You made me get deep...like the ocean.
Fitness assessments for the SEALS, Green Berets, PJs, Recon, and Rescue Swimmers are always going to stop at average for the entrance assessment and above average for the graduation. You wont' see D-1 times or requirements in America. Any person with decent genes, time and proper training can get to D-1. Put them in the water for water confidence or in team drills after being up for 24 hours and suddenly their 4 min mile or 30 pull ups means nothing because they can't hold it together. But you know who can? The 5'6" skinny average Joe whos never really done anything with sports until this point but he doesn't quit and is used to adversity although he's barely passing the pt each week. PT tests will never measure the immeasurable. They serve to assure candidates for SOF have the fitness necessary to not die in the field and to weed out those without the motivation to train for it, that is it. It may be a way to widdle down that officer candidate pool for some military school, but those standards you list are far above the maximums for the enlisted SOF. Who do you think is "tougher"? Thats up to you. Beyond that its all about that intangible thing commonly called heart. It doesn't take D-1 times to have a big heart. A fitting day to remind ourselves of that.
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