The Special Forces “Nasty Nick” Obstacle Course | Special Operations | Camp Mackall, NC

The Nasty Nick is pretty tough, but not impossible. Just another event to get through on the way to that Green Beret.

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[manofaction]

EVERYTHING Gritty talks about can lead you here.

Don't mess around, either. If you get here, it's the Superbowl of schools.

[lbco]

Keep in mind that the guys doing this probably had early morning PT, a few hundred flutter kicks and push-ups or a nice surprise midnight rucksack march hours before. Sad to see how built up the camp looks. Probably a good idea to wear the helmets. What I remember was this was one of the longest O courses, if not the longest in the military. There was some weird beauty to the simplicity of it years ago. It was an old POW camp before we used it for land nav/survival stuff and not much had changed.

[wolfontheroad]

Went through ol' Nasty Nick in August of 1996 - brings back some crazy memories. My respect and best to all those who dedicate their lives to benefitting others.

[jon-michaelm.]

This video gives away answers to the test

[ejp]

I remember doing this when I was 20 yrs old in 1976 going through the SFOQC at the USAIMA, US Army Institute for Military Assistance, forerunner of JFKSWCS. Officers and enlisted trained together, no one had rank through training, to get you to work together as equals. It was graded harder than the Darby Queen at Ranger school. But at Ranger school, you suffered more due to lack of food and sleep. I was with 1st Bn 75th Infantry Ranger (A) before I was interviewed and selected for the Q Course. There was no SFAS assessment selection course back then. If they selected you, you either passed the Q Course and SERE or failed and went back to your last unit. I graduated, earned my beret and went to 1st Bn 10th SFGA in Bad Tolz Germany, as a CPT A-Team leader. There I met and worked under COL Beckwith. After Eagle Claw he selected me during standup of JSOC. Then I was part of Blue Light, the other team training for anti-terrorism with SFOD- Delta being selected. When I became a MAJ I went to work for COL Jerry King in Fort Belvoir Virgina to join ISA, where I finished my service.
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[jesuspernia]

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For some reason out of all of them this one gave me the most trouble. I legit had to go and practice it in my free time every day.

[philippejoyal]

I am so building this in my backyard!
Just have to convince the wife...

[trisgilmour]

This looks like fun but I’m sure it’s also challenging

[dreadedduraggod]

I'm confident that I can do each of these individually but back to back while running in between has to be brutal

[sfret]

Helmets? We don't need no stinking helmets. LOL
The course was easy if you were fit and mentally prepared. That's why we lost 80% of our students in the first month 1983. They took it for granted.

[tesla__performance]

Obstacle at 5:00 was the hardest for me; also wasn't there a water pit after the cargo net 🤔

[coreyburt]

Perspective is everything, this is just intense summer camp.

[johnjinglehimer]

Dudes candidate number was spartan 117 I hope he made it😮

[henryscarhead]

There should be a full course under the name "Jake "McNasty" McNiece" in the camp.

[PewPewFig]

I'm short af, gonna be hard to get up the wall. 5'3.

[xusmico]

Camp MacKall? Wow how it has changed and grown from hard back tarpaper huts. LTCol Rowe was at the school house back then.

[manofaction]

Nick damn near wasted me. Good times! I have about as much luck on those damn things as I do winning the lottery.

BTW, They cleaned it up a whole lot since the day I fell off that middle of that fuckin ladder tower. Back in the early 90's they still had Quonset huts and wooden buildings.
Didn't use a helmet, either... Lawd knows I could have used one. Falling off that thing hurts.

[NedWasHere]

Do you know what’s not nasty? Winning a free ranger pack

[mikefloris]

What's worse - Nasty Nick or the Darby Queen????

[FieldWordsworth-mn]

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