise begins with all students at one end of the pool. The instructor will then throw or place the student's mask and snorkel a specified distance from the student. This exercise is accomplished one or two students at a time. On the command "go", the student will leave the surface of the pool and swim underwater to the location of his mask and snorkel.
Upon reaching them, he will place the snorkel between his legs and position his mask on his face. Once positioned, he will clear the mask of water, retaining a small amount of air. He will then make a controlled ascent to the surface with the snorkel in his mouth and left arm extended above his head with clenched fist.
Once on the surface he will clear the snorkel and give the "ok" hand signal to the evaluating instructor. He will ensure he is facing the instructor and immediately demonstrate that his mask and snorkel are clear by looking up at the instructor and breathing through the snorkel.
A small amount of water in the mask is permissible as long as it does not exceed the top of the nose indents. While on the surface, the student will not break the mask or snorkel seal until the exercise has been graded and he is permitted to do so by the instructor. This exercise will be scored unsatisfactory if the student surfaces prior to clearing the mask or fails to satisfactorily perform in any of the above listed areas. Buddy Breathing: Equipment: Face masks, one snorkel per 2 man team, T-shirt, booties.
Procedure: This exercise is conducted in the deep end of the pool. Students will enter the water when directed by the instructor. On the command "start", they will place their faces into the water and begin to survival float while buddy breathing from one snorkel.
During the exercise period, the students will maintain control of each other with one hand. With the other hand they will maintain control and pass the snorkel between each other. A student should try to consider his buddy's limited air supply and take only one breath before passing the snorkel back. During this exercise the students will breath only through the snorkel. At no time will they remove their heads from the water and breath from the surface. The exercise period ends on the command "time".
To satisfactorily complete this exercise, each student must keep his face in the water during the entire exercise period. He must remain calm, maintain control of himself, his buddy, and the snorkel. The student will be given one warning for unsatisfactory performance and on the next occurrence will be scored unsatisfactory for the exercise.
Pool harassment is added as a more intense form of buddy breathing.
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