"In war, there are no time-outs, no contrived popularity contests to decide life and death." "This program is about the 83 young men of Class 234..." "and their six months long struggle to become US Navy SEALs..." "in a training course called Basic Underwater Demolition Seal training." "or BUD/s." "BUD/s is far more than another reality television survivor contest." "There is only one rule to remember:" "it pays to be a winner." "In the first minutes of day one at BUD/s training in Coronado, California, Class 234 is falling apart." "Two minutes!" "You don't make it, guess what happens?" "You do it again." "Trying to obey impatient SEAL instructors," "Class 234 is completely disorientated in the predawn cold of late November." "In the darkness, there isn't time for the instructors or the television cameras to learn 83 names." "It won't matter." "BUD/s has a failure rate of over 70º/º." "Of the 83 students pictured here, only sixteen will graduate six months from now." "One, two, three..." "Every student harbors an inner belief that he can become a Navy SEAL." "But when seconds seem like hours, enduring the moment can challenge anyone's commitment." "Oh that was a saggy back, you're on 7." "You started out with 10 and you've knocked out 20 so far." "Cause you're sad, you're weak." "There's eight." "Nine." "Ten." "I'll tell you what." "When you're told to do something you do it right." "If you're doing a set of pushups you do 'em right." "You want to screw off, I'll catch you every time, and you make..." "I'll make you pay." "You will pay." "And that... andthatgoesforwhenI  turn my back and I walk away because that is when I look at you the most." "It's one way to get somebody fired up to get 'em moving is just give 'em extra pressure and say..." ""you know what, every evolution I'm gonna be watching you..." "and paying attention and making sure that you are doing the same thing that all of your buddies are doing."" "Do it again!" "You guys get out of here!" "Making a guy realize that he has to put out equally with his buddies." "The basis of teamwork is being able to have a little bit of self motivation, be able to carry your own weight." "What number are you on Chaney?" "You're on 3, I didn't say 4." "Don't you wish you were moving a little faster?" "Day 1 is a wake up, a welcome to BUD/s." "They kinda get introduced to all the instructors." "The intensity level as far as being right in their face for everything, every minute, every second they're out here is uh definitely at a higher level." "Don't give in to the pain..." "you just adjust for it, that's it, minor adjustments, if you can't do it perfect, then you just change it a little bit, don't give in to the pain and quit." "This entire PT has been a joke." "There hasn't been a single evolution that you've performed during the course of this PT..." "that has even remotely resembled perfection." "Everything has been sad, weak, and unreadable, and it's all because you're inside your tiny little brains self-defeating yourself." "You think I'm good-looking?" "You should have done it the first time, dumb-ass." "What are you doing?" "Where are you going?" "After an hour. instructors show no sign of letting up." "Their intention is for each student to question his reason for being here." "Hey, what is wrong with you?" "The instructors realize nobody will drop out in the first hour." "The quitting will begin as soon as the realization sets in that this is only the beginning." "Thumbs up on that bar and do one pull up." "Thumbs up on top." "We're looking for these guys to put out." "Just give everything you got and that's fine." "And you can tell if they're not giving it everything they got you can tell." "You see that guy who's not doing all his pushups, he's falling down on his knees." "And then you tell him to bear crawl around and all of a sudden he's got all this energy." "Do a pull up." "Pull it up." "Get it up there!" "Keep pulling, keep pulling, keep pulling, keep pulling, keep pulling." "Keep going, keep going." "Look at all that extra strength you had, oh my god." "Class 234 is no different from any other BUD/s class before it." "For the most part students range in age from 17 to 29 years old." "Everyone is a volunteer." "Get on the bar there Butters, you should be all rested up by now, maybe you can get one." "Each student has his own reasons for being at BUD/s." "I came here to BUD/s to be part of the best team around, where l could have my buddies to depend on, and I'd like for them to be able to depend on me." "Nothing's promised here, you can only try your best." "I just wanted to be one of the best of the best." "Wanted to see if I can measure up to one of the toughest things out there." "As dawn breaks over the exercise area, nicknamed "The Grinder", the instructors see each student clearly for the first time." "Excuse me Mr. Holley" "Get it