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Bro there is an abundance of resources for information on the officer route:

Current as of May of this year

Couple years old, but still pretty good

Trimhopp went to SOAS and was offered an officer slot a while ago. Dig through this thread and his comments for some insight. He's not active on the sub anymore but I'm sure he'd be willing to answer questions. He's chill.

Breaking BUD/S: Nothing in here we haven't heard, but the author lays out the process pretty well. I'm sure some things have changed since the book came out, but it's a good resource.

u/77dude has a son who went through BUD/S as an officer. Maybe he would also be willing to answer questions. But inform yourself first OP so you don't have to ask anything you can Google. (Not being an asshole, just encouraging the "ask three before you ask me" rule I learned growing up)

What kind of facilities do you have access to bud? Any weights, or is it all bodyweight?

Stew Smith is the man with all things prep-fitness-related.

You may check out Military Athlete as well; they have programs for literally every school on the planet. The unscrupulous may be able to find some of the PDFs online without paying for them.

Finally, Tactical Barbell is pretty cool.

I'm not familiar with BA Airborne pipeline or what's emphasized. US Airborne School is running and pullups, basically. It's not a particularly physically demanding course. There's also jumpmaster school which has one of the highest attrition rates for schools, but that's not physically taxing, it just requires 100% scores.

But any of those resources should help you find a workable program. Pretty much any 3-day strength/resistance training program followed by 30-60 minutes of HIIT should plug into your schedule fairly well.

Finally (and obviously) – don't drink. Drink to celebrate after you've finished. You don't want to get run down, fuck your times up, get sick, or not be on your game. Beer will still be there in a month.

Keep at it and keep your head down.

EDIT: Somebody here can probably say with more certainty but when I seem to remember something about staying in shape during fleet basic in the excellent but fairly obvious Breaking BUD/S.

Read this:

The Relationship Guy. Jack was my best friend at OCS and a physical stud. He was the ideal 5′10″, 200 lb, thick-necked, strong legged, Academy guy. He was raised in Maine as a member of the Polar Bear Club, so icy water didn’t even phase him, and he knew a great deal about BUD/S, SQT, and the Teams. We all, Jack included, thought he was a shoe-in. While under a boat in Indoc, Jack actually choke-slammed a pathetic member of his boat crew into the sand a few times until that guy (who we’ll talk about in a minute) quit. Jack was legit until he quit 3 hours into Hell Week, during a short Surf Torture after the last Log PT ever, of all things. Because of his girlfriend of 3 months (who had recently promoted herself to fiancee). Rewind a few months.

Jack was a great guy until we got a cell phone access at the end of OCS, when he ceased to exist. He was on the phone with this girl constantly, having the most emasculating phone calls one could ever imagine:

“What did you have for dinner?” “Oh, was it good?” “What did you have for desert?” “Well you should get ice cream then” “What flavor? I don’t know. What flavor do you want?” “Then you should get chocolate.” “One scoop or two? I think one.” “Okay, then get two scoops honey.” BARF.

I shared a room with Jack in BUD/S and spoke to him less in a month than I had in any given day of OCS. No joke. The kid was beyond reclamation and it showed. By the time we started First Phase, Jack was talking about marrying this girl during SQT. She came out to visit from the east coast on a regular basis, draining his bank account at an alarming rate. He proposed and they set a date for sometime in the middle of SQT when he thought he might be able to get a weekend off. He was so distracted that, at the beginning of Hell Week all he could think about was that she was too high-maintenance to deal with him being a SEAL. So he quit.

He was processed out of the Navy and got married while his class was in Kodiak, AK. (If he hadn’t quit, he would’ve got married while his class was in Alaska during his wedding, for which he’d already paid non-refundable deposits at his new wife’s insistence. Which shows he - at least subconsciously - knew he wouldn’t make it). After months and months of feigning happiness, he finally came to terms with his regret and is trying to join the Army Special Forces. I hope he makes it, but I can tell you one thing for sure: if it wasn’t for the woman, Jack would be a Team Guy already.

What do we learn from Jack’s failure?

• Get your household in order. BUD/S is enough on its own. You don’t need to add anything more to your plate. If your girlfriend can’t deal with the hours, stress, or you absence, get rid of her. Despite how awesome you think your girlfriend is, this probably (statistically) applies to you. I’m not saying don’t have a girlfriend when you’re going through. I did, and she was wonderful. She made me food at all hours and helped me prep uniforms for inspections. Good women do exist, but yours probably can’t handle BUD/S. And if she can’t handle BUD/S, she most certainly cannot handle life in the Teams. Save yourself the stress and heartache and do some honest thinking about her expectations and needs. If she’s not going to make it, cut her off now so you don’t have to deal with THAT on top of the stresses of BUD/S.
  
