"Narrator:" "The U.S. Military's elite schools turn soldiers into razor-sharp weapons." "[Machine-gun fire]" "To become the best of the best, these men go to hell and back." "Get lower!" "[Groans]" "I can't see!" "Aah!" "We're trying to push them to the breaking point." "Instructor:" "This is your life now." "You're hard-core!" "Let's go!" "Narrator:" "Air Force Pararescuemen are the most highly trained search-and-rescue experts in special operations." "The mental and physical requirements of the job are staggering." "Instructor:" "What did I say about that weapon?" "Fire back!" "Return fire!" "Narrator:" "Just getting selected for training is the challenge of a lifetime." "Get up there!" "Your whole team's sucking it up, and you're the only one falling off the fence!" "Instructor:" "You got to be kidding me." "9 out of 10 will fail." "Instructor:" "Shot in the head." "To the back." "Go!" "Narrator:" "A select few will survive the cut." "Instructor:" "You guys are supposed to be the best in the business at rescuing people!" "You got patients relying on you guys!" "Narrator:" "When a soldier is wounded deep behind enemy lines, pararescuemen are the ones who stop at nothing to get him out alive." "Their motto..." ""That others may live."" "Ogden:" "P.J. Is just being there for other people when no one else can be." "When it's the worst and no one else can go rescue that one person, that they know they can call on somebody." "I want to be that guy to get there." "Narrator:" "Called P.J. S, or parajumpers, they can infiltrate and survive any environment, and they must also be skilled combat medics." "Full training takes two years, but just to get in the door, airmen must first pass this nine-week course, one of the toughest selection programs in all the military." "120 airmen assemble at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas." "Instructor:" "Atten-hut!" "Go." "Go." "Narrator:" "For the first five weeks, the class is pushed through a relentless regime." "Fitness..." "Water confidence..." "And grueling team events." "Ethridge:" "Every day, we have a run, calisthenics, weight training, and then water confidence, and it's every single day." "It's like "Groundhog Day" for the students." "All:" "Hoo-ah!" "V-up!" "Instructor:" "Exercise." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7." "One!" "Minshew:" "The physical workload on the students is gonna increase." "And it's gonna continually progress each week." "The standard is gonna go up." "It's gonna get harder." "Instructor:" "1, 2, 3... 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!" "Ogden:" "For the first couple weeks of the course, it's nothing but mass confusion in your head, and you're just wondering the whole time, "Holy crap." "Am I gonna be able to do this for nine weeks?"" "Instructor: 1, 2, 3." "O'Donnell:" "Indoctrination... it's basically a nine-week period where you get pushed to your limits every day." "Instructor:" "Down." "Begin to realize, this is either gonna make me or break me." "I'm either gonna become a pararescueman or I'm gonna find out where my limitations are." "Narrator:" "Each day, the events get harder, and each day, a few more airmen quit." "I no longer want to be here." "[Air horn blares]" "Ethridge:" "The training progresses each week, on an upward curve." "The day-in-and-day-out training of working out four to five hours a day takes its toll." "Get out of here." "Narrator:" "The students who are eliminated put on their dress blues, stand outside the Commandant's office, and wait to be relieved from the course." "It's a scene of crushed hope that repeats daily." "By week 5, only 23 of the original 120 airmen remain." "Now they face their greatest challenge, something the P.J. S call extended training day." "Survive the next 21 hours of pure hell, and the dream of becoming a P.J. Just may become a reality." "Extended training day starts at 2:00 a.m." "Instructor:" "0200 in the morning." "Right now, we're about to start the extended training day." "So, the students have been asleep probably for about at least four or five hours right now." "They're nice and buttoned down, so we're gonna go wake them up." "They're gonna get their first lesson on what it feels like to perform here." "This is gonna be the hardest day for the course." "We're gonna be making that rule." "[Air horn blares]" "Let's go!" "Get up!" "Narrator:" "Extended training day is a marathon meant to simulate the extreme demands of the P.J. Mission." "You guys got three minutes!" "If they can survive this, they can survive anything." "Let's go!" "Wake up!" "Combat search-and-rescue deploy on a moment's notice." "P.J. S have to react quickly." "Instructor:" "What are you guys doing?" "!" "Get