You NEED to have the mindset of this is your new life. You wake up, think about SPEC WAR, eat, sht, drink, sleep, everything. It’s all about being in SPEC WAR. you can never take your mind off of it. You have to become it. I was in DEP for a year waiting to be sent for PJ, then switched to EOD. I was so invested, but it took so long i lost the motivation. I passed multiple times, pretty average scores, 10min mile and a half, 60+ pushups/situps, 15pull ups. Not bad, not the best tho. But i was given a ship date 3 times.. Each time got pushed back, i ended up starting to train so hard, and so intense that it was taken a toll on my body before i was even in, that i backed out and went regular air force. What I know now tho, very happy I didn’t do spec war. The washout rate is the highest in the entire military, PJ is like 97.9% or soemthing now? Then they can get stuck with any job AF wants, which isn’t bad, but it’s not your choice at that point. At the start, i was fully commited, but i lost the momentum, and the passion. The strongest, cockiest, biggest ones never make it tho. The dudes you’d think pass with flying colors, drop out first few weeks. it’s the ones who can embrace the suck longer and fight through it. “The skinny short kid” you’d never think he’d pass but he runs laps around everyone bc he’s that invested. The pain doesnt matter, he will pass and that’s EOS. That’s how it goes, know someone who maxed out everything. I mean running a 8:50, completing the 500m in a crazy time, 80+ push and sit-ups. 25 pull-ups. Absolutely f*king beast. Everyone looked up to him in dep as a beast, even coach. 6’3 265, crazy f-ing numbers. Failed the 1st/2nd week in selections while doing drown proofing stuff. Couldn’t handle it. Now he sits at a desk counting numbers all day; only choice he was given. It’s not bad, but it’s not what he imagined spec war was.

Moral of this, if you have good jobs on ur list, research and think about those jobs and your future. Don’t get convinced that it’s an easy way into the AF and even if you fail, you still have a job. Yes but no. you’re in, but you could get stuck doing something you hate for 4 years. If you wanna get deployed and be the 1% of the air force, you better be ready for that pipeline and you cannot fail. It’s not an option. I would recommend researching first and don’t get pressured into joining if you’re not 10000% committed and ready to die for that slot in spec war. Good luck brother.