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The build up to going to Naval Special Warfare Command, in Coronado California took place right across the road from Recruit Training Command at my Naval “A” school which was the Information Systems Technician School. I not only was going to the IT school from 4p.m. to 10p.m. then at 3a.m. the special warfare group would get up and go to the gym and it was October to December of 2000 and it was all chilly out and still dark. I remember just standing out of the gym waiting for our instructor to come by and punish us.
One particular morning really stands out because the group was having an intensive training Wednesday. We grouped up, about thirty of us just waiting. Then we all ran down the road about a mile to Lake Michigan. We all were on the pier and the instructor turned on his jeep lights and said, “Jump in” we just all jumped in and it was blackness all around me. I resurface to the top of the water and there were trainees all around me swimming out to a buoy. I was elbowed and kicked into the face and in the gut. We climbed back up the pier by hand and jumped in the beach and crawled and did bear crawl races. The losers had to do pushups. Then we all stopped at a base of a hill.
The instructor had us run up the hill backwards and then he ran frontward toward us and if he passed us we had to do pushups and most of us had to do pushups. I remember getting really tired after this. We ran another mile to the gym and did pull-ups over and over. It was a really good training session. This all was done before breakfast and to watch the sunrise.
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