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hmm to far away to bad

  • 11.23.2004 4:57 PM PDT
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I am a young adult without discolosng my actual age. I woud [color=blue] so [/color] like to try that program out. But for me, it is out of the country. My high school only had regular gym class, but for me, that was an adventure due to the jock and preps there. There were acouple of us who had done sports, so it was a constant war you could say between the jocks/preps and the atheletes. Needless to say, the atheletes normally won.

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  • 11.23.2004 5:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Kendoboy
thats half the hike and thats just the begining you do it none stop finish in one day or fail then you swim about 5 miles with gear then you have to pass a rigorous obstecoule course with a gun hit every target and thats just to be accepted. after that its a -blam!- load of more pain torture and misury if i was built like that i would do it these people that go in are monsters they can kill you in quite a few diffrent ways without a gun even if you have one


Dude, that ain't the half of it. The D-boys are INSANE.

(All this stuff I know, by the way, is declassified and recent as of, like, 1980. It was found in the book Inside Delta Force by Eric L. Haney...it's a great read)

After the grueling hike, around 10-15 of the average starting class of 100-120 are left. They are the ones who are actually gonna make it into the Delta Force. The next thing they start on is the marksmanship part of the training. Instead of using the sights on their guns, which takes precious milleseconds, and every bit of time helps when you're in a close-quarters fight, they use "instinctive aiming," where they basically think about hitting something and then hope their gun hits it. They get so good at it that they can basically shoot something at the mere thought of it--without really aiming! This is an extremely crucial and handy skill, especially for taking down an airplane.

The snipers (actually, basically the whole force in general) has so much mental control that they are capable of some amazing things. For example, they can warm specific parts of the body, such as a trigger finger, with their own willpower. They can enter a state of sleep-like awareness, where their minds basically become cleared and relaxed, yet observant at the same time. This enables them to stay on guard for prolonged periods of time, while not getting bored and also, basically "sleeping." They don't sleep, but because their mentally relaxed, they don't get tired. They can consciously control their heartbeat, as well as their aim.

Then, they learn how to assault just about any type of assault-able thing imaginable.

Then, they learn how to be CIA-like agents, capable of going undercover and doing intelligence drops (this is why the Delta Force is so top-secret and many of the pictures of active duty D-boys are blanked out).

This is just some of the stuff that I can remember off the top of my head.


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  • 11.23.2004 10:33 PM PDT
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This still sounds like something that I if I could try to do, I would.

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You should enlist in the Marine Corps, Megan 327, if you want a helluva challenge. It's not Special Forces, but you'll still get some grueling training.

  • 11.28.2004 7:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Sarge
You should enlist in the Marine Corps, Megan 327, if you want a helluva challenge. It's not Special Forces, but you'll still get some grueling training.


If I could get the Marine Corps. Boot camp, with the Navy's piloting, I would, but the Marine Corps. don't have the intense piloting and engineering that I would love to go into to become an Astronaut. Something about going about 250 nautical miles up, then getting to come back down through atmospheric plasma, and going where no one has gone before. Something thrilling, exiciting, and unknown about all of that. But I still would like living life a little on the edge.

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  • 11.29.2004 8:53 AM PDT

We’ve watched while the stars burned
Out, and creation played in reverse.
The Universe freezing in half-light.
Once I thought to escape.
To end a master, step out of the
Path of collapse. Escape would make us God.
Yet I cannot help but remember one enigma,
A hybrid, elusive destroyer.
This is the one mystery I have not solved.
The only element unaccounted for.

Posted by: Megan 327
trying never hurt anyone, except the cat.

Hey!

  • 11.29.2004 9:16 AM PDT
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just for clarity, I was posting that with the reference to the thing where the cat tries, and ends up dead. I forget the phrase/story off of the top of my head.

  • 11.29.2004 9:46 AM PDT

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