u/ImpossibleStatus1887

In January, I enlisted as an 18X at 18 years old still in high school. At the time of selection, I will be 19 years old, and if successful, will very likely still be 19 at the start of the Q-course. I've heard recently that the age requirement for SF has been reset to the standard of being age 20 by the start of the Q (seen on Army SOF recruiting website). My contract is for 4 years, 33 weeks. SOF recruiting site also says that you need to have 36 months remaining time in service after graduating the Q, which I most certainly will not have. I'm worried that these couple things may cause problems for me. Is this worth worrying about, or am I all good because it's all written in my contract? I'd rather not be another "dude, my recruiter fucked me" guy. Thanks.

I'd like to get pointed in the right direction for implementing a stretching routine into my prep. For anyone who has been through selection or is in the army at all, what do you do to give yourself a physical advantage via stretching? I'm hoping to carry this habit into OSUT as well. Any advice helps, thanks.

When doing my 2 and 5 mile time trials, I've always just picked a pace and stuck with it the whole way through (minus picking up speed to burn gas at the very end). However, I noticed that with rucking, it's generally more efficient/accepted to do intervals of fast pace then slower paced recovery on time trials. Is this the same with runs? Should I be running for time using a different strategy than I currently am? Thanks.

I'm currently enlisted as an 18X and ship off to OSUT on 7/6 (71 days away). I have been running u/Terminator_training 's "Ruck Run Lift" program in preparation (I'm in phase 2). On many conditioning days, he gives the choice between doing a run or a ruck, saying that I should pick which one to work on based on my current proficiency in each exercise. My 2 and 5 mile run times are 14min and 40min, and my 6 mile ruck time is 1.5hrs with a 50lb ruck. I feel like these PT numbers are pretty similar in that they're all pretty sub-par lol. I know that SFAS is super ruck heavy so I've just been choosing the rucks every time. Should I continue to bias the rucks or focus more on my runs since I'm pre-OSUT and SFAS would be in roughly a year? Please let me know what you all think. I want to get as much out of this program as I can and in the right way.