What happens if i fail pararescue

Do not let your selection failure define you. Either go back and kick the course in the nuts once and for all -or- use it as your opportunity to be great elsewhere. Now go kick ass and do great things. Hi there, this was a fantastic article. Could use a little advice from someone whos gone through this. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Sign in. Forgot your password?

Get help. Privacy Policy. Password recovery. AF Special Warfare. Original Content. Air Force Ranger Assessment Course info for Life went on for him, and he is excelling. Others have become doctors, lawyers and entrepreneurs, and some are serving in the highest levels of our military and government. Failing or quitting can and will make you stronger if you let it. The problem occurs when the individual is so devastated by this failure that they fail to try again. Quitting can make you weaker if you let it.

Learn from it and move on. Now, there is a big difference between leaving on your own terms for other opportunities and quitting. Both are not an easy transition. In fact, leaving military service, whether you are of retirement age or not, creates similar feelings of quitting when you leave your support group of friends and co-workers, change jobs and move to a new city.

These changes are not easy and highly stressful, but the journey forward must continue with the same drive and determination of previous goals and accomplishments. Do not give up. Find yourself again and move on. I remember quitting baseball when in high school.

That feeling of not being good enough to be on the team, not willing to put in the extra time to overcome the deficiencies and leaving my friends on the team stuck with me. It still haunts me to the point of helping me never to want to have that feeling again.

In fact, I attribute that feeling and learning from it as a part of the success I had in future goals and challenges athletically, academically, militarily and beyond.

The purpose of this article is to help with the transition that your decisions or failures abruptly caused. On the healthy side of the stress of transition, you will know one of two things after quitting or failing:. Do not fall into a pattern of self-loathing and fail to achieve anything ever again. Realize that you are better than that, or you would not have even had the guts to attempt any Special Ops training program.

Send your fitness questions to stew stewsmith. Whether you're thinking of joining the military, looking for fitness and basic training tips, or keeping up with military life and benefits, Military. Subscribe to Military. People often ask about swimming tips. I even went so far as to throw myself pity parties and think about how unfair it was that there were other people who failed multiple events when I only failed one. During this time I shut people out and stayed to myself and would only talk to other people who I knew had also been eliminated.

All this time I spent dealing with these emotions and thoughts crashing against me day after day and I did nothing to stop it.

I forgot about my friends and family that were supporting me. I had one friend whom I had met as a SOT Student Out of Training, who stuck beside me through all my sorrow, stubbornness and self-pity and was always encouraging me to look on the bright side of each day. He and I had one detail that we always were excited about completing each morning and afternoon which was flag duty; a three man team would bring the flag out to the flag pole in the morning usually it was never warmer than 50 degrees Fahrenheit and take it down, fold it and march her back inside at the end of the day.

He has become one of my greatest friends through this journey. He helped to anchor me from becoming completely shut off from the world. My parents were a great source of encouragement, especially my dad who encouraged me to not give up and come home and to push ahead with whatever job came my way. These two men in particular were there for me when I had no idea what to do, what to think and were there for me when every emotion crashed down on me and reduced me to tears.

I eventually was re-classed to be a C crew chief and sent to my next tech training base which was placed in Wichita Falls Texas for the next four and a half months.

One day during my tech training a thought occurred to me, what good does all this self-pity and anger do for me and how does it help me. I saved the question for later and when I had some time I began to think on it. I finally came to the conclusion that it does, in fact, do absolutely nothing for me. I was in the middle of being trained for my next job as a crew chief with a time limit of 18 months before I could try again and I was wasting time putting my anguish in place of my ultimate goal which was and still is to become a Pararescue Jumper.

While this gave me inspiration and indeed hopes for the future I still was dealing with these emotions which served as road blocks. I decided to call and tell a friend of mine what I was going through and the gap between this verse and my current situation. She proceeded to tell me that many times the problem lies in self unforgiveness and unforgiveness towards the people who had hurt me and helped lead me in prayer to forgive myself.

Having had these burdens lifted from my spirit I soon discovered that if I wanted them to stay gone I had to fight the battle in my mind that I am still worthy to achieve my dream. Over the past year I have learned many things. I have experienced much in a short time and hope that my story can help those of you who have had their hopes and dreams dashed and broken.