How hard is it to become a green beret?

If you're an enlisted soldier, you must have a pay grade of at least E-3, be able to get a secret security clearance, be airborne qualified, have a ASVAB General Technical score of at least hundred ten, and have served for at least thirty-six months after graduating from training.

Around 3,000 soldiers a year enter the first phase to become a green beret, of which only around 900 will go on to the qualification course. Of those, about 70% graduated and donned the Green Beret. The training is mentally and physically exhausting and takes 63 weeks to complete, broken down into six stages.

The first trial is a two-week Special Operations Preparation Course. SOPC prepares possible candidates for the actual Special Forces Assessment and Selection -- the first official phase of Green Beret training.

Then you will participate in the Special Forces Qualification Course for another sixty-one weeks. Each phase is designed to build upon an expertise in the following areas: small unit tactics, Combat Marksmanship (CMMS), advanced Special Forces tactics, Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) training, language and cultural training, unconventional warfare, and Military Free Fall (MFF).

For the month-long fourth phase, known as Robin Sage, all candidates will be organized into squads and placed into a fictional country called Pineland, which is made up of several counties spanning North Carolina. Pineland is dealing with much political turmoil, and candidates must navigate the region to complete a specified mission.

Know that all of the major work and training is completed by the sixth phase. At this point, which involves a week of out-processing, you will finally have the opportunity to proudly put on that Green Beret. At the end of the day, making it through the program successfully is 70% mental and 30% physical.