You wouldn’t say that to their faces
Because they don't need a name
‘Hard wet cnuts’ would have been better
Boaty McBoatService would be preferable.
Yea Ant Middleton doesn’t look much when you see him but the guy is nails.
Cockleshell Heroes is their original name.
He must have gotten jacked after leaving. Any one of them I seen have looked more like endurance athletes. Almost gaunt looking. Could have been that they were just back from operations though, I dare not ask as a nod.
The main thing I noticed when I met him was how bloody short he is.
yea probably best not asking thatIsn’t that kind of the point though? They’re meant to be able to blend in. You don’t need to be jacked to be a stone cold killer. I wouldn’t fight someone in the special forces, even if you gave me two accomplices armed with baseball bats.
Blows my mind how shit the food is in the military. Specially in the US, from what I've seen on Reddit. They'll spend billions on fighting wars, but won't fuel the main weapon properly. Dunno how any of em stay jacked.
Oh no doubt, there’s no fecking with those guys.
Also a massive tw*t but you can’t have it all
That’s because they are endurance athletes. The SBS and the SEALs are sibling services, so this would likely apply to SBS as well...
I only ate scran in CTCRM 11 years ago, when I was doing my RM training (didn't pass out, left - wasn't for me) and it was just pure carbs. I genuinely didn't think it was that bad, but you got sick of it. I was having fries, pizza and burgers for 20 weeks I was there. I don't know how food is in the unit. I'd imagine it's optional. When you're doing training it just comes out of your wage.
Yeah but you watch so many movies, at least at that time my perception was a bit warped of how a special forces operator would look.
And yet also so fragile
What were you expecting? Guns growing out of their arms?
Oh, I know. I did a 20 mile yomp across Dartmoor with a massive bergen and that was just the training. Those guys in SF have insane mental and physical endurance.
A lot of psychopaths have fragile egos but they’re great at shooting people in the head without being emotionally compromised.
You'd think there'd be a decent amount of protein involved as well. Considering all the effort and money that goes in this seems like such an easy thing to get right and get obvious benefits from. Everyone would be stronger and fitter when fed right. Probably more focussed too when deployed.
As a 19 year old lad at the time, living in an age of 99.9% need not apply adverts, yeah thats kind of what I expected.
Actually we weren't allowed protein shakes or anything like that at all. Only lads underweight were on protein shakes prescribed in sickbay.
The fellas at the US Naval Academy training to be SEAL officers were on 6000-7000 calories a day. They just burn it all off.
Read it that, when asked about what they felt when they shot someone, SF operators respond with ‘Recoil.’
That's what I was consuming at least. We were ordered to eat at least 3 times a day and encouraged to eat 4. I personally ate about 5 times a day and a lot of sugar too.
Got em
It’s definitely their mentality that sets them apart. I expect they’re broken as men in their training and rebuilt with a totally different mindset.