up!" "Get up there!" "What's up with these officers?" "Get up there!" "Shoemaker and Holley are officers who are drawing attention from instructors..." "who demand that SEAL officers lead by example." "Dismount Holley, go get wet." "You don't even want..." "you don't even want to put out." "Utter defiance!" "We got 8 weeks to work with 'em and you can scream and holler..." "and I'm hoarse already and it's not gonna work." "You gotta let the time take care of it..." "and usually the same names will show up." "Hey Stud-boy!" "Who's a stud?" "Crider." "Get up there!" "You better be a heck of a runner Crider because you're lousy at this." "Nice work!" "If the same names keep showing up and all the instructor staff feel that..." "this guy's not gonna cut it then he's gonna get a little extra pressure." "It's been a whole minute since your name's been yelled out too there Shoemaker." "Oh come on Shoemaker, get on up there." "Lock it up there, Stud-boy." "All the way down, all the way up!" "Five, six..." "Lock it up Stud-boy, get on up there." "Who's that guy up front there?" "Hoff..." "Hoffman!" "Get up!" "Shoemaker, oh you remain there Shoemaker, get on up there Stud-boy." "Despite Shoemaker and Holley's obvious distress, BUD/s is not about humiliation." "Whatever you have to do, kick, scream, bite, I don't care if you have to chew on that thing, now get up there!" "Get it up there!" "You're starting to realize the kind of effort you have to give here, the thing is it's not cutting it for you right now." "Neither is this a survivor contest, where the winners manipulate their way to victory." "No man can buy his way into this program." "Leadership is essential to class unity." "Gettys is the officer in charge for Class 234." "A three-year veteran from the fleet, he is the leader the class relies on for stability." "oic, Officer in Charge, I'm responsible for the welfare of the men out here." "This is what I wanted to do for a long time, this is the best job there is in the Navy." "You're working with highly-motivated individuals and people who want to be here, if you want to narrow it down, it has to be the best job there is." "Eight, nine, ten, eleven..." "After breakfast, a class muster reveals that one student is gone." "Less than three hours into day one and 234 suffers its first Drop on Request or DOR." "The word spreads quickly but there is no time for questions or reaction." "Hey, what about Butters?" "When Gettys learns that a student has dropped out, he has no time to worry about it." "Did you talk to him about it?" "No, it slipped my mind..." "We're moving!" "With the different ages and maturity levels in the class. lt's going to be a long day..." "and 234 must remain focused on the next evolution, the timed four mile run." "Hey listen up, we got this run going on now." "After the run the people who pass will probably stretch out," "those people who fail will probably get beat for a while." "Hoo ya, lnstructor Ruiz!" "60%/ of the people who fail this run today will not make it through Hell Week." "Hell Week. 5 1/2 days of misery." "The instructors tell the students again that failure for most is a statistical destiny." "Go!" "Any student unable to complete the four mile run in 32 minutes or less before Hell Week begins two weeks hence, will be"performance dropped" from training." "For half the class, this is their first time at BUD/s." "For the rest, it is their second, third, and even fourth try." "For Rivera, the class LPO or Leading Petty Officer, at 29 years of age, this will be his third and final try to graduate." "I was actually in BUD/s in 1995, I quit, I just wasn't ready." "I was in the last class, and I got rolled back in Hell Week." "I feel that at of everything I've done in the Navy, this is what I want the most." "I'm thinking I'm going to make it this time." "Demeter, thirty-two forty-eight." "Nobody passed today." "Alright, and they have some fast runners that will pass with no problem on a good beach." "Go!" "And we know that but today it's day one..." "Casey thirty-two fifty-two." "it's "hello this is BUD/s... " and we're not here to mollycoddle anybody." "Did I tell you to go?" "Drop down!" "What did I just tell you?" "You come in, you give my your name, you check in with your time, and then I'll tell you to go." "You don't start making up your own rules around here Casey!" "Thirty-five fifty-three." "Surfs on!" "Go get wet!" "Run!" "We want these guys to dig down and give us everything they've got." "The time isn't so important to us." "The time isn't what it's about." "What it's about is to see that the guys are digging down, and giving us everything that they have got..." "and showing us that they have the intestinal fortitude to punch through here." "It's like the only thing from this timed run that you're going to end up benefiting from..." "is the fact that now you know what