Fighter Pilot - Page 4

Doobz · 2003-08-09, 11:16 PM

more endurance than i care to think about

Smaug · 2003-08-09, 11:44 PM

Lol yeah did you guys ever see those shows on discovery channel about navy seal training? Those guys are insane.

Navaron · 2003-08-09, 11:47 PM

Gigantic fucking balls.

GonePostal · 2003-08-10, 12:04 AM

ye but what are some of the stuff you have to do

ive heard that to complete the training you have to let your team mates drown you then bring you back which is a bit much but that would be insane to be a seal

Navaron · 2003-08-10, 12:35 AM

Originally posted by GonePostal
ye but what are some of the stuff you have to do

ive heard that to complete the training you have to let your team mates drown you then bring you back which is a bit much but that would be insane to be a seal

Umm, no. Try google.

GonePostal · 2003-08-10, 12:40 AM

ok

Squick · 2003-08-10, 12:44 AM

I think thats how it is Navaron... And for the Rangers, they throw everyone that made it to the last day into a big pit with huge spears, and the the single person that comes out alive with the most human hearts on his spear becomes a Ranger.

GonePostal · 2003-08-10, 12:51 AM

lol ok shut up

its just what i heard i dunno and im way to lazy to look on the internet cuz i dont care enough

WritheNC · 2003-08-10, 12:51 AM

I think thats how it is Navaron... And for the Rangers, they throw everyone that made it to the last day into a big pit with huge spears, and the the single person that comes out alive with the most human hearts on his spear becomes a Ranger.

ParadoxSix · 2003-08-10, 08:22 AM

This page should show you a little bit about Navy SEAL training:
http://www.navyseals.com/community/n...g_tadpoles.cfm

Some of the stuff I've read about SEAL training:
5.5 mile swim

14 mile run

Have to be able to take your equipment off underwater, and then put it back on again. This basically requires holding your breath for around five minutes, all while putting on a lot of swim gear.

Hell week, a week of extreme physical training where you only get at the most 2 hours or so of sleep. They let you sleep in a pit, but while you're supposed to be sleeping there's machine gun fire, and the sound of grenades going off around you, getting a lot of sleep isn't likely.

GonePostal · 2003-08-10, 11:31 AM

read that

and i was kinda right, you have to do a under water swim with your hands tied and your ankles tied together, they call it drown proofing, and if you do pass out then they have to revive you.

Kaltagesta · 2003-08-10, 11:39 AM

you guys hered of the bleep test?

we do it here in england at school, in PE. basically, they set up a cassette in the gym and you have run on the beep, to the other side of the hall, and get there before the beep, then immediately turn round and go back before yet another beep. This goes on for ages, satarted at walking pace, but builds up and builds up until you can barely make it even if you were sprinting from fresh, but seein gas how you have been running backwards and forwards for 20 minutes already - its hard.

i'm reasonably fit and i can get 11. My friend who runs cross country for the borough can get 15 [we are both 15 years old] fat kids get like 6. and to get into the SAS? You have to get 22. i mean, thats like an hour of running, and by the end, you are running VERY fast.

i know that the training may be more for a mental thing, and just to weed out the weaklings, but i wonder how neccessary it is, in practical terms, to be able to swim 5.5 miles? i mean, are you liekl;y to use that in the field?

GonePostal · 2003-08-10, 11:55 AM

yes, and no

you might use it in the field but its also so that you know that you can push yourself that hard. its like a mental thing

Kaltagesta · 2003-08-10, 11:56 AM

wow. this is one of the final stages of SAS application: [a real quote from a book]

"The third week included a fully equipped run up and down the steep slopes of Pen-y-Fan three times in under 8 hours............ each day involved not less than 15 hours of marching so sprains and blisters took a heavy toll.
Finally, less than 30 applicants survived the final test known as Long Drag.
This was 45 mile cross country bash carrying a 50 pound Bergen (checked without warning by the staff) 12 pound belt kit and 18 pound rifle without a sling. The exercise is the equivalent of 3 consecutive marathons when steep terrain and the burdens are considered. If you take over 20 hours to finish you are failed. And sometimes, for no given reason, some of those who succeed are failed anyway" Ran Fiennes, from "Living Dangerously".

Lexington_Steele · 2003-08-10, 01:29 PM

Originally posted by Call-The-Gestap
If you take over 20 hours to finish you are failed. And sometimes, for no given reason, some of those who succeed are failed anyway" Ran Fiennes, from "Living Dangerously".

Is it just me, or is it retarded to fail people who pass a crazy ass test for no reason.