The Human Engagement and Adaptive Thinking in Special Operations Training

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The qualification course is plural. Whether it's psychological operations, civil affairs or special forces, they're long. There's a lot of time built in there to improve for anybody. We frame that in the fact that that engagement that they do is a mission. It's a mission just like an ambush that includes actions on the objective. And we also want them to think about what biases they have and how to use those.

Today we are joined by Dr. Rick Dietrich and Mr. Bob Jones of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School's Human Development Directorate (HDD). We open the discussion by talking about the Growth Mindset, challenges to performance and how SMs can work to self-improve. The Doctors mention how there will always be stress, but that the way forward for students is to seize what they can control (nutrition, PT, sleep etc) to help lay the mental groundwork for success. We also discuss how the SOCEP and HEAT programs assist our students in reaching their best performance throughout each of the Regimental Qualification Courses.