The selection process for Delta Force successfully uses a high-stress, individual-based assessment to identify suitable candidates.

“selection was just an individual assessment of your stress and your decision-making while under stress and L naav is one of those under time is one of those things that creates stress on you”

Prime Hall argues that having a backup plan during Special Operations selection can be detrimental because it provides an excuse to quit when conditions become difficult.

“if this doesn't work out for me then I'll go be on work on Wall Street or I'll go work at my family business that's really doing well right now and you give yourself that fall back then when it's a week with no sleep and it's the weather sucks again that day and you've been awake for whatever and yo”

Special Forces selection is an extremely physically demanding and challenging process designed to test a candidate's mental and physical resilience through rigorous tasks and sleep deprivation.

“SF selection believe it or not was the hardest thing i ever did really yup i went totally unprepared out of shape i said this is what i'm doing this is why i came in the army said i'm gonna do it and i went and did it”

Special operations forces were the primary element fighting the counterterrorism war and were over-relied upon due to the lack of a broader military strategy.

“the force that fought this counterinsurgency counterterrorism war counterterrorism war was are were special operators across all of the services.”

The speaker feels that the military bureaucracy in Special Forces can be soul-crushing and often creates a sense of futility.

“I remember laying in bed and realizing I could come in work today and give 100% or I could just lay here in bed and not come into work at all and it would have almost the exact same result yeah because all the the the bureaucracy is so so Soul crushing”

He advocates for consolidating special operations into a single, independent branch that acts independently, free from service-specific competition and excessive micromanagement.

“I think it just gets rid of the competition. And when I mean competition, I don't mean, you know, Green Bay to seal. I mean, competition is in the the salesmanship that goes into who's going to get what specific operation that I would think that that all goes away because it will be put on some type”