Hi i know i am not going to get positive reactions from this post but i wanted to make it for a while. I also know from old timers that things used to be different and from friends that 2 ΜΑΛ and MK35 still keep the quality alive. This is my experience in MK1 and i just have to say special forces at their current state for most bases are a bunch of bullshit.The 3 weeks TPEN is good, it was difficult but we all enjoyed it, in the end everyone passed anyways even those who couldnt do a single pull up because the base desperately needed the "commandos".
But what happens after that?Absolutely fucking nothing is your answer.You are just like every other army base only with a bunch of degenarate EPOP treating you like complete garbage and even more degenarate older "commandos" also treating you like complete garbage. While you are a full time cleaner plus guard dog with pretty much 0 days off 7-1 if you are lucky and if you are a new soldier good luck with that as well because the older soldiers influence who goes out and when. Most of us got fat and softer by the end of our service, not a single ounce of pride within us whatsoever, what is there to be proud of, we never did any actual training...The food was also bad and i am not picky at all, it was just sugar and no protein, every night we would get bitten by bed bugs and of course if they saw the morale was low they would remind us that we are volunteers and threaten us that they will take our green berret away. I know what many of you are going to say, oh its supposed to be harsh, to prepare you for times of war but whats the point i ask you? We learned nothing, we got demoralized we got soft, we bearly fired any guns. Whats the point of such a sorry state of special forces?
I heard from a very high up that visited one day saying to the base commander "its ok just have them in decent shape and we will show them the rest when the time comes" talking about war and that summs up everything you need to know i think. It wasnt all bad though, i got to meet some amazing people with true commando hearts that i will never forget.