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I thought initially it would be as a police officer. i couldn t sit there in a classroom to go to the police academy or anything like that. but when i saw the video on what seal training was like and i saw the guys running down the beach and shooting and diving and parachuting, i knew at that moment somehow i was fortunate enough to find that. i knew at that moment there was nothing else i wanted to do in life. you joined the marines? i joined the navy as a medic in station with the marines. in station with the marines and then you get the call after years to go be a navy seal and to do that, the training begins. the most taxing part of the training is? hell week. hell week is basic underwater seal school, 26-week school to become a seal, the fifth week is hell week and in that week, you really don t sleep and they come in and they re shooting at blanks and grenades and yelling and screaming but you re doing hundreds of thousands of pushups and pullups and sit-ups and sand wr ....
Motto, you want to be special, prove it. reporter: proving it means, surviving a training program so long, and so tough that most don t make it. they call it basic underwater s.e.a.l. school. it all starts there. my class started around 126 or 130 and graduated 22 to 25. hu-ya! every day begins with physical training, miles of swimming, running, hundreds of situps, pushups, all before the day s real work begins. even more important, than preparing the body is preparing the mind. case and point, an exercise called drown proofing. candidates hands are tied ....
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