it means to be wet and sandy." "If I ever tell you to get get wet and sandy again, or anybody in the instructor staff does, you get wet and sandy from head to toe, just like you are now, you're completely covered." "A lot of people don't understand what "sandy" is because they don't pay attention to detail, they don't discipline themselves to get fully sandy." "You do know that now. right?" "You know that now because you failed the run and we got you sandy." "So you still end up benefiting in one little way." "One, two, three, four." "one, two, three, four..." "You're supposed to be the strong one." "The people... onethatpeoplelookupto ." "I wouldn't even want to be under your leadership in a real team, in the unlikely event that you make it, because of your weakness you could get yourself and teammates killed in a real-life situation." "you better figure out if you want to be here or not, you've got a long way to go." "Gettys is singled out for being physically unprepared when he reported to training." "As the OlC, he is an obvious choice for close up scrutiny from SEAL instructors." "Although SEAL training is the same for both officers and enlisted men," "BUD/s instructors are experienced SEAL operators who hold their officers to a higher standard." "The pressure is just always there for me, I mean I'm always feeling some kind of pressure." "Especially as the OlC." "I want you to take a look." "You got your chest here, I got under your neck, I see your arm here, you got told to get sandy." "That means from head to toe." "You're an officer as well, right?" "Okay." "Pay attention to detail." "You got to discipline yourself to do that, you got to do that so the guys are going to follow you." "If you get given an order, it means do it properly the first time." "Get sandy." "I guess the hardest thing to do is to constantly stay motivated so you can complete every evolution..." "and make sure you do it and just keep going every day." "Gettys will get continuous pressure until he proves he is fit to lead." "It is a challenge that he must win or risk losing control of Class 234 and being dropped from training." "You're an officer." "Make sure you're leading from the front." "You're setting the example, alright?" "There are a lot of guys out here who are E1's and E2's that are going to follow your lead..." "so I'm going to hold you to a higher standard." "Get out of here!" "Hurry Up!" "After the run, Class 234 prepares for sea." "Hey knuckleheads, why don't you guys move down!" "The instructors hope that Surf Passage will cause more students to question their commitment to training and drop out." "You'd be surprised if you get one or two quitters the first day during the first evolutions." "The first three weeks of Phase One are intentionally designed..." "to filter out students lacking the emotional commitment needed to become SEALs." "Up there, ring it three times, just place your helmet at the base." "If you have your questions then this would be the appropriate time to... butareyou donewith it?" "Are you cool?" "Okay, go ahead, ring it out three times..." "Dropping on Request affects students differently." "Some are relieved." "Some are embarrassed." "Most feel regret." "For Class 234, the row of helmets will be a daily reminder there is no success like failure..." "and failure is no success at all." "The medical guys yeah l feel sorry for, that's hard luck." "The dors, no, best of luck to 'em, they're..." "I know'emall ,they're really good guys, and I think they'll do well somewhere else." "This program is not for everybody, if that was the case there would be more than 0.5 percent in the Navy that are Navy SEALs." "It's a state of mind, it's totally a state of mind." "I mean, you see it's only your mentality." "You see some guys say "man this really sucks l don't know if I can do it"..." "where someone like myself or Fox or guys in our boat crew have been pretty consistent, like "man this really sucks but we can do something different"." "Right now it's a little small, we saw some bigger waves earlier this morning." "You never know though, it can pick up at any minute." "Surf passage consists of boat crews racing each other through the surf in their ten-foot rubber rafts." "Most of the class have never seen waves this big." "Come on now this is the fun part of the thing." "Oh, I'm fired up!" "It's going to be fun." "Alright, stroke, stroke, I'll tell you what, you go fast." "you dig deep..." "and you just say "stroke" every time and we'll get out there." "In boat crew 11, Fox, an enlisted man, is instructing the boat crew." "Instructors are not pleased." "Shoemaker, the boat crew leader." "is not showing leadership." "After his poor showing earlier in PT and the four mile run," "Shoemaker is bringing unwanted attention on himself and his boat crew." "We're going to see life jackets scattered..." "Paddling rafts in high surf is more difficult and dangerous than it might appear." "Men can be smashed together in the boiling water, get hit by flying paddles, or become tangled up underneath the raft." "In surf this big, the emphasis is on swim buddies sticking together and boat crews working together." "But the pressure to win the race is never-ending..." "and the instructors are watching and waiting for any signs of weak effort." "You got to put out, you can't be afraid even when it's big, when it's time to go you gotta go and when it's time to sit back you gotta sit back." "Go around 'em." "Get in the boat, extend an arm!" "Now!" "Let's do it again fellas." "Same race." "Boat crew eight has won an earlier race and been allowed to rest before returning to the surf." "Meanwhile, Holley and boat crew three receive a motivational time-out for their poor performance." "Holley is learning: it pays to be a winner." "The first morning you just pretty much expect the worst." "And it was pretty bad, they hammered us pretty good. I wasn't as prepared as I should have been coming in." "Everybody but Demeter recovered." "The boat crew is waiting to participate in a race, and you are holding them up right now." "Instructors never forget a name and neither will the class..." "if the failure of an individual brings unwanted attention to the group." "One of the irony's of BUD/s is that a student can excel in one event but fail in another." "Demeter, the fastest runner in the morning run, is now singled out for his physical weakness." "Hurry up Demeter!" "Your boat crew is waiting on you!" "Nice." "You're guys are going to have to be a heck of a lot more aggressive than you already are." "We'll carry, we'll carry." "Water?" "Coxswain report." "Go report." "Your names..." "You want to be here?" "I don't think so." "Your weakness can jeopardize your entire boat crew, get them killed, in a hot situation." "You better start putting out." "They're starting to pull together, much better than they were this morning, they were soup and sandwiches this morning." "Boat crew one you had better pay attention to detail." "When you are given a command..." "Surf Passage is not simply an exercise for the students to get pounded on by the waves." "It reinforces a bigger lesson, the main lesson of first phase." "lndividuals cannot survive in wartime." "class 234 must develop a trust in teamwork." "No matter how high the surf is, no matter how cold and wet they become, trust in one another is the essential SEAL trait for survival, at BUD/s or in war." "You guys ready to put out now?" "Yeah!" "Same race." "Go." "It's just determination, they've got to have their minds and hearts in it." "If they don't have that then they don't have anything." "There's big mama's out there, even bigger." "Alright here we go." "You got it, hang in there." "You got it!" "There it is!" "Oh yeah!" "Paddling!" "You got it!" "They quit paddling." "We got seven heads out there?" "When these waves come down on them, then it pretty much... it'llflip the boat over, it'll turn them into little ants and sugar." "But then the calmer it gets it's just no fun then we do foot races and whatnot..." "just to get that good lung burn." "Bye bye, bye bye, bye bye..." "Pretty big." "Was it?" "Did you get knocked over or did you make it out there?" "Oh we got knocked over a few times." "What are you doing?" "Toss your gear and then get over here." "Where does it hurt?" "Where doesn't it hurt?" "Suffer in silence!" "Where does it get tired first, the small of your back?" "Out there, if I expect you to hold a gun, and it's me and you and we're going through the door, how am I going to trust you to cover my six if you can't do the simplest of things?" "You understand me?" "Hoo ya!" "You better start putting out." "If your back's not straight your butt's in the air." "Nolan get off your chest Nolan if your back's not straight your butt is in the air." "Nolan!" "Butt in the air." "There you go." "How tough was that?" "That's the rest position." "It's only going to get worse Nolan, it's only going to get worse." "Hey there's other programs out there Nolan." "Rangers, SBU. something else Nolan." "Every single day you're planting that seed." "You're bringing them in a situation where they have to struggle to overcome some kind of obstacle." "But most of it's mental." "They overcome it and they go on, if they don't you know..." "Why are you wearing those bars?" "To lead." "You realize that if you make it to a team that you might be in charge of me?" "Oh yeah." "You think you can take commanding charge over me?" "Not ready yet." "It's obvious." "No one is immune to pain but getting seriously injured is the one thing every student fears the most." "If the injury is severe enough, the student will be dropped or rolled back and he must start all over again." "We made it all the way out but on the way back in this wave went right behind us..." "and it made the boat... andit wentup like that, and my leg went in between the main tube and the cross-tube." "The boat went it just kind of rolled my ankle with it." "It was all real quick." "You always have to have your pals in the water, if the waves are about to break on you or if you're in the wash..." "if your pal's not in the water you're just really screwed." "That hurt?" "Yes, yeah." "Right here?" "Right there." "Try to stand and not walk on it." "I can walk on it okay." "Go ahead and put your boot, your sock, and everything else back on..." "If I can move it back in I can take some Motrin you know, that might be able to do it." "Hopefully it won't affect me that much." "I got to get back to the class." "After hundreds of push ups, a four mile timed run and paddling in 12 foot waves in 56 degree water, two students are gone and one is slightly injured." "There are five months, three weeks." "four days and five and a half hours left until CLASS 234 graduates." "A little reality check." "Waiting for inspection can give a student too much time to think." "BUD/s is not a sport." "Room inspection is intended to teach Class 234 a major lesson." "Pay now or pay later." ""Gumbayan"." "How do you say that?" " Gumbayan sir." ""Gumbaya". "Gumbayayan"." "Where you from "Gumbayan"?" " Here in San Diego..." "The class comes from all walks of life, sailors from the fleet, high school graduates and college students." "Most were in the Navy before they arrived here but despite the differences in age, life experience and personalities, they all have two things in common." "First, every man is a volunteer." "Second, they all know 70º/ of them will never graduate." "Aww, Chaney, your name was popping up all over the place today." "What's up with that?" "Are you trying out for most improved player there Chaney?" "No I'm not, lnstructor." "Start off really really bad and then just slowly improve and get the marks and get the most improved award?" "No, I'm not Instructor Patstone." "You better shape up sort of quick." "Your boots sort of stink there Crespino, and your boots stink, you two can drop down." "There's a direct correlation between Jack London and your name." "If you can name it I won't drop you down." "Need a good pair of boots." "Where is a good pair of boots?" ""Gumbayaena", come over here." "Right step over here, right here." "Oh see now those boots are decent." "For first inspection those are decent." "And yours..." "I don'teventhinkyou shined your boots at all." "Drop on down Peron." "Drop!" "Attention to detail can never be taken for granted." "The difference between living and dying often depends on how a SEAL platoon prepares before a battle is ever fought." "A SEAL must anticipate problems and solve them before those problems kill him or his teammates." "Merely showing up and paying attention is not enough." "Alright, let's start over here." "We were here on Sunday from 9:00 in the morning till 9:00 at night." "We were here for about twelve and a half hours on Sunday." "I'd say about four or five hours was spent cleaning this room, and then another couple of hours was spent cleaning their office over at the compound." "l'll help you get the sand out of your drawers." "l got one." "Whew!" "Gaines I could tell that you tried." "This is my first time." "I just... it'stakenmea while to get over here." "It is my first time." "So is it what you expected?" "Yeah it is now." "lndoc wasn't but it is now, this is... thisis it ." "I know what I'm here for." "I expected a lot of work so..." "This is more like the fifth or sixth time." "I got rolled before when I was here." "I got a concussion during Surf Passage, got rolled, I got pneumonia in Hell Week with one class, made it through, tore my hamstring with another class and got rolled." "That's the challenge for myself." "I mean you give something 110%/ l mean everybody here has been good at pretty much everything they've ever tried to do, so they come here, and they get challenged." "And when you don't meet the standards some guys come back to show they can meet the standard and some guys don't." "They accept it. I mean my whole career is based on this right here." "I mean, three years is pretty much the time I've invested in here right now." "Drop down!" "Jesus!" "Push 'em out until my arms get tired." "We even got our names on our shirts and you still can't get 'em right." "Morgan push down until your arms get tired." "It's the hardest training you can get into." "It's a test of one's limits, to see how far he can go, how far he can push himself, through ultimate resolve." "If you're not quite sure..." "I don't even look like lnstructor Rector, I'm much better looking, alright, if you're not quite sure there's a name tag right there, my man." "You know that's like the PUSH on the door when it says PUSH and you walk up to it and PULL it." "If there was a bell by my bed in the morning I wouldn't be here now." "Every morning I wake up, I just want to go back to sleep." "You got to get up at three o'clock just to get in by four so you can be over there at fifteen minutes before..." "any of the instructor staff gets over there." "Then you get out of here late at night, get home, see the family for like an hour and a half and then it's off to bed." "Let's go over the river and through the woods to grandma's house for Thanksgiving, maybe the Fairy will show up and clean my room." "is this a hit?" "If you have more perfume than a woman, if you have more cologne than a woman." "I think that is a hit." "Hey somebody break out the list, I think that's a hit." "If we have a room that's outstanding and the deck is good and it's a good room, it's a good room, they're going to pass." "It's not... thisisn'tariggedevolution." "What are you up to?" "Three hits." "What are they?" "Dirt, dusty mirrors, dirt..." "Get it done." "Dirt on the windows in the bathroom..." "dirty deck." "I might let that go, I might let that go." "What's this goo on your knife, Chera?" "How's it sharpening up?" "Lock your room up, lock your valuables up." "Do not change out." "Check in to Senior Chief on The Grinder." "The first three weeks of First Phase are known as the "gut check", culminating in the third week, called Hell Week, the ultimate test for a student's endurance." "But Hell Week is not the concern at the moment." "Passing room inspection is." "Survival at BUD/s is taken one minute, one hour, one evolution at a time." "Most think you know all they think of BUD/s is Hell Week." "We have to go through a Hell Week?" "I don't know about that." "Maybe it's just a bad rumor." "I don't know if I can say this." "but how do you prepare for a kick in the balls, you know, you don't, you just suck it up." "Two minutes, standing by for inspection." "You know you gotta want to be here and Hell Week is definitely proof that you want to be here." "How many hits we got?" "Two." "No, they're gone, window isn't done..." "I think everybody flunks an inspection, I mean those are the guys that have been inspected so far." "What is all this?" "Sand all over cabinet" "Sand all over everything." "Anticipation is worse than the actual event. lt's going to happen." "Oh, you guys live off-base, do you not?" "We do." "I figured as much, that's why this place is so clean, because they don't live here." "If you're married or you have a place out in town already, you get to keep your room here..." "but you're allowed to go home at the end of the night." "So I use the opportunity to see my wife and my daughter for a few hours." "Backs straight!" "Get off your gut." "For those who fail room inspection, the reward is pain." "The message is excruciating and non-negotiable: put out or get out." "It's pretty normal for what we see for First Inspection." "They weren't completely wrecked and they weren't completely good..." "but they were enough to warrant "Failures"." "For the five days they had off this should have been immaculate." "The pain of BUD/s is not personal." "It's up to each student to prove he wants to be here." "Well, I think we have a winner." "This is the group that passed the Room lnspection." "Guys like this might have failed the Personnel Inspection but at least he passed the Room lnspection." "I see sway backs, I see heads hanging." "I'm going to take this as a conceding defeat." "You're told to do something, you got a time limit to do it, you'll focus all your energy and power on getting that task done." "You're told to do a muster, you move a hundred miles an hour, find your boat crew leader, and you get a muster." "It better be fast, if you're told to go and hit the surf, you will sprint to the surf, you will get completely wet and you'll get back, sprinting." "And believe me if you get caught not sprinting, if you get caught screwing off, we'll find you and we'll make you pay." "This is just regular training." "Start making you pay, that's extra." "Maybe that's during lunch, maybe you get an MRE, get your ass handed to you during lunch, maybe we'll have you come in a little bit early, knock out some eight caps, you don't want to be one of those people, gents." "Recover." "Get a muster." "A Sunday should be spent cleaning the room, and they know they get inspection, they can see the schedule, so now they know I'm going to look under the bed for dust, and Erin is going to look on top of the dresser for dust," "and next inspection they should have a big improvement." "Eighty-three assigned, eighty-one present." "Who's missing?" "Some people quit earlier." "Who?" "Rockman and Butters." "That's how you give your musters." "You have 83 assigned, 81 present, and then you start naming off whose missing and where the hell they are." "From now on." "After nine hours of push ups, surf passage, running, and more push ups, the only thought in every student's mind is to make it through the final two hours of day one." "You guys better stay with the count." "I'm not going to wait on you." "And if you fall behind you're screwed." "Stress and exhaustion can destroy self-confidence." "Student Legg uses pain to maintain his motivation." "I don't see myself not liking it any more than I do now." "I'm having a blast with it now." "It's tough but it's still fun." "So as long as it stays tough and fun I'll stay with it." "Get those logs up." "Top of your heads..." "OldMisfor you ." "Old Mis is a beautiful thing." "Go see on Old Misery." "The only thing worse than lifting the regular 150 pound telephone poles is lifting "Old Misery."" "Misery is a 450 pound reminder that teamwork is the only solution for success." "It's said that Old Misery loves company but nobody loves misery." "The problem is not everybody is putting out." "So that we means we got to work on some teamwork, that means we got to work on some strength." "So, why don't we start all over again." "Right hand starting position, move." "I have never been under Old Mis..." "when I went through training I never got to, never went to Old Mis." "Thank god." "Instructor Patstone is probing each student's commitment to the boat crew's leader and to each other." "The only way off Old Misery is to work together as a crew." "Get it up there." "One, Okay..." "Son of a bitch!" "Right hand shoulder position move." "Nice." "Oh, dropping the log, that's a penalty, you'll pay for that later." "I realize that this exercise can tire your shoulders, so now we will work on something else." "Squats." "Down." "Get your hands on the log." "In order to get off this log, and go back on your own small little log..." "that weighs a hell of a lot less than this, you're going to have to keep that log extended arm for 45 seconds." "Get it the first time, go back to your log." "Whenever you're ready." "Time has started." "Come on Demeter, put out." "Do it right the first time, and you're done." "Last crew did it, last crew did it first shot." "Almost there, come on, keep it up." "Almost there, come on!" "Oh no!" "Right hand shoulder position moved." "Gentlemen. you had four seconds left." "four seconds left and you would be back on your small little log." "However you did not make the time so let's work on your strength training:" "four-count overheads." "If you had four more seconds in you right now then you'd be on your log." "Okay, forty-five seconds." "Who's the coxswain of this crew?" "Who are you?" "I'm Ensign Holley, lnstructor Patstone." "Who are you!" "l'm Ensign Holley, lnstructor Patstone." "Ensign Holley. I don't like this little defeatist attitude you've developed." "We see that attitude it just makes us want to crush you." "If you accept defeat again I'll bring you right back over and I'll make it twice as hard." "Let's do it fellas, let's do it!" "Extended arm, get it up." "Whenever you get it off your head, we'll start the time." "Get up closer to him." "Can't get it any closer." "Right-hand shoulder position move." "Mr. Holley, do you need to switch anybody around on this log?" "l need, somebody needs to get up front." "l'll get up front." "You realize Mr. Holley that this is your log, you are in charge of it just like you are in charge of a boat." "You might need to spread your power around." "Extended arm, forty-five seconds." "get it up." "And time has started." "Everybody works together, everybody works equal, not all that bad." "Almost there!" "Get it up!" "Keep it up!" "Keep it up!" "Get that thing up!" "Four seconds!" "Log PT is fairly physical on your regular log, as long as everybody's putting out, pulling their weight." "Keep it up!" "And right-hand shoulder position move." "Right-hand starting position move." "Don't drop the log!" "Yeah, you can't forget about that penalty." "Gentlemen, you want to come back just feel free to shape up on your old log." "Go." "They get their asses kicked, they always do." "As the day grinds on, the entire class is tired but Walker's boat crew is failing." "We're definitely looking for teamwork issues, and leadership issues." "An evolution like this you really start to see..." "the weak links or the guys in the class the class doesn't like because they're holding them back." "Up!" "Come on!" "Those guys that are falling down, you know doing all that stuff. you know there's no excuse for that, they're fine, there's nothing wrong with them, they just haven't overcome that barrier mentally." "Get it up!" "I can't do this by myself." "Come on!" "Albers, go to the other side!" "Body language tells the story." "Some of Walker's crew have quit trying." "The instructors watch but do nothing." "They know that when students get a reputation for weakness, the class will eventually find out..." "and bring peer pressure upon the ineffectual students to either perform or quit." "What's your problem?" "l feel dizzy. I feel dehydrated." "Up!" "Apparently not drinking enough water." "I'm starting to see..." "Tweetie birds swimming around in your head?" "Stars..." "Tweetie birds are going to swimming around in your head in a minute." "Go get a drink." "Get back here." "Hoo ya." "Hurry up." "Okay, to get off this log and get back on your tiny little log..." "extended arm forty-five seconds." "Get it up." "While Old Misery teaches another boat crew about teamwork, CLASS 234 is learning why it pays to be a winner." "Right now I'm doing this to their legs because all day they've had a lot of upper body work, bucked shoulders, so I'm going to give them legs for a little bit, give them a break on their shoulders." "Winners over here." "There's a method to our madness." "Are you back to your normal self?" "Ensign Schafer, lnstructor Patstone." "You always talk that stupid, or is this normal for you?" "I'm a little tired and weak right now." "Yeah, and you want me to..." "No excuses." "rub your belly... rubyourbelly, pat your bottom?" "l just need..." "What'd your mom do?" "Massage your shoulders a little bit?" "This is Day One." "l understand." "Everybody else is out there getting their ass beat, just like you are." "They're dealing with it." "Yeah, lnstructor Patstone." "A lot of the time they're in the hard, the super super hard stuff, they'll get a little bit dehydrated, if they didn't get a good lunch, you know they only had a sandwich rather than three sandwiches," "their blood glucose will get a little bit low and they'll get a little funky." "He was pretty much with it mentally, he answered my questions well, his lips were good, his pulse was good, so he was good to go, just put him in the back of my head as somebody to keep an eye on." "You ready to get on your log?" "I'm weak but I need to get back with my team." "You start feeling super stupid come on back." "Yes lnstructor Patstone." "Uh." "He'll be okay." "Go!" "There are four classes a year at BUD/s and CLASS 234 is a winter class." "Winter classes have the highest drop out rate because of the cold." "Who are you?" "Ensign Garry." "Ensign Garry these are your men, this is your log, you are in charge of it." "You're in charge of them." "Tell them where they need to go and what they need to do." "BUD/s is a war of attrition, a contest of luck and commitment." "Each student must demonstrate a dedication to remain in training, no matter the hardship." "The irony is that commitment alone is not always enough to guarantee success." "... foroncepleasejusthold your  hands in the air." "I don't give a fuck if you're trying or not. do it!" "Crider do you have any weight up there?" "Crider sit down." "It happened yesterday at Log PT and it went numb." "Kept sliding out of socket on the O course." "Got a loose socket. I'm going to have to have reconstructive surgery on it." "I can't move my left arm." "I don't know it's just numb." "The surgery they're talking about that I'm going to have to have on my shoulder is pretty serious, it takes a long time to recover." "And if I come back I don't know if my shoulder would be..." "in good enough shape to go through the training." "This is like the first time you've ever been tested, isn't it?" "Negative, I've been tested in the past." "Oh, you've been tested harder than this?" "Negative, not harder..." "Did you fail then?" "Negative." "Have you been tested this hard ever in your life?" "Never." "So you're telling me that you're failing?" "Yeah." "ls that acceptable to you?" "Negative." "Winning here is a conscious decision." "In your head you have to make up your mind whether you want to pass, you want to help out, you want to be a part of our community, or you can choose to fail and just get out of here." "Something I've always wanted to do." "Twenty-five and now was the time to try it, before I got too old, but my body didn't let me this time, so I'm pretty disheartened." "When you want something really bad, and it just doesn't work out." "Before Hell Week. I don't think it's a specific evolution that gets them, I think it's a compilation of everything." "Tomorrow morning there'll be a couple of people sitting on the bench." "That's usually when it starts out, tomorrow morning, knees start hurting from Log PT, shoulders start hurting from Log PT, legs are hurting from running into the surf." "their bodies overall just start taking a beating, and that's usually when you start seeing the quitters." "Prepare to log." "Bail log." "The first week they get pounded, and even the second week is hard." "And the third week is harder than that." "Time has started." "Get it up!" "That's right, everybody works together, everybody works hard." "Half-way there guys." "Get it up!" "Right-hand shoulder position, move!"