out!" "Let's go!" "Get out!" "Move!" "Move!" "Get out!" "Helicopter's leaving, and you're not on it!" "Let's go!" "Move!" "Move!" "Move!" "Instructor ♪2:" "This is the start of your extended training day." "Start showing a sense of urgency." "You guys need to be falling out right now on your rucks, formed up." "You are already in uniform!" "There's no excuse for why you're not out here yet!" "Let's go!" "Hurry up!" "All:" "Hoo-ah, Lieutenant." "Day has just begun!" "Get moving." "Low crawl up the hill." "Go." "Hurry up!" "Go!" "Go!" "Get down!" "Get down!" "You better have a ruck on your back, a weapon!" "Let's go!" "Narrator:" "Geared up with 60-pound packs, they low-crawl 50 yards uphill, to their first event." "Get your head down!" "[Siren wailing]" "Want it to get shot off?" "!" "Get your head down!" "Get your head down!" "Shot in the head." "To the back." "Go!" ""I got to get to that cover."" "You guys are in a fire fight, and you're not gonna bring your head up." "I promise you." "Head's gonna stay low, and you're gonna get to your objective, which is cover and concealment." "Up!" "Who's that?" "Who just looked up?" "Who's that?" "Right there." "Soldier:" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "You just looked up, got shot right in the forehead." "Guess what you get to do?" "Start over." "Go to the back." "Hurry up!" "Narrator:" "The instructors' goal today is simple... place as much physical and emotional stress as safely possible on each man." "What are you doing?" "!" "Where's your buddies at?" "!" "Where's your buddies at?" "!" "Why are you up here?" "!" "Why are you wandering off alone?" "!" "Your team's back here!" "You're all by yourself!" "You're dead!" "You are dead!" "Let's go!" "Get up, Roberts." "Get out of here." "Guys, you got 30 seconds." "We're being afraid of getting a little dirty." "It's a little bit of mud." "You guys, on your feet." "Join the rest of your team." "Hurry up." "Narrator:" "The men who reach the top of the hill first do flutter kicks while they wait for their classmates." "Flutter kicks, team." "Hurry up." " Exercise. 1, 2, 3." "All: 1!" " 1, 2, 3." " 2!" " 1, 2, 3." " 3!" " 1, 2, 3." " 4!" " 1, 2, 3." " 5!" " 1, 2, 3." " 6!" " 1, 2, 3." " 7!" " 1, 2, 3." " 8!" " 1, 2, 3." " 9!" " 1, 2, 3." " 10!" "Get 'em up, Palmer!" "Get 'em up!" "Any questions?" "Negative, Sergeant!" "Narrator:" "The class gears up and heads off." "They don't know how far they're going, but they do know they'd better run." "Minshew:" "Their reaction this morning when we woke them up was pretty typical, how it normally goes." "I think they were trying to take it easy a little bit." "They know that if they put out too much in the beginning, then they're not gonna have anything else left in the end." "And the intensity stays pretty high during the duration of this." "Cervantes:" "It's dark out here." "They don't know how far they're going." "They just know they got to put out." "That's really what this whole event today is about." "It's not about making guys quit." "It's actually supposed to do the opposite." "It's supposed to show these guys that they're able to go faster and longer than they actually ever imagined." "Narrator:" "Knowing they have 19 hours left of nonstop punishment, a few airmen attempt to pace themselves." "Who is this in the back?" "I can tell you already..." "this is not a walking event." "Ogden:" "The worst during ETD is just having no sleep, no breakfast, and going right into a ruck, sopping wet and covered in mud, and you're just thinking, "Holy crap." "Is it ever gonna end?"" "Minshew:" "Go right here to me." "Line it up." "Narrator:" "The first few airmen cross the finish line." "Line it up right here." "Name and rank." "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "O'Donnell, A-1 C, and I feel fine." "Any injuries?" "Negative, Sergeant." "Get out of here." "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "Narrator:" "This 21 -hour day is so brutal on the body that the instructors must constantly monitor the health of each airman." "Ogden, Airman First Class, Sergeant." "I feel fine." "No injuries?" "Negative, Sergeant." "Hydrate." "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "Cervantes:" "Hurry up." "You guys better pick it up." "You better pick up the pace." "You're not gonna make that exfil platform." "Let's go, O'Brien." "All the way to the end." "Soldier:" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant!" "Narrator:" "With the clock running out, more candidates reach the finish." "Umstead." "Airman, First Class." "No injuries, Sergeant." "Markovitch:" "Markovitch." "Airman." "Minshew:" "Any injuries?" "Negative, Sergeant." " Are you sure?" " Not yet." " Are they coming?" " Negative." "The injuries are coming?" "Negative." "Graduation is coming." "Narrator:" "Time is up." "Five airmen have not made it to the finish line in time." "Cervantes: 4:07." "Seven minutes over time." "Orny, do you need to seek medical attention?" " Hoo-ah, Sergeant." " You do?" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "Narrator:" "Every event in extended training day has a standard." "Miss it and you get a failure to train." "Get too many or demonstrate a lack of motivation, and you'll fail the course." "Why did you quit on yourself?" "The rest of your team made the time." "You guys didn't." "Sergeant, I didn't quit." " Go over there." " Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "Cervantes:" "There's a reason why you didn't make it!" "What is that reason?" "Tell me a reason!" "What are we doing wrong as instructors?" "'Cause I'm pretty sure these instructors have taught you guys how to run." "Why are we walking?" "!" "Are you gonna hold back out there in the battlefield?" "No, Sergeant." "I'd keep on going." "You're gonna keep on going?" "No, you wouldn't have." "You would be dead." "Once you leave here, it's not like this!" "All you guys are receiving a failure to train." "You're getting a failure to train." "You do that again, I'm gonna pull you from training." "Get on that bus." "Hurry up." "Hoo-ah." "Minshew:" "We're in our first couple hours, still, of the day." "They're going straight into a pool session that's gonna be one of the toughest pool sessions that they've gone through." "Ogden:" "The biggest struggle here for most people is the water confidence." "Definitely, for me, that's the hardest point of the course." "It's all mental." "Instructor:" "Get 'em up 6 inches." "Flutter kicks." "Lead 'em out." " 1, 2, 3." "All: 1!" " 1, 2, 3." " 2!" "Narrator:" "Air Force Pararescue are experts at saving lives in all environments, but water is the most demanding." "Straighten out your legs, you." "Narrator:" "The screening for water confidence is intense." "Off the deck!" "Get 'em up!" "Narrator:" "They must be able to resist panic, even in extremely adverse conditions." "Keep your legs straight." "Point your toes." "Hoo-ah!" "[All shouting]" "You have no response." "Straight into the water." "Umstead:" "Water, without a doubt, is the one thing that equalizes every man." "Instructor:" "Into the water." "Line it up." "In the water, Sergeant." "The idea that you're gonna have to be underwater, hold your breath till it's uncomfortable, till you're ready to quit, till you can't stand it anymore, come up, and then do it again." "Instructor:" "Are you guys the ones that can't do it?" "All:" "Negative, Sergeant!" "Then [bleep] Prove me wrong and do the damn underwaters as a team." "Nobody comes up." "Everybody goes subsurface." "Nobody scurves." "Racicot:" "That's the biggest mental game, sitting on the side of the pool, getting ready." "You know that they're about to make you wish you were dead." "Instructor:" "Ones ready." "All:" "One, Sergeant!" "Go!" "Narrator:" "The first event is to swim 25 yards without breaking the surface, fully clothed, wearing combat equipment." "Every airman has done this before, but today, the mental and physical pressure has skyrocketed." "Instructors watch each man for signs of panic." "If an airman surfaces, the instructors will smash the water around them, simulating high-wind conditions at sea." "Get down, Palmer!" "Get down, Palmer!" "Narrator:" "Airman Palmer is on his second attempt but comes up short again." "Trying to breathe in water-soaked air is pure agony." "Palmer, that's your second failure to train." "You failed to train in the ruck." "Now you're failing to train in the pool." "You're a failure." "Instructor:" "Palmer." "What are you doing?" "Who told you to get out of the pool?" "Get your mask up." "When you fail, it only gets harder." "Go!" "Narrator:" "Palmer is given one final chance, but if he fails, he is out." "He makes it just 15 yards." "Get out of the pool, Palmer." "Get out of the pool." "Exit the pool." "Exit the pool right here." "You're done." "Narrator:" "After five weeks of hell," "Palmer is removed from training." "22 airmen remain." "Fall out on your gear." "You're gonna head back to the schoolhouse." "You're gonna fill out your 475." "Narrator:" "On a case-by-case basis, some washouts will be allowed to repeat the entire course from the beginning." "Another airman starts to lose consciousness and is yanked from the water." "Get out of the pool." "Get over here." "Narrator:" "Airman Simons is taken poolside for evaluation by the medics." "Sit down on the deck." "Get out of the pool." "Instructor:" "Can you train?" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "What happened?" "I don't know." "I was gonna come up, and then..." "Where you at?" "Narrator:" "Euphoria is a symptom of o xygen depletion, and the instructors take it very seriously." "[Distinctly] Where are you at, Simons?" "I'm at the pool." "Stand up." "Hoo-ah." "Stand up." "Walk over here." "Holding onto you so you don't fall over." "Don't want you to pass out again." "Narrator:" "For his own safety," "Simons is pulled from extended training day." "Make sure you recover so you know where you are." "Back on your gear!" "Narrator:" "The instructors are all seasoned P.J. S, highly trained medics who know exactly what danger signs to look for." "And they know just how far they can safely push the men." "Go!" "Simons recovers from the blackout but doesn't want to re-enter the pool." "Hurry up, Simons!" "He decides to quit the course." "Simons:" "I quit." "[Air horn blares]" "Narrator:" "After five hours of nonstop testing, 20 of the 23 who started extended training day remain." "The next event is everybody's nightmare." "Minshew:" "Well, right now, we're doing the buddy breathing training." "What we're looking for is for these guys to stay confident, be able to pass the snorkel back and forth." "Stay with your buddy!" "Breathe with the snorkel!" "Narrator:" "Each team must deal with the aggression of the instructor while passing back and forth a single air source to breathe." "This way!" "This way!" "He's over here!" "Narrator:" "The buddy breathing exercise is designed to replicate the high stress P.J. S encounter when rescuing drowning people in rough seas." "What are you doing?" "!" "Get your buddy." "Umstead:" "It tests strengths, but it also tests mental endurance... apart from being out of breath, the mental aspect that you have no clue when it's gonna end." "Who are you buddy-breathing with... me?" "!" "Instructor ♪2:" "Get down, sir!" "Get your face in the water!" "Breathe off the snorkel!" "Narrator:" "In a rescue, the panicking victim can make for an all-out fight to remain conscious." "Racicot:" "The first thing when you're about to pass out is, you lose your hearing." "You'll get loud ringing in your hearing and limbs begin to go numb." "The last thing to go is your vision." "You'll get a white vision, and it goes black." "You just feel like you're falling asleep." "O'Donnell:" "It kind of sneaks up on you a little bit." "You'll be down there, doing what you need to do, and then you'll go hypo xic, which is what happens right before you black out." "You get kind of, like, this tingly sensation, and then next thing you know, you're getting pulled up to the surface." "Narrator:" "Several minutes into buddy breathing, the instructors see Airman Eckstein starting to black out." "They quickly bring him poolside." "Passing out briefly is not uncommon during such intense training, but instructors monitor every man constantly." "Instructor:" "Eckstein." "Hey." "Get your hands up!" "Hey, Eckstein." "Eckstein." "Hey, buddy, breathe." "Hey." "[Eckstein moans]" "Eckstein, wake up." "Wake up." "You all right?" "Eckstein:" "What happened, Sergeant?" "You just blacked out." "Narrator:" "After a medical evaluation," "Eckstein is removed from extended training day." "He will recycle back five weeks to strengthen his abilities in the pool." "Extended training day is just getting started..." "Cervantes:" "Let's go." "Sit down." "And six airmen are already gone from the class." "You guys are in a little battle right now, getting your asses kicked." "Do you realize that?" "You guys are being looked at right now." "Your reputation starts right here... among your peers, among your instructors, guys that are gonna be working with you again." "Put out 100% and you'll have no problems." "All:" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "Instructor:" "You guys have three minutes to get in your uniform." "Go." "Narrator:" "They have just completed the water confidence test." "Now they're instructed to quickly gear up for the next event." "Do not start off not making this timeline." "Boots on." "Let's go, gentlemen." "Too slow." "Stop what you're doing right now." "Exercise." "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7." "All: 1!" "Long:" "Not really much for recovery time." "You get maybe 15, 20 minutes in between events." "You do have to be in pretty good shape, but it really is 90% mental." "It's just, knowing all the stuff that you have to do all day, you get yourself worked up." "Rutledge:" "Selection is very difficult, intense." "You definitely have to have..." "I hate to use it, but the "A" -type personality, the person that thinks on his feet." "Instructor:" "Carry on." "Narrator:" "The P.J. Mission is to pull the dead and wounded from the battlefield, often