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Anonymous
Hello /fit/s!

I'll be (hopefully) graduating college next year with a C.S. degree, and I was looking into the USAF as a career. I'm pretty certain I could get into the Officer Training school with my intelligence and credentials and become an officer, but beyond that I'm getting a little hazy. Basically, I don't want a desk job, and I actually want to be out in the field. I've been looking at the USAF Special Operations Command. They have units that go in first and take control of enemy airfields and use their computer equipment to guide US forces in. That's definitely something I would want to do.

The problem here is that to get into the SpecOps, fitness levels have to be through the god damn roof. I'm actually fairly in shape right now. I was pretty fat for the longest time, but recently started going to the gym and lost about 50 pounds this past year. I can lift and jog enough to get by. I'm looking and feeling a lot better, but I'm definitely nowhere near the level of fitness I would have to be. So, I come to you, the internet:

To even be considered for the test program, you have to be able to do this:
11chin-ups in 1 minute
75 sit-ups in 2 minutes
64 push-ups in 2 minutes
run 3 miles within 22:30 minutes
swim and remain underwater for 25 meters
swim 1500 m within 34 minutes

The whole thing has be completed within less than an hour, or something like that. These are just the minimums too, I would actually have to be much higher than that. At the actual test program, it gets much harder, like multiple 6 mile runs with 40lbs on, but I'll cross that bridge if I get to it.
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>> Anonymous
the obvious recommendation is to do what you'll be tested on.

do pullups, sit-ups and push ups after doing long runs and swims. work on lung endurance. etc.

crossfit is another good program to add in. I would recommend doing both. a typical day may look like morning jog/swim, some situps and pushups. 5-8 hrs later, crossfit warmup, crossfit WOD. with a year of training like this it's doubtful you'll be unable to kick major ass in general fitness tests.

adding MMA, jujitsu, judo, etc. training to that list after a few months probably wouldn't hurt either. just depends on how much time you have to dedicate yourself to fitness.
>> Anonymous
chAir Force is probably not the best choice if you're looking for an exciting job in the field, especially if you want to be an officer. Officers direct the violence, and enlisted dish it out.
>> Anonymous
if you didnt go to the academy your air force career will be crap and attaining any significant rank near impossible
>> Anonymous
if you think those requirements are hard. you are not spec ops material.
>> Anonymous
Protip: Find what is considered a maxed out score, and aim for that. Only losers shoot for the minimum.

>>95117
Thats excellent advice. Everything I was going to recommend. But another thing I would cycle in is some powerlifting, maybe once a week. Raw strength gets transferable to everything.
>> Anonymous
Granted I have a deskjob in the Air Force (I'm a 3c071), but I do work with some SOF dudes as their comm guy. The Air Force SOF have some of the highest requirements for physical fitness because their personnel have to be ready to be embedded with any other services SOF unit, whether they are combat controllers or pararescue or whatever.

Crossfit is a great idea. A lot of the SOF guys around here do it to stay in shape. You really have to be ready to push yourself, so when you train, make sure it's intense.

>>95118
How about you shut the fuck up? The only people allowed to call it the Chair Force are the people in it, like me. Lazy, selfish fucks like yourself don't get to make fun of any service.
>> Anonymous
MARSOC has a minimum requirement of 285 PFT.

Which is close to an 18 minute 3 mile, 20 chin ups, and 100 sit ups in 2 minutes.

As well as first class swimmer qualifications and expert marksmanship.

Chairshit does not have the highest reqs.
>> Anonymous
>>95849

MARSOC is the joke of the specops community.
>> Anonymous
>>95851
Lighten up, they're the new kids on the block. We have a small group of MARSOF guys here, and they some of them are a little more out of shape than other services' SOF dudes. But they have the newest toys, and they are decent guys.
>> Anonymous
>>95849

Those are the minimums for becoming an officer as well.

>>95851

That's probably because so many people don't think they should exist (within the USMC and outside of it). There is a reason they didn't until recently but it's kind of funny how all the services have SOCOM and we have been running Force Recon outside of its command for ages. I guess it goes back to special operations capable and "actually" designated forces. Either way you're a cunt and I lol at your presence.
>> Anonymous
>>95849
I assume your part of a MARSOF unit, with some AFSOF guys attached to it. Otherwise, you don't know what the fuck your talking about, so shut up. If you want to get into a dick measuring contest over which service is better, go to /k/. But shut the fuck up about Chairforce. Fuck it, the next person that says that to my face is getting slapped. And they have you to thank.
>> Anonymous
Shit OP, you have a CS degree? Dude, if you wash out of SOF training, you know where you will end up, right? You will be an AF Comm Officer. You might as well find a cop to shot you. You will hate life as a Comm Officer, I guaran-fucking-tee it. I'm an enlisted comm dude (3c071), and I pity the LTs that go through our Squadron.
>> Anonymous
lol @ Chairforce

btw, you might as well go with another branch of service if you're not looking for a desk job, because if you don't make the cut for Air Force SOF, then you'll most certainly get shafted into a desk job or something else unexciting, seeing as the Air Force has the largest collection of relatively unexciting and safer jobs by far (hence the name "Chairforce").

As a general rule of thumb, joining the military under any service branch with the sole premise of getting into SpecOps is placing yourself at a huge risk of getting fucked over.
>> Anonymous
>>96008
>As a general rule of thumb, joining the military under any service branch with the sole premise of getting into SpecOps is placing yourself at a huge risk of getting fucked over.

Extreme Fucking Truth.
>> Anonymous
>You will hate life as a Comm Officer, I guaran-fucking-tee it.

Meh. With the exception of aircrew (don't get me started on those bastards) aren't Air Force officers miserable by default anyways?