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Delta Force Selection: When not to dance

Delta Force Selection: When not to dance

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Delta Force operators during nighttime operations in Iraq. (Image courtesy of YouTube.com).

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se·lect

/səˈlekt/

verb

1.
carefully choose as being the best or most suitable: “he has been selected to take part”

Every one of us inherently wants to be selected. “Oh…PICK ME, PICK ME!” We bustled on the school playground forming up for games. Doesn’t it seem like you can hardly just go participate in a thing anymore without being selected first? “The specially selected elite,” “select cuts of meat,” “they were selected on the basis of their superior ability.” Most of us want to be selected for something, but until what? Until there is nothing higher to be selected for?

Selection for me during my adult years began with the (no kidding) Army infantry. Mind you, selection was a requirement to get into the military in my day of the between-wars, go-nowhere, do-nothing Army, in a day where a pulse and arched feet meant a checkmark in the selection box. I was nonetheless selected by the Army and did my victory dance out in the parking lot of my recruiter station.

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  • Avatar
    George E. Hand IV

    Sincere thanks, Nick…
    I like writing to this audience because they are pretty intelligent across the board. I can’t pencil whip something and present it to these folks; I have to invest some game in it.
    All the best, Nick…
    geo sends

  • phillie76

    Pulse and arched feet? Can someone explain that to me?

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    JRomeoWhiskey

    Excellent Geo, thank you for this. Glad to have you back here.

  • Seth D

    Geo, as always I was intrigued from beginning to end. I had to hump the flat Carolina coastline for selection practice. Awful training but I wouldn’t trade the ugly looks for a minute. I hope your feet looked better than the sandy, raw, retched prunes that I produced.
    Seth sends

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    Alan t

    George,
    Glad to see you’re still writing.
    Book????
    The out of body thing is a thing.
    I’ve had 3.
    One in the Beacons.
    One on a thing called “Arm and Hammer”.
    5.10 A1. In Bells Canyon Utah.
    And one I manage by pretending it happened to someone else. Works like a champ.
    I really wish you’d do a book.
    Hope your 4 corners hunting is paying off. Sorry I couldn’t help more.
    AT