Changes to Special Forces course draw scrutiny
An overnight land navigation test in North Carolina is just one hurdle in the grueling, months-long course to join the Army's elite Special Forces. For the nearly 200 candidates working through Hoffman Forest at Camp Mackall, the struggle to become a Green Beret endures. But Army commanders are making sweeping changes to shorten and revamp the course in order to meet evolving national security threats and to shift from a culture that weeds out struggling soldiers at every point to one that trains them to do better.