  
• Fully understand your commitments. Jack was dumb in any number of ways, not the least of which was his expectations of life after BUD/S. he scheduled his wedding for a weekend when we’d probably be in SQT. He scheduled it during Basic Orientation/Indoc. See any glaring problems with this? One: how did he know he wouldn’t be rolled once or twice along the way, resulting in his being in BUD/S when he was supposed to get married? He didn’t. Two: how did he know that weekend, even if he HAD made it to SQT, would be available? In reality if he hadn’t quit or been rolled, he would have been on Kodiak Island in Alaska on the day he’d reserved that adorable little chapel in Cambridge. There is no excuse for this level of stupidity. Either he subconsciously knew he was going to quit, or he had no grasp of the commitment he was going to have to make in order to become a SEAL.
  
  
• Don’t make big decisions during BUD/S. BUD/S is mental; it is the world’s most effective mindfuck. You will not be in any condition, despite what you think, to make a big decision. You’re not even going to be in a condition to decide whether you ‘actually’ want to be a SEAL, which is why I’ve told you to make your mind up Before you get to BUD/S. If you can’t even make a good decision regarding the very thing you do all day and night, how do you expect to be able to make a good decision about anything else? Do not get engaged. Do not ask for a divorce. Do not try to have a child. Here are the decisions you WILL get to make: What should I eat for breakfast? What should I eat for lunch? What should I eat for dinner? How long should I stretch before I got to bed? How much more water should I drink? What should I do this weekend to recover and decompress before next week kicks me in the teeth? If you try to make a decision beyond the scope of these questions, you are wrong. Being wrong very often results in ringing a bell three times and hanging your head for the rest of your life.

It's good. He also wrote: [Spec Ops: Case Studies in Special Operations Warfare: Theory and Practice] (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0024NP5FG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1). It builds off the principles of his thesis through the context of historical examples of spec ops raids. Definitely worth the read.

Anyone here read "Worth Dying For?" I was just browsing Amazon, it seems like it actually raises some good questions, the author definitely uses his SEAL title to promote the book but it doesn't seem like it's centered around his experience specifically as a SEAL. If nobody here has read it I'll pick it up and tell you guys what I think.

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Worth-Dying-Navy-Seals-Nation/dp/1501124110/ref=pd_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51CIKnsE3SL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL480_SR318%2C480_&psc=1&refRID=SACSCYYCEZSGP4FA4P3X

Seems like a good read, starting to read it, not really of a fan of the guy because he created the hoax situation back in '13 (esquire article). But overall, I guess he is a solid dude.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1501145037/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HX9MAWDF50VQ1TKMZES8

Can anyone recommend any books on sports psychology and/or mental toughness?

I've read [The New Toughness Training for Sports] (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452269989/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687442&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0452267951&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=03YQDQ3ZCVQGYH1BXDTC) and would recommend it

Here ya are,

Strength Training- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1537666932/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522260076&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=tactical+barbell&dpPl=1&dpID=41ONX0yWthL&ref=plSrch

Conditioning- https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1537710443/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1522260076&sr=8-2

Read the conditioning one first, that has the first 8 week program.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Water-Never-Cold-Demolition/dp/1574882759
-check this out if you're interested in the WWII frog men.
Also another book, "More Than Scuttlebutt" by the same author.

For insight, I recommend you give this a read.

Pure as the driven snow.

https://www.amazon.com/Level-Zero-Heroes-Operations-Afghanistan/dp/1250030404

http://www.amazon.com/The-Finishing-School-Earning-Trident/dp/0609810464

Read it

http://www.amazon.com/Trident-Forging-Reforging-Navy-Leader/dp/0062208322

Answered. Locked. Next time put it in the white board.

Also: https://www.amazon.com/Excel-Dummies-Greg-Harvey/dp/1568840500/ref=asc_df_1568840500/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312118197030&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12479728693602340104&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030454&hvtargid=pla-569161040559&psc=1

Try reading this as a starter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0024NP5FG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Haven't read this book since high school, but I think it might touch on some of what he's talking about:

https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316040932

Text wall rant about a TG doing something stupid and silly that dishonors the teams inbound. Hey, it is the off topic section.

I read this book, The Terminal List by Jack Carr, a retired SEAL who mentions it really prominently in marketing the book. He tries to use the Trident to build its brand, in other words.

