Going Strong,
I appreciate your role as Nola's assigned forum lawyer, but you're grasping at straws imo.
It's not that joining the foreign legion following a stint with the navy is unlikely.
It's that Nola only does things that are incredibly difficult and incredibly rare. It's not the foreign legion alone. I don't know why you keep focusing on one thing instead of the body of work here.
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My US Navy training included A-school and C-school. A-school was my basic Corpsman training, and C-school was my specialty which led to 18D training at Camp McKall, NC through the US Army, Special Forces Medic training (I was not a SEAL or Special Forces).
18D training:
https://www.goarmy.com/careers-and-jobs/...geant.html
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Special forces medical sergeants are considered to be the finest first-response/trauma medical technicians in the world.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-a-...l-Sergeant
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I was told that over 50% of Army Medics wash out of the 18D course, and these men are who are medics from the Rangers, 82 airborne and mountain infantry medics. And these men have seen what war can and will do to a body and yet still want to do more.
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Physically you have to be like a professional athlete. You have to have incredible perseverence and dedication. You Should train at least twice a day on your own time. You have to eat better, and be better than everyone. You have to be an animal.
You have to be an expert in every basic military task. Mentally you have to be extremely tough as well. Good luck!
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I can tell you that in my 26 years of military service that this was the most difficult Army MOS to qualify for and actually accomplish.
Ok.
In addition to doing an undergraduate degree in physics at MIT.
How difficult is it get into MIT physics?
https://www.quora.com/How-hard-is-it-to-...nd-Harvard
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One example:
white male from US public school, no legacies or sports
4.0 unweighted/4.7 weighted GPA
2340 SAT, 800 SAT Math2, 800 in one of Science SAT, 36 ACT
National level science Olympiads
Summer research at one of the top colleges
Club president at school, hundreds of hours of volunteering
Glowing recommendations from teachers and research supervisor
Great personality, great essays, and very successful interviews
Rejected by Caltech, Harvard and Yale
Admitted by MIT and Princeton
Goes to MIT
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It is extremely difficult, for some impossible, to get in the physics program at Caltech, Harvard, or MIT.
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your scores will need to be nearly perfect unless you have something else that really sets you apart.
Really though, maybe The Lizard of Oz can have a friendly debate on quantum physics and we can enjoy the debate of MIT level physics debate right here on our forum.
Not to mention that the workload at MIT physics is absolutely intense:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-academ...t-MIT-like
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I was a physics major. It was very hard. The pressure was severe
However this didn't stop our high achieving forum member from:
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Although I studied a STEM field in college I took my first year 2nd semester off and completed a 7 month commercial diving and underwater welding trade school plus had joined the reserves for a medical rating right before entering college. I had high paying jobs during college making more money than most people in their 30's and 40's just working part-time during the school year and full-time in the summer.
Listen, even getting into phyiscs at MIT is an incredible accomplishment and then the students go all in to even manage to get through. It is absolutely ridiculous to think you just take your 2nd semester off to go diving at MIT, then nonchalantly go back and take up high paying jobs while completing your MIT physics degree:
https://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-per...ee-require
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I remember that I and my fellow MIT undergrads spent on the order of 60 hours per week, either in class, studying or doing homework.
60 hours pr. week does not lend you much time for part-time work does it?
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One year in undergrad I had made enough money the year before + not having crippling tuition cost I was able to complete two additional programs in welding and diesel mechanics. with extra cash I was able to fund extra foreign language tutoring through my entire time in college.
WHAT.THE.FUCK
This is what I'm talking about.
Students at MIT can barely make it through 50-60 hour workweeks at an incredibly changing university, while this guy not only does so nonchalantly, but during his college time takes time off to become a commercial diver, welder and diesel mechanic, while getting extra foreign language tutoring and having "high paying jobs during college making more money than most people in their 30's and 40's just working part-time during the school year and full-time in the summer."
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So before I was done with college I already had 3 solid trade skills with certificates, licenses and experience, an EMT license in two states, no debt, no insurance cost because I was on tri-care, was close to being fluent in a foreign language
Wut.
Has anyone at MIT ever taken 3 trade skills, been a licensed EMT, deployed once and become fluent in a foreign language on the side?
Keep in mind
I didn't even get into being a yacht captain for 8 years or a real estate investor post-Katrina or a saturation diver or a successful startup employee.
I mean.
Everything this guy does is absolutely spectacular.
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Everyone has a different standard of living but I've lived in both NYC and Miami. Both are very different for game.
NYC - at least $9,500 - $11,000 per month not including taxes and minus the boat.
(with a boat slips can be had cheap believe it or not so add $1,500 per month for slip fees and maintenance.)
Miami - at least $9,000 - $10,000 per month (no state income taxes includes, boat, slip and maintenance)
(at least in Miami you will want at a minimum a decent boat to cruise around the bay with girls.)
The cost above was give or take my budget.
Then reality sets in and you live in a $175 month apartment in Ukraine.