Give yourself a background in swimming. I only swam once in a summer league when I started training, but I spent 8 months prior to joining just being in the pool everyday and swimming up to 5000m at a time. Start off doing what you can and then work your way up. It is a matter of consistency and technique.

It will work, as long as you can practice swimming, treading, and underwaters. I would recommend looking up the total immersion swimming course.

When you have fins on you will do the Combat recovery stroke or lead arm trail arm swim. Without fins on, you will do freestyle unless you’re dragging a buddy or swimming underwater.

For selection it will be both, for dive school it's a 12ft pool.

If you push off the bottom of the pool harder, it causes you to come out of the water more, which will help you sink faster since you will have more momentum than just a dead pause at the top.

I would do some interval work, like 400-800m and do one day a week where you run 6-8 mi.

As an NCO we would expect you to act in your leadership capacity as outlined in the little brown book. You should have solid leadership skills so you can help Airmen learn, and take care of them. We also expect you to hold the team accountable and lead with integrity. As far as physical standards, it is hopeful that our NCO can lead by example.

Indoc is the most difficult in all aspects. SERE Is not really difficult it just is cold and less sleep.

I would recommend being able to tread with hands up for 3 min, the old grad standard was 2 min 30 sec. During training we do it for longer though.

In order to start the past program there are not specific benchmarks but I usually tell people as long as they can pass the AF PT test then they will be just fine. Also, you can repeat the workout as many times as you want for up to a year from your purchase date. Equipment recommendations can be found on my website here or on my amazon page here.

A little fat is totally fine, all anyone really cares about is whether or not you can perform. From what I have seen people with no fat have more trouble than those with a little fat.

You will go to phase 2 from your current duty unit and if you are selected you will be given a date to come back to Lackland to attend SW prep (shortened version).

Yes as long as they fall within AFI 36-2903.

There will not be as much watercon, but there will be events that don't require skill in order to test fortitude. The more technical events will be saved for predive which will immediately follow selection.

Yes, for some reason that one doesn’t last a year like a normal one does.

Practice without resting with your butt in the air. Know that the rules can change at any time, so be prepared.

You are allowed to do any stroke you want. But it is highly recommended you use free style.