One thing this excellent article fails to mention is the beard…you have to grow a big beard, and you should grow your hair at least until it touches the top of your ears (see #3, which is good but could be expanded imho).
How to look like you’re Special Forces
by Anonymous, courtesy of BusinessWeek.com
1. First, go to EMS and buy the biggest watch you can find. A foreign special services officer asked me once whether we recruited guys based on the size of their watches or whether we bought everyone a big watch as a reward after training.
2. Cut the sleeves off your shirt. It’s hot in the Middle East, and guys would cut the sleeves off their operational uniforms. It makes sense in certain situations, but I had to tell my team, “Look, I know it’s hot, but I need you to meet safety parameters. You’re gonna get scratched.”
3. Make it your boss’s job to tell you to get a haircut and a shave.
4. Wear sunglasses. Everywhere. I’ll tell my team, “Hey, we’re inside. We can take off our sunglasses.” But they don’t.
5. Keep quiet. The baddest guys I know are also the quietest. The guy who’s talking about doing badass stuff? He’s probably not the biggest badass in the room. It’s a little like that guy on the football team who wears his letterman jacket all the time.
6. Never say “no.” Your first reaction has to be, “Yes, I can do that,” and then you figure out how. If the president asked me to go to the moon tomorrow, I’d say yes. Then I’d say, “I’ll need some training. And someone who can fly a rocket.” — As told to Brendan Greeley
Thanks to tacticalfanboy.com for the original article.
#7. If you lose at anything; ANYTHING AT ALL, throw a hissy fit and demand a rematch!
8. Never wear the same camo as everyone else and make sure you’re not out of season i.e. Multicam was cool in 2005 but now regs wear it so you need to wear something else. Extra style points awarded for throwback patters such as DCU.
Tigerstripes get 100 extra points. Also try to see what you can get away with carrying, IE AK, PKM, M14 etc
Kryptek LEAF?
This must be a US thing, as what you call SF and what we call SF in the UK are a world apart. Save facial hair that is think is inherited from SF mums!
Around these parts SF only applies to SF. One specific unit. What does it stand for in the UK?
SOF
22 SAS, SBS & 14Int (the Det or whatever they call it now).
you forgot…keep your hands in your pockets at all times…
Rule #1: Always know where you are and what you are doing.
Rule #2: Always look cool.
Rule #3: If you dont know where you are or what you are doing, at least look cool figuring it out.
Concur, getting tired of seeing “operators” walking around, in uniform, with full beards and very long hair. Someone needs to tell them; “Look, you’re not fooling anyone anymore”. If their job requires them to grow a beard and have long hair, they shouldn’t be in uniform, allow them to wear civilian clothes. Maybe they would fool us then.
Doesn’t wear undies or underarmour
Only PSC and airsofties does