Can you join the army special forces green beret directly after basic training ?

Question

i mean sure going through all their training then become a green beret but without serving in any other unit

Answer 1

YES U CAN NOW You used to have to be at least an e-5 this is no longer true they will send from basic to jump school to jfk special warfare school there is such a shortage of sf they will even give u a bonus please note u will be stuck at selection until u pass or give up

Answer 2

I went from a Ranger Bat to the 82nd and from there to SF, however from what I hear these days, once you make it to the 75th you can pretty much forget about going anywhere until time for reenlistment. It used to be that if you stayed in Bat for 18 months they would let you go pretty much anywhere you wanted. I don't remember ever seeing anyone in 7th group that was not Ranger qualified. There might have been and I just don't remember it though. I am not aware of any regulation that says they have to be, but almost all at Ft Bragg had an open ticket to Ranger School even if they were never in Bat. The rules and requirements change very often. By the time you get to the decision point, it will probably have changed again.

Answer 3

Yes you can, the Army has a 18x enlistment option.

At last count, less than 2% of the soldiers using the 18x enlistment option, make it thru SFAS.

There is no data on how many make it thru the Q course.

And at any time, if you fail, you are then made an 11b infantryman and assigned accordingly.

Im amazed at how many people give wrong answers, don't they even research it at all ?

Answer 4

No. You must go through Basic training, Airborne school, PLDC and SFAS as prerequisites. When I went through SFAS (no, I didn't pass) there was a young Joe who joined the National Guard and went straight through all of those schools right out of basic. If he failed any of them he would have been reclassed to 11B infantry. A lot of the other candidates were pretty pissed that he didn't have the time in service and grade that the rest of us did, but I thought hey, more power to him. We should have been smart enough to do it that way.

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Clarification, you don't have to go to airborne school prior to SFAS, but you do have to go if selected for further training.

Also, this was how it was done in 1997, maybe things have changed.

Answer 5

No you cannot. There is a certain amount of years you must put in the Army befor you can go to the Special Forces School. Then you must excel within the army ranks to even be considered for the job.

Answer 6

No, you have to be chosen by your chain of command, then go in front of a board, to be considered for the "Green Berets'".

Answer 7

Training and selection

New male recruits to the Army who have requested to join the Special Forces first begin training at Fort Benning, Georgia. (All United States Special Forces units are closed to females.) This consists of basic training and Infantry training combined in a 14 week-long course. After graduation, soldiers must attend and pass the three-week Airborne school before progressing to the Special Operations Preparation Course (SOPC) at Ft. Bragg.


SOPC's purpose is to prepare SF candidates for Phase I, Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS), an evaluation that lasts 24 days. Upon successful completion of this phase, recruits usually return to their previous units to await being admitted to a class in the three-phase Special Forces Qualification Course ("Q Course"). There recruits are assigned to the 1st Special Warfare Training Group (Airborne) at Fort Bragg and required to participate in a demanding three-week Small Unit Tactics course. This course is designed to familiarize non-combat Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) soldiers with basic patrolling, orienteering and woodland skills. Afterwards, recruits of rank Staff Sergeant (E-6) and below attend the Primary Leadership Development Course/Basic Non-Commissioned Officer's Course at Camp Mackall before officially beginning Phase II, a five-week block of instruction in Small Unit Tactics.

In early 2006, Phase II was expanded to include three weeks of Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training & lethal hand to hand combat & element of surprise disarming techniques, following immediately after completion of the Small Unit Tactics phase. After Phase II, recruits then begin Phase III for specific training within one of five Special Forces specialties: 18A, SF Officer; 18B, SF Weapons Sergeant; 18C, SF Engineer Sergeant; 18D, SF Medical Sergeant; and 18E, SF Communications Sergeant. 18A-C training courses are about 26 weeks long, the 18D training course is 59 weeks long, and the 18E training course is 32 weeks long. Q Course graduates complete their Special Forces training by participating in "Robin Sage", a large-scale unconventional warfare exercise (Phase IV) and language school (Phase V) before being awarded the Special Forces tab.[5]

Soldiers who successfully complete SFAS but are not already Airborne qualified are assigned a class date to attend Basic Airborne School at Ft. Benning, Georgia prior to reporting to Ft. Bragg.

After successfully completing the Special Forces Qualification Course and earning the green beret and SF tab, Special Forces Soldiers are then eligible for many advanced skills courses. These include the Military Free Fall Parachutist Course, the Combat Diver Qualification Course, the Special Forces Sniper Course, Advanced Special Operations Techniques course, and the Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance and Target Exploitation Techniques Course. Additionally, Special Forces Soldiers may participate in special operations training courses offered by other services and allied nations throughout their careers.

Answer 8

Try the Schutzstaffel. You get to wear black and have much more fun protecting the fatherland.

Answer 9

No you cannot. You have to have served one enlistment before going SF.

Answer 10

vtjames got it.
You have to prove yourself first.