Crossfit - Physical Fitness SEAL Style

[justTripn]

IOC is Infantry Officer Course, you only go to it if you get Infantry Officer or Ground Intelligence Officer as an MOS. I'm shooting for both, actually. They've been talking about how you might get to go to IOC if you get Human Intelligence Officer, but that's less combat-oriented, so it may very well not be true.

Human Intelligence Officer! Human Intelligence Officer! Be a Human Intellegence Officer. I bet you'd be good at it.

[Elessar]

The weight issue is valid. I have always weighed more than I look like I do. All my life. Whether I was fat or not. I have an unusually heavy skeleton, and all my father's family are heavily muscled. We just weigh like lead. When my daughter was six month's old she picked up her grandfather's chainsaw. Rather, she crawled over to where he was busy sharpening the blade and grabbed the crossbar. He put down the file and gently picked her up, expecting her to let go, with the intention of taking her into the other room. Instead, the six month old female baby brought the chainsaw along with her. In one hand. Swinging it and laughing. And held it without difficulty. Both of my kids are that way. It just runs in the family.

According to the weight charts, I should weigh no more than 200 pounds. When I got married I weighed 220 pounds, and my ribs were pushing out due to four college years of eating my own cooking. At optimum, I weigh about 240, when the charts say I should weigh 200.

The explanation you offer is good Ellesar, when you are talking about endurance. But I wondered about brute strength. Lifting power. Dead weight lifting strength. Is there any standard for that?

Not really in the Marine Corps because they're not all that concerned with it - based on expecetations of combat conditions. We do the fireman's carry exercises a lot at OCS and TBS, which accounts for having to carry a 200+ man out of a tank or off a battlefield, but the idea of having to lift 300 or 400 lbs one time isn't covered or considered as important as being able to carry 150-250 lbs several times (your weight + 65 lb pack, or in rare situations, your weight and a wounded man's weight). That's why the Marine Corps focuses on body weight exercises like pullups, dips and pushups... They want you to be able to lift yourself out of a hole 50,000 times in the shittiest of conditions rather than lift a deuce and a half off of a guy's leg once.

[Elessar]

IOC is Infantry Officer Course, you only go to it if you get Infantry Officer or Ground Intelligence Officer as an MOS. I'm shooting for both, actually. They've been talking about how you might get to go to IOC if you get Human Intelligence Officer, but that's less combat-oriented, so it may very well not be true.

Human Intelligence Officer! Human Intelligence Officer! Be a Human Intellegence Officer. I bet you'd be good at it.

Human Source Intel Officer (full name) is basically collecting intel from people, so it includes language ability. Of course I've learned spanish before, a bit of german and am probably further along in Russian right now, just about passing where I was in Spanish back in the day. But I don't love it. I don't really see myself doing linguistics as a career and really loving it.

Now, designing ship-to-shore railguns with impact velocities of mach 5 at 250 miles from the deck of a frigate, THAT I can see!

Real deal. Navy's workin on em.

For the guys... I want Ground Intel because yall probably know what Scout Snipers are from Jarhead and Shooter... in the Marines a Ground Intel officer trains at scout sniper platoon commander school then goes as first assignment into an infantry bn as a 2nd LT in charge of a 16-man scout sniper platoon. You serve as a scout sniper platoon commander for 18 months and then if you're good enough and in good enough shape, you can volunteer to lead a recon platoon. Otherwise you go become a battalion or divisional intel officer.

[justTripn]

Oh wait. Human Intelligence Officer . .. is that a spy? Never mind. I see the post!

[Elessar]

Oh wait. Human Intelligence Officer . .. is that a spy? Never mind. I see the post!

I mean maybe the closest thing to one in a uniform (I'm not counting Delta/SEAL operators because they're not in uniform ) but nothing that exciting. It's "intel" related though.

[blacknblue]

How tall are you BnB? Cause I weigh right round 220 right now, an Im 6'2". An this is the most Ive ever weighed.

Corse I hit both 220, an 6'2" by my 14th birthday. But I was as tall as my Dad by the time I was 10. I growed up fast. Lil to fast.

I am in no way disciplined enough to ever take up any of the Millitary excersis regimes.
Pluss Im often just to beat at the end of a day (when I prefer to excersis) to do anything but hit the Hay.

But Ill be damned if I give up all together though. I was over weight in Jr. High, an I am in no way going back to that ever again.

I am right at 6'0", give or take a fraction depending on what time of day it is. I am built kind of like a gorilla.

[CX]

So like Paul, Sr. on American Chopper?

[blacknblue]

Didn't see that one. If you ever saw a re-run of Bonanza, think Hoss Cartwright.

[CX]

The guy in the middle.

[blacknblue]

Would that it were so.

I haven't looked remotely like that in twenty years. Even back in the day, I looked more like the guy on the left, than the one in the middle. But that was many split chunks of firewood, many tossed haybales, many sacks of concrete, yea verily, that was many and many a shovel full of hot mix ago.

[enterprikayak]

yea verily, that was many and many a shovel full of hot mix ago.

[Mitchell]

Those are some big dudes.

Would that it were so.

I haven't looked remotely like that in twenty years. Even back in the day, I looked more like the guy on the left, than the one in the middle. But that was many split chunks of firewood, many tossed haybales, many sacks of concrete, yea verily, that was many and many a shovel full of hot mix ago.

A gorilla Huh. Guess so, that type of work sure helps that dont it.