I thought the premise sounded ridiculous but that it might be kind of fun to read. Instead it just pissed me off. Basically, it's a masturbation fantasy by a Trump supporter about murdering Hillary Clinton. The main villain is Secretary Lorraine Hartley (take out an R and A and it's a perfect anagram for 'Hillary Clinton'); to make it extra clear she's described as a liberal cabinet secretary who is the next prospective POTUS, as having began her political career as an activist before being captured by the system, and as having a husband with white hair she isn't close to who has a widely-known habit of infidelity that the American public nonetheless forgives him for because of his charm and charisma, which is said to exceed hers. Anyways, Lorraine is testing preemptive anti-PTSD medication with dangerous side effects on a random SEAL platoon as guinea pigs at the behest of a Pharma donor she is in bed with. A satisfactory reason for why they couldn't just, you know, use guinea pigs never really becomes apparent, although Carr tries lamely to answer that a couple times. We are assured that those in the know stand to make billions (I mean really, selling bad PTSD medication? That's the lamest conspiracy motivation I ever heard; there's maybe a couple million in that tops, which given that Clinton makes 400k a speech is a couple days worth of money to her). It gives them all brain tumors, so Clinton Hartley reaches out to the Taliban and organizes an ambush that kills all but a few of them, then has the rest killed by New Jalisco Cartel hitmen and corrupt NCIS agents, who also murder the whole family of the main character, Lieutenant Commander James Reece, who commanded this platoon that was otherwise wiped out. He survives, so she taps into a secret U.S. government program that radicalizes Muslims who believe they are really serving ISIS and deploys one of those sleeper agents against him, with the aid of a drone she puts up to track him on American soil. No one appears to notice or question that this breaks the law and is incredibly odd. Anyways, Reece survives that attack, too. He also has a brain tumor from the meds that will eventually kill him as far as he knows. Now having been transformed into a man with Nothing Left to Lose(TM), he has to kill everyone with a ton of weapons he stole from a SEAL armory. This includes Bill and Hillary the Hartleys, the cartel hitmen, the bigwigs in that Pharma company, the ranking SEAL admiral who is also an ally of hers, a JAG officer assisting him, and SoCal's highest ranking moderate muslim imam, who of course is really an ISIS operative that Lorraine organized the ambush by the Taliban through. Lorraine tries a few more wildly implausible ways of stopping him, like deploying a SEAL platoon on U.S. soil to kill him (no one really presses back very hard or resigns when it is repeatedly pointed out that this violates a huge number of laws; the issue that an incredible number of people now are in on the conspiracy, from the SEALs to that drone pilot and crew to everybody else listed is also not really addressed). Finally, Reece succeeds in killing everybody with weapons ranging from sniper rifles to truck bombs and coerced suicide bombers (whose family he is holding hostage; Carr assures us this is OK because he would never really hurt them, it's just a bluff) and flees the country. Reece shows all the evidence to a ballsy female reporter, who writes a muckraking piece that every single major media outlet turns down to Lorraine reaching out through the deep state to stop its publication. The Drudge Report finally courageously runs it (yes, the actual Drudge Report, not an analogous publication in the book's universe), and the elites reject it roundly as "fake news." Lorraine also uses the specter of Reece to try and paint him as a deranged domestic terrorist to make a broader point about how white men are the real terrorist threat and to push a domestic surveillance measure and a gun control act that outlaws private ownership. The media gleefully plays along by reporting that Reece is using a fully auto AK with a "fully automatic assault clip" he bought without a background check or something like that. Like I say, it's partisan red meat, a caricature of the world according to an extreme Trump supporter.

Ok, I can see why people might be asking at this point why any of this matters and heading to the downvote button. The reason why it pissed me off so much is two-fold. The first is that writing assassination fantasies about real people and selling them to those who dislike that person is obviously not cool. I'm not a Hillary fan, but you can't kill everybody who is unethical and/or disagrees with you. Carr is way outside of his lane on that one, especially given that this isn't exactly in line with the idea of respect for civilian control of the military and the authority of country's lawful leaders as granted by the Constitution. You know, the thing he swore an oath to. The second is that it wasn't enough for Carr to do that, he just had to abuse the SEALs' rep and prestige to try and sell it. Beyond the main character and his prominently displayed bio, he stuffed it with as many references to the Teams as he possibly could. This is blatant abuse of a revered and widely-regarded institution to try and do something very destructive that makes the problem of toxic partisanship much worse and helps further divide America while sending an implicit message that politicking with bullets instead of ballots is OK. I have a very big problem with that message. Making it worse is the fact that Jack Carr is not the only one who's doing this. Carl Higbie is advocating for creating a national Muslim database based on the Japanese internment camps as precedent, guys like Larry Bailey, Ben Smith, and others have gotten on the "Obummer is a secret Muslim who was born in Kenya" bandwagon, and Ryan Zinke keeps doing stuff like this while wearing a Trident lapel pin, which just sums up the whole problem. These guys can't just be clowns unto themselves, they're reflecting their light back onto their units as intensely as they can.

It's pretty clear that this a cultural problem specific to the SEALs, because I don't see members from many other units acting like this. It really needs to stop, because it's going to be really, really bad for the country if people start seeing the Teams as being pro-one candidate or another and if racists and conspiratards can wrap themselves in the Trident.