The 8 most elite special forces in the world

Business Insider ^ | 05/13/2015 | Tomas Hirst

[circlecity]

"Training reportedly includes a 36-mile march in 12 hours and a five-mile run in 20 minutes in full gear."

I'm not sure I buy the 5 miles in 20 minutes in full gear.

[Bruce Kurtz]

yea, that is a 4 minute mile

[circlecity]

"yea, that is a 4 minute mile"

I just looked it up - 5 miles in 20 minutes would be close to if not THE world record for a 5 mile run.

[Responsibility2nd]

Meanwhile the Army Rangers are force feeding gals into their special training operations with predicatable results...

 

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[Red_Devil 232]

I don’t buy the 5 miles in 20 Min. either!

[Gamecock]

The US Navy SEALS might one-up even the Marines. To join their ranks, you have to be able to do a minimum of 42 push-ups in two minutes, 50 sit-ups in two minutes, and run 1.5 miles in 11 minutes. And that's before training starts.

Ummm, that's not that hard. Well when I was a young Troop anyway. Now as a 50 something retiree....

[Mr. Lucky]

There are maybe, what, a handful of people in the entire world who can run a 4 minute mile under ideal conditions and the reporter claims these folks can do five 4 minute miles in succession with a full pack?

[Theoria]

Ranger school is not 'special forces'. It is a TRADOC school, where numerous different 'mos' can attend.

[Popman]

-—Training reportedly includes a 36-mile march in 12 hours and a five-mile run in 20 minutes in full gear.——

Maybe he meant kilometers instead of miles...still a little hard to believe...

[WinMod70]

Miles = kilometers to many.

[PROCON]

[KarlInOhio]

The Olympic record holder for the 5000 meter (3.1 mile) run keeps a pace of 4.2 minute per mile. So every SSG member can wear full gear and pass him easily. Yeah, right.

Maybe it's 5 kilometers in 20 minutes.

[Lower Deck]

Ummm, that's not that hard. Well when I was a young Troop anyway. Now as a 50 something retiree....

That's just to get in. Once training starts it's a whole lot harder than that.

[dfwgator]

GROM should be on the list.

[Leaning Right]

I'm not sure I buy the 5 miles in 20 minutes in full gear.

Maybe the full gear includes a bicycle.

[Gamecock]

I’m pretty sure I know that.

My point is, I was expecting something like 80 push-ups in 2 minutes.

[Lower Deck]

There is such a fine line separating these teams in terms of ability it’d probably be safer to say that you have about four tied for first place and four tied for second.

[ameribbean expat]

Not buying that at all. 4 minute miles in full gear? Bullcrap.

[max americana]

One of our employees tried out for Marine Force Recon. From what he told us, on day 1, they pushed out (actually kicked out) everyone from a boat 20 miles off shore and the instructor said “ OK, there’s the shore, I’ll see you later.”