Sentences of the week

"Fine I dont need anaesthetic. Set the leg without it. I can take the pain."

"Well, in the view most Navy SEAL's, the public dows not have the right to know, not if it means placing our lived in unnecessary peril because someone in Washington is driving himself mad worrying about human rights of some cold-hearted terrorist fanatic who would kill us as soon as he looks at us, as well as any other American at whom he could point that wonkey old AK of his."

"These were dangerous days at the conclusion of the formal conflict."

Lone Survivor
  Marcus Luttrell

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Patience is a virtue

Since I was a kid patience has been beaten into my head by both of my parents. Even today I still have a bit of patience…but I can get a little impatient at times..don't tell my parents that. What I am really trying to get at is the fact that anytime you are thinking about going into any of the armed forces you have to have patience. I think the SEAL’s have to be the most patient people out of anyone. In the book Lone Survivor SEAL team 10 is instructed to get on a C-130 which is a huge military plane. The SEAL’s end up sitting on the plane for countless hours. Each and every one of the SEAL’s has a way to keep their mind off of the long trip that they have. Once they arrive at their destination there is no time to waste. They end up going to a small stake out point and staying there for a long time. I do not think I would be able to sit and wait there for like 12 hours. Sometimes snipers have to spend up to two weeks just looking for enemies and collecting Intel on their targets. After sitting there for quite a while they then make their way up towards a small village where they steak out some more! I completely understand why they are waiting, but I still do not believe that I could do that. I don’t think I would have anything to do for that long . I know that I have repeated a lot of things but that’s really what I am reiterating. All in all the SEAL’s have amazing patience which the average person would most likely not have. CHILLIN

The amazing strength of the human body

Well this is my first post on blogger, so this should be interesting. I am reading this book called the Lone Survivor. It is a true story about a navy SEAL team who travels to Afghanistan to take out a few terrorist. That is just a very quick and brief explanation. The main point of the blog that I am writing is the training that is needed to be a navy SEAL. Not only do you have to be in the best physical shape of your life, but you have to have a strong mind. Not just anyone can go for a run on the beach with five people while holding a full size telephone pole...sounds crazy right? But to these guys its just business as usual. As I said earlier you have to have a strong mind in order to finish all the daunting tasks that all the instructors give to you. The training that the seals have to go through is called BUD/S training which stands for basic underwater demolition SEAL. BUD/S training is a 24 week long course. More than half of the people that enlist in the BUD/s training quit before the end. The entire course is compiled of many different physically and mentally challenging tasks. Physical conditioning, diving, and land warfare make up the biggest chunks of the course. These are some of the requirements.....minimum of 500 yd swim under 12:30, 42 push ups minimum in 2 minutes, at least 6 pull ups from a dead hang minimum, and a 1.5 mile run that has to be under 10:30 and ran in boots and trousers. Those are just the requirements. All of that is a cake walk compared to "Hell week". Hell week is five days and five nights with a solid four hours of sleep.I will hit on that a little bit later once i get farther in the book. It still seems to amaze me how amazing our body's are, and what they can endure.