under hostile fire." "The next two hours drive that point home." "You guys must be able to perform the objectives that are being tasked to you." "Our testing environment..." "it's treating patients." "It's doing mass casualties." "It's going in the hot L.Z.s." "It's jumping out in the middle of the night, when no one else can go somewhere." "There's no chance for failing grades." "You either pass or you die." "Go." "Narrator:" "They have 15 minutes to pair off and perform two different methods for extricating a wounded soldier from the battlefield." "First up, the fireman's carry for 150 yards." "You need to have access to that weapon in your hand, ready to fire." "Instructor:" "What did I say about that weapon?" "What did I say about that weapon?" "Sergeant Ethridge is the enemy." "Fire back right now!" "Lombardo, fire back." "Lombardo:" "You think you understand what a team is before you come in, but they really put that to the test, and I feel like I'm really a part of something right now." "Narrator:" "Next, each two-man team must get a 200-pound dummy 30 yards up a muddy slope." "Instructor:" "You're gonna go out and grab your buddy that got shot in gunfire, drag him back." "Narrator:" "One man drags, the other low-crawls and provides security." "Get your head down." "Stop dragging that guy by his arms." "Come on, Roberts." "Cradle him." "All the way through." "All the way through." "Roberts:" "It is really painful, but I like to challenge myself, especially physically." "If you really want to be a pararescueman, it's something you'll put up with." "It's something that you'll go through and never quit." "You say that every day to yourself... "never quit."" "[Grunts]" "Instructor:" "It's just a little mud." "Dig your toes in." "Pump with your legs." "Come on." "Get up here." "Narrator:" "With just seconds to spare, the last two airmen complete the extraction drills, but they are far from done." "They now have 10 minutes to move a 200-pound dummy one mile around a track." "Down, team, down." "They call it the Mogadishu Mile, after the real-life P.J. Rescue operation during Black Hawk Down." "Go!" "Instructor:" "Let's go, guys." "Nice pace, guys." "Kilbride:" "It's kind of a re-enactment or just to remind everybody of events that happened in the real world, like in Mogadishu, where the guys actually had to carry litters and evacuate people, you know, at least a mile through the streets of Mogadishu" "to evacuate and to get guys to a safe area." "So, this is actual real-world stuff that the guys will be doing." "It's mostly a team event, where they have to swap out the litter so that one guy is not carrying the load the whole time." "Get out front." "Fresh guys got to push up the pace." "Narrator:" "The airmen use a low-carry technique, where their elbows are slightly flexed." "Bent arms are stronger than straight ones." "The weight of the stretcher is distributed over six men, each supporting 40 pounds." "Switch it out!" "Narrator:" "Swapping out and changing sides saves arm strength." "You can see in the distance." "Some of those guys are a little bit behind, and that's pretty typical." "The guys finish their pull, their load, and then they drop off, and then they realize they're falling behind their formation." "They got to run to catch up." "Trying to simulate getting in a helicopter, an aircraft, that comes in under fire... you got to get on the helicopter and go." "These events all test working together as a team." "Soldier:" "Pull, pull, pull." "Narrator:" "They have less than a minute to go the last 75 yards, and they're spent." "Almost there, guys." "Pick it up!" "Narrator:" "If they don't make it, they'll all repeat the Mogadishu Mile until they get it right." "Pull forward, guys." "Here we go." "Come on, come on, come on, come on, move!" "All the way across." "All the way across." "The whole team." "The whole team." "Narrator:" "They cross the finish line with 20 seconds to spare... their first victory of the day." "Hydrate." "Soldier ♪2:" "Hydrate, guys." "Instructor:" "Go, Long." "Narrator:" "Over the next seven hours, they swim 1.2 miles of open water and endure endless team events." "All:" "One!" "The men push themselves harder than ever before, in constant fear of being yanked from the course." "Soldier:" "Hoo-ah!" "Physically, there's probably nobody alive that can give 100% for 20 hours straight with the things that we're asking them to do." "In the real world, they can come back tired from a mission and have to turn around, reconstitute, and go back out." "And they're just gonna have to keep pressing on and not worry about their physical comfort." "Narrator:" "The airmen of Class 10-04 are now 13 hours into their 21 -hour extended training day." "Lean forward." "One step, one step, one step, one step." "There you go." "Narrator:" "Only 14 of the original 23 men remain." "Instructor:" "Pick your head up!" "They are now 3 miles into a 4-mile forced march." "Quit feeling sorry for yourself!" "Narrator:" "Crushed by their 70-pound packs, they still have eight hours to go." "The class heads into the woods, where they learn their next mission." "Cervantes:" "Here's your mission." "Down CH-47 in the wood line, you got to recover 14 bodies." "You got one hour to make the exfil site." "You're gonna move through here." "You're gonna gather those bodies." "You're gonna get them on that aircraft." "Instructor:" "Known enemy in the area." "Known enemy in the area." "Narrator:" "On their way to a crash site, the airmen have no idea what they're about to face... [gunfire]" "[Instructor shouting orders]" "But they must react to whatever comes their way." "Get off the road!" "Let's go!" "Get your head down!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Get your head down, Rutledge!" "Let's go!" "You're taking fire!" "Low crawl." "Instructor:" "Keep your weapon off the ground!" "You don't drag your weapon on the ground!" "Let's go!" "Stay low." "Stay low." "Get control of your weapon!" "Low crawl!" "You got patients relying on you guys!" "You guys are supposed to be the best in the business at rescuing people in any scenario... night, day, water, land!" "You guys are supposed to be the best!" "Move!" "Let's go!" "Cervantes:" "They're tired, they're weary, they're dehydrated, and we're asking them to do these tasks under stressful conditions because it mimics what they're gonna see out in the operational environment." "One of the ways that we induce that stress is by getting in their face and yelling at them." "Elbows, knees, elbows, knees!" "Get to where you got to be." "Move it, Markovitch!" "Let's go!" "When they're out there in the mountains of Afghanistan and they've been out for two days, the stress isn't gonna be an instructor getting in their face." "The stress is gonna be gunshots being shot." "Markovitch, I told you to high-crawl." "Narrator:" "High stress and fatigue makes coordination nearly impossible." "Get over that wall!" "Don't stop!" "It's ongoing!" "Get into the weeds." "Get in the weeds." "Here, fall into the weeds." "[Gunfire continues]" "Instructor:" "Let's go, let's go, let's go!" "Soldier:" "Can you grab that water?" "Narrator:" "As the airmen reach a checkpoint, they're running on fumes." "Instructor:" "Get your heads up right now." "Basinger, head up." "Marko, head up." "You can do this, guys." "Cervantes:" "Get your game face back on." "Regroup yourself." "Get ahold of yourself, Markovitch, or I'm gonna have no choice but to pull you from training." "Training must continue." "Training will continue." "The rest of your team is manning up right now, and they're moving on with the mission." "So, you guys, take a deep breath, get your ruck back on, Basinger, and get back in the fight." "Basinger:" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant!" "Instructor:" "Forward march." "Let's go." "Lieutenant, 20 minutes, all these bodies in that casualty-collection point." "Hurry up." "Go." "Narrator:" "Depleted of all strength, the airmen reach the mass-casualty site." "Now the hard work starts." "Everybody, grab a body right now." "Go!" "Minshew:" "When they see firsthand that this is the kind of stressful type of situations they can be in, some people might say this is not for them." "They have to know right now, doing tasks like this, that this is what they signed up for." "This is what they're getting into." "Instructor:" "Grab the patient." "He's dead." "Get him on the litter." "Let's go." "This type of scenario is easy compared to what these men may be called upon to see and do." "The worst things that I've seen have been not in training, but have been overseas." "[Siren wailing]" "Up, team, up!" "What's going on?" "Who's in control of this mess?" " Who's in control?" " Where are they going?" "Narrator:" "The airmen are delirious and lack direction." "They have no idea what to do with the bodies." "Minshew:" "Lieutenant, nobody even knows where the casualty-collection point is." "You need to disseminate the information to your team, all right?" "Go." "Everybody, casualty-collection point." "Narrator:" "The instructors place Lieutenant Sodomeyer in charge, on the spot." "O'Donnell, where are you going?" "What are you doing, O'Donnell?" "Narrator:" "The men must carry casualties half a mile away, to a rescue aircraft." "We got to move." "We got to move." "But the mission is far from over." "Their arms have seized up from carrying bodies, but they're not done