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Well you're gonna have to walk a couple of miles through some teargas while bearing the combined weight of a rucksack and a dummy(270 lbs!) 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_Pyvx9GrQ
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They are the real deal. Not a Marine I met would make the standard. Best of the best.
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The guys wearing the gas masks remind me of professors who were forced to read abstract idiosyncratic dense material, the intellectual equivalent of teargas, and what they say makes no futzing sense: Do it because I did it. There is an element of sadistic pleasure in it. The ritual reified is meaningless. At this stage you tell the Recons to futz off, all your professors to futz off and you realize , you yourself are a maestro without any of the external nonsense.
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Para-rescue are pretty bad-ass too. 
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What a crock of sht... The US military should save themselves a sht load of training costs for that crap by just sending the soldier wannabes somewhere in America and tell them to protest for freedom. You want to learn about tear gas survival?
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illmyrin posted:
What a crock of sht... The US military should save themselves a sht load of training costs for that crap by just sending the soldier wannabes somewhere in America and tell them to protest for freedom. You want to learn about tear gas survival?
Damn you. I was going to say those guys are about half as tough as your average OWS protestor.
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Many of us have had to carry fred
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PhillsburyBandit posted:
Well you're gonna have to walk a couple of miles through some teargas while bearing the combined weight of a rucksack and a dummy(270 lbs!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP_Pyvx9GrQ
What a bunch of cry baby pussies... Not a single one of them would make it past hell week...
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Looked like everyone carrying Fred had dumped their ruck on a buddy.
Probably a hard march for basic trainees, but it didn't look unreasonable for a leg unit. I dunno WTF they were sniveling about. Try a 40 mile movement-to-contact in a snowy woods with sub-zero temperatures instead of just walking up a road in the sun.
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" So you wanna be a Recon Marine? "
No I don't actually, that shit looks nasty!!
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Koneg posted:
Para-rescue are pretty bad-ass too.
Yeah, but Pararescue are Tier 1 special forces like Delta or Seal Team 6.
If I recall correctly, Tier 2 are Navy Seals and Green Berets and Tier 3 are Rangers and Marine Recon.
Marine Recon are tough alright, but Pararescue are a lot tougher. Marine Recon have tried out for Navy Seals and failed. Navy Seals have tried out for Pararescue and failed.
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They all have different missions. Saying one is better or tougher than the other is ignorant.
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Thugoneous posted:
They all have different missions. Saying one is better or tougher than the other is ignorant.
I guess your saying our special forces are ignorant. They divided themselves into three tiers, according to their abilities and level of training.
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i reckon the most crazy/interesting training they do is the psychological stuff when training them for being captured.
a good friend of mine was a clearance diver and before he was sent to the gulf he had to go through it. they are so good at it now that many of the participants actually feel like they have been captured. They have to actually "rescue" them and do a proper debrief in order for the participants to beleive they are free.
Sounds really dangerous to me but also extremely facinating
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smellymotor posted:
i reckon the most crazy/interesting training they do is the psychological stuff when training them for being captured.
a good friend of mine was a clearance diver and before he was sent to the gulf he had to go through it. they are so good at it now that many of the participants actually feel like they have been captured. They have to actually "rescue" them and do a proper debrief in order for the participants to beleive they are free.
Sounds really dangerous to me but also extremely facinating
Sometimes it turns into headline news... we don't hear about it being faked though.
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smellymotor posted:
i reckon the most crazy/interesting training they do is the psychological stuff when training them for being captured.
a good friend of mine was a clearance diver and before he was sent to the gulf he had to go through it. they are so good at it now that many of the participants actually feel like they have been captured. They have to actually "rescue" them and do a proper debrief in order for the participants to beleive they are free.
Sounds really dangerous to me but also extremely facinating
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smellymotor posted:
i reckon the most crazy/interesting training they do is the psychological stuff when training them for being captured.
Has far more to do with weeding out "quitters" than with conditioning them to withstand capture/torture, although I'm sure that's part of it too. Before you get to be special operations they want to be certain that when they drop you in the pot you... Will. Not. Quit.
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from the stories i have heard, it wouldnt surprise me if you could convince someone to do some nasty stuff and not even realise it
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smellymotor posted:
from the stories i have heard, it wouldnt surprise me if you could convince someone to do some nasty stuff and not even realise it
Check out what green berets have to do on their first training day LOl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTVLKGsZCKc
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Special ops units from all our branch's of service have their share of large scrotum possessing patriots.
However in my experiences the SEALs while not a true notch higher in skill, were definitely a few higher in crazy.
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PhillsburyBandit posted:
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fcuk no.
Partly because I grew up around lots of different service types and know what that entails.
Keep me in the rear with the gear, baby...
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