DevGru Legacy Test

DevGru are some bad mother frickers. Life takers and heart breakers.

I can’t run five miles (working on it currently). I can probably bench my body weight 10 time, but I would struggle with pullups (also working on it). And I’m doing greyskull to get there.

I got the bench, maybe 5 pull-ups but no way am I running 5 miles in that time.

Yea to do this you better be a bad mother fricker.

I think a better challenge for a normal person would be to keep the bench and pullups there at ten not 15 and do the two mile run in under 14.

Gonna strive for that first lol. I can't even run a half mile at that place right now though

Just getting the minimum won’t get you anywhere in any military selection course.

It’s cute the greyskull is just barely over the DEVGRU minimum

The greyskull test is 50% more on the lifts. That's a significant amount.

But remember it's a challenge to see where you stand fitness wise. Just like all the other challenges. And let's be honest, I was in just like you, 99% of the people I served with couldn't come close to this. There aren't many DevGru selection people coming out of greyskull and if they are it's before they even join at all, so I would say being able to complete the minimum of DevGru before joining is pretty damn good.

Btw if you can complete the legacy test to the greyskull standards you are gonna be in bad arse shape.

Can you do this?

That’s pretty beastly, and I couldn’t even come close to that now. 9 - 10 years ago training for Ranger school, I could definitely hit that 5 mile mark (probably could still hit that now with a month of training), probably wouldn’t have had any issue with the bench, but that sort of pull up test would’ve killed me. Was always and still is my weakest military fitness exercise.

I don’t know all that much about DEVGRU, but if they’re anything like CAG, the real fitness killers (and eliminators) are the endurance rucks. I’d assume DEVGRU probably has some insane swimming tests that just destroy you in place of rucking.

I had a good friend and mentor who went through CAG selection. He made it all the way through and wasn’t selected. It was interesting to me how much boils down to how you think / problem solve and how much the guys in the current organization like you and want you in.

The fitness of the guys at the very top of the food chain in the military was always very impressive to me. I once saw good friend of mine who served in Ranger Regiment and then in another OGA repeatedly Donkey Kong climb 40 foot walls at Benning. Another close friend who served as an officer in Regiment was the fittest guy I’ve ever known in any capacity. Never drank, no tobacco, ate the cleanest you could imagine, would wake up at 6 AM to ruck on Saturday mornings, could clear 400 on PT tests, etc. Amazing specimens.

Could make the pullups and bench no problem. I would not currently make the run time.

Those are way beyond my reach right now

Once I get my weight down sufficiently I'll try to tackle the first 2

You’re exactly right. The minimums don’t truly tell the tale of what it takes to get selected.

You need to be significantly above them in order to make it. The guys in ST6 are probably crushing those numbers

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Also I think I could pass it fairly easily but I'm in my early 20's and in very good shape

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Less talk. More showing.