yet." "Instructor:" "Let's go." "No, that one right there." "Get it off the litter and go." "Right now." "Let's go." "We need seven, right?" "We need seven?" "All right." "Minshew:" "Right now, the students have collected all the simulated patients." "All of them were casualties, K.I.A." "They've moved them from one objective, and now they're moving them to the simulated exfil platform, which is just an old C-130 we've got here." "Let's go, men!" "Make it happen!" "Mannequins weigh about 200 pounds, so they're pretty spent right now, and we're just gonna keep pushing them." "This is one of those things that lets them know that it's part of the job." "Soldier:" "Run back here and help, quick." "Instructor:" "Let's go." "Soldier:" "Help over here!" "Why are you carrying that patient like a dead pig?" "Narrator:" "An instructor jumps on a group of airmen and reminds them just how serious their job is." "Who wants to lay down right now and get carried through the woods like that?" "Who wants their family member carried through the woods like that?" "Let's do a fireman's carry." "Narrator:" "Exhaustion is no excuse for disrespect." "Grab your buddy's ruck." "Grab your buddy's weapon." "Think!" "Here, somebody take my weapon." "Here's my ruck." "I know I told you guys this afternoon not to drag the patients up the hill by the arms." "So what makes you think you can come out here and drag him by the arms and legs?" "Narrator:" "Battles rage for days on end." "P.J. S do not rest when there are wounded to rescue." "The class is destroyed, but they must head right back out to take supplies to a second casualty site, over a mile away." "Instructor:" "Let's go!" "Grab a jerrican!" "Let's go!" "Cervantes:" "What they're doing now, they just got to follow on mission." "They grabbed the bodies from the crash site." "Now they have to simulate moving precious cargo to the other extrication site." "With their rucksacks on, they're carrying 50-pound jerricans for about a mile." "So, as you can see, they're pretty wore out." "They've had a long day." "And so, again, just testing their mental stamina and really having them dig deep and finish out strong." "Ogden:" "You know after one hard event, you're just gonna get hit with another one." "That's where you have to just play that mental game on yourself, just being like," ""It's not gonna end for a long time, but I'm just gonna finish this event and get to the next one."" "Let's go, Umstead." "Narrator:" "Ogden and Umstead still have 1/4 mile to go, but their arms have nothing left." "If they can't finish, they'll fail extended training day." "Umstead:" "The best way that we get through it, it's literally micromanaging each little step." "So that way, you don't look at an entire big picture and say, "I'm gonna be destroyed."" "You look at each little thing that they're telling you to do." "It's not just the physical aspect of it, though." "It's the mental." "Cervantes:" "Let's go, Umstead." "Going, Sergeant." "You got to dig deep." "Every time, Sergeant." "You got to dig deep." "Got to want it." "Doesn't come easy." "Never does, Sergeant." "That's right." "Instructor:" "Good job, fellas." "Good job, good job." "Good job." "Good work." "Your body wants to tell you that you're weak." "That's when you tell it that you're strong." "Let's go." "[Grunting]" "Narrator:" "With just 100 yards to go, Umstead is struggling." "Sliding the cans is cheating..." "Instructor:" "Umstead, push-up position on those jerricans." "And he'll pay for it." "All the way down." "Umstead:" "One." "Narrator:" "Ogden digs in and finishes." "Good to go?" "Sit down, hydrate." "[Grunting]" "Let's go." "Whew!" "You are the last man." "Your team is waiting on you." "Don't give up now." "Narrator: 18 hours into extended training day, the class expects to head back to base, but the instructors have other plans." "Instructor:" "Let's go." "Let's go!" "You guys need to be securing your gear!" "Narrator:" "They line up poolside for more pain." "You guys got five minutes..." "ready to enter the water, all your gear on." "Hurry up!" "Narrator:" "Everyone is beyond exhaustion." "Get it together!" "Narrator:" "Umstead's arms and hands are so wrecked, he can barely handle his equipment." "[Metal clattering]" "Instructor ♪2:" "Holy crap." "Guys, hurry up." "Umstead, give me those?" "Give me those." "Umstead, if I tell you to do something, you do it." "Narrator:" "An instructor steps in to check his heart rate." "He's cleared to continue." "You're all right, Umstead." "Come on." "Narrator:" "To make it through these final events will take their last ounce of strength." "Everybody's feet should be touching that top pole!" "Get up there, Long." "Get up and get over here." "Get up there!" "Your whole team's sucking it up, and you're the only one falling off the fence!" "Narrator:" "The entire class has pushed themselves beyond the physical." "It's all mental now." "You got to be kidding." "Umstead:" "It was at the point where we didn't care what they made us do." "We were all so tired and fatigued, it didn't matter." "We could have been there all night." "It wouldn't have mattered." ""It's just the next step." "It's just the next step."" "Get the [bleep] Up there." "[Grunting]" "Get up there!" "You're weak!" "Markovitch, get up there!" "Are you serious?" "!" "You guys don't want to do this?" "Recover." "Recover." "Hurry up." "Line up on the deep end." "Push-up position." "Let's go." "Go." "Narrator:" "At this point of exhaustion, subsurface events are too dangerous." "Go!" "Instead, they'll enter, swim across, and exit the pool 20 times." "Go!" " 1, 2, 3." "All: 2!" " Pick your head up!" " 3!" "Pick your head up!" "Heym:" "You just kind of go into a zone, and you know you have to get through it." "It's something you have to do, and I don't know." "For me, I just turn into a machine and do whatever it is they're asking me to do." " 1, 2, 3." "All: 9!" " 1, 2, 3." " 10!" "Go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Ogden:" "When your body gets that sleep-deprived and tired, you just get to that point of," ""Okay, I'm doing this." "I don't know how."" "Go!" "And it's amazing what you can do, and then it almost gets exciting, 'cause you're like, "Wow, I did not think" "I could get through that last event, and yet, I just finished it."" "So then you're like, "Well, I guess I can do this next thing."" "Narrator:" "One last test..." "buddy breathing... again." "Go." "And one last lesson." "Even when he has almost nothing left, a P.J. Gives his all so that others may live." "How am I gonna trust you to push drugs on a patient?" "How am I gonna trust you to [bleep] have a rifle behind me and a staff?" "Find your buddy, Kropp!" "Find your buddy, Kropp!" "Find your buddy!" "Get away from the gunnel!" "Time, time, time!" "Send 'em back." "Get 'em all their gear." "Hurry up." "Narrator:" "Finally... it's over." "It's been 20 hours since they started extended training day." "The remaining class assembles outside headquarters." "A final ritual remains." "Cervantes: 1... 2... 3..." "Together, 14 men carry the 1,200-pound training log." "Soldier:" "Hoo-ah, Sergeant." "It represents teamwork." "Not one individual can lift it by himself." "He needs his teammates." "Narrator:" "In 21 hours, 14 individuals have become part of a team." "Up." "What they've learned is simple, yet profound." "Human capacity is far greater than we think." "All:" "Two!" "Down." "Three!" "Four!" "Five!" "Six!" "Seven!" "Eight!" "Nine!" "10!" "Hoo-ah!" "Down, team." "Down." "Narrator:" "According to tradition, the class bear-crawls inside." "Team, take seats." "All:" "Hoo-ah!" "Narrator:" "On the table before them lie 14 blue ascots, the hallmark of pararescue." "They're awarded upon completion of extended training day." "Started with 23 today." "Only 14 of you are left." "ETD is over." "Once you guys make it through this, you're no longer being selected." "You're moving on." "You've proven yourself worthy to begin training." "Long:" "To do something different with my life is what I was trying to go for... something meaningful, something that I'm gonna be able to look back on and be extremely proud of and tell my kids about, you know?" ""I did this."" "Cervantes:" "Look at those blue ascots in front of you." "That blue ascot symbolizes this course and everything that it stands for." "You will be men of character." "It's your character that will sustain you on the battlefield." "It's your character that will help you carry your buddy home when he dies in your arms." "Umstead:" "There's not really words to explain it." "It was exhilarating." "I got through ETD." "I can do this." "I can do this." "Instructor:" "Remember what you experienced." "Remember exactly what happened today, what you experienced psychologically and what you experienced physically." "What happened today is gonna prepare you for the rest of your career." "Congratulations." "Remember, it's not over." "I expected I was gonna get through this on my own, but you really start to bond with all these guys." "Lombardo:" "They're my brothers." "I think what helps you get to know somebody is not how much time you spend with them, but the experiences you go through." "And we've been through some pretty crazy experiences." "Narrator:" "The 14 members of Class 10-04 have more than 2 years of intense training ahead of them before they become P.J.s." "They have only just begun their journey, but they are forever changed."