Thursday, September 16, 2010

Navy Seals/Surf Passage

Ok I know Navy seals are not "Marin news" but we were at Coronado the other day and the Navy seal recruits were there. These are the guys that want to be Navy Seals but have to go through the grueling training to see if they can hack it. It was the coolest thing I have seen!
Wow is all I can say, I'm amazed at the endurance they have, I guess thats why they are the best. So just to try and explain some of these pictures and what they were doing: They had this nasