Special Forces: Making the Cut - Jungle Training

then you go off to the jungle and you do continuation training the jungle where you operate in small four or five man groups and then the test is very much how you work as a team under extreme pressure you carry even bigger weights you live on the floor in the jungle in the trees in the jungle everything in the jungle wants to eat you not the big things the little things the mosquitoes the leeches the bugs the ticks every morning you get up and you look under each other's arms and legs and pull the ticks out from their skin and treat each other you lose an awful lot of weight very quickly they send you out on the ground where you get ambushed as an exercise and you lose all your food I came out of the jungle about I would say probably thirty pound lighter after only four weeks well the thing about the being in the jungle is that you're busy just keeping yourself alive because you've got to get water you've got to eat you've got to move you want to keep your kit dry you got to keep your deal with infections I was unlucky enough that the week prior to the last week of jungle selection which is the week of hard routine odd busted my ankle on the medic and he said to me you have a choice we can sensible things take you out and get this strapped up and get it seen to or I can strap it up and you can hop and I elected to hop so I was having a very uncomfortable time apart from that and so you become slightly irritable when you can't have a cup of tea and you sleep on the ground you've got a sort of food and you've got miles and thick jungle the cross but hey it's the job the jungle was probably the worst everything in the jungle wanted to kill you everything even the plants now I've woken up love being sound on the floor in a hard routine which means you can't put a hammock up you can't cook your food and I've been sat on the floor asleep against the tree and I've woken up with a leech inside my mouth sucking away as pre-loved yeah that sort of thing ticks in weird places being bitten by school that's been stung by scorpions in not nice places you know going to the toilet and plastic bags peeing into bowls and having to carry that out with you as well waking up in the morning when you're in the jungle taking we will dry get off that you sleep in and then putting all the wet kit that's weed you have to put your work it on when you're operating in the day you keep you dry stuff to sleeping because it's nice and comfortable and you've and your body doesn't Rock and then you operate in the wet kit because it's always going to be wet because you're sweating there's sand in it you're sanding your socks you can feel it grip rubbing away at your feet that's pretty unglamorous

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Length: 2min 51sec (171 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 19 2018