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Hardiness personality components in special operations forces

Commitment, Control, and Challenge: How Hardiness Helps Special Operators Succeed

By Craig Weller / March 21, 2020 / 1 Comment

Bodies can be remarkably strong. They’re hard to truly break, and – given the right circumstances – easy to repair. Bodies of SOF candidates are even stronger. So, it should be no surprise that people usually fail out of selection not because of physical factors, but mental ones. The mind breaks before the body. Physical […]

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You Will Have Your Waterloo

By Craig Weller / January 21, 2020 / 0 Comments

By: Craig Weller In the early 2000’s, the Naval Special Warfare program for students who have been successfully screened into a special program and are awaiting formal training was called SCRUFT Duty. It stands for Screened Candidate Reported and Undergoing Physical Training.  I spent six months in SCRUFTLand. We got up at three in the […]

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