![]() I do know there are some exotic duty stations available to them, and they also get to do some extraordinary missions. Why is it you want to become a 12D? What I've been told by a senior in that field is that it's VERY competitive to get a job using those skills outside of the military. It is very physically and mentally demanding. I can tell you that it has a VERY high attrition rate (hard to pass). I'm not a 12D, but I do work in the same company as the first phase 12D instructors. If you want more details about what I went through getting through 80% of phase 1 let me know and I can break down the day to day of phase 1. There is also a Surving the Cut video they did on army divers but its from the shortened 2 week course for already qualified Special Force Soldiers. You can look up the facebook page "Army Diver Phase 1" they have started updating it more regularly now about what they do there. All in all after 9 classes before during and after my time only 3 people made it to phase 2 and only 1 graduated out of around 150 who attended during my time before I was reclassed needs of the army. I personally was med dropped for my knee swelling up the size of a grapefruit after 9 days of the course, I had others in my class drop for the above mentioned conditions or just lacking the drive to complete the course (when I was med dropped 4 others volunteer dropped because I was all that was keeping them going). You can score 300+ on your Pt tests but dive 12 feet in a pool and start getting nose bleeds or heart palpitations and get med dropped. leonard wood back in 2010, it is a very physically demanding course but also mental and how your body anatomy is set up. I am a med drop from the phase 1 course at ft.
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