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In reply to the discussion: NSA Staffer: Snowden Didn't Dupe Coworkers Out of Passwords [View all]jmowreader
(50,555 posts)One of our platoon sergeants in Berlin had the lifelong dream to become a Green Beret, and when he found out his Spanish and Russian language skills made him valuable to the SF community he put in his packet (back then you had to be in the Army for several years before you could go to SF school, unlike today where you can enlist for it) and got accepted. When he put in the packet he immediately started walking to work - approximately 10 miles one way, with a huge hill at the end - and home carrying 70 pounds in a rucksack. By the time he left for SFAS he could make the trip in two hours, which is plenty good. (The standard is 12 miles in three hours.) He could do 110 pushups in two minutes and run two miles in nine minutes. The guy was 40. He was a fucking MASTER of physical fitness. Charles Atlas in a green suit. And he was a prick, so no one was sad to see him leave.
The first day of SFAS they have a Physical Training test and a swim test. He did great on the PT test and drowned during the swim test. Fortunately for him (but unfortunately for us because we got him back) he didn't drown permanently; they were able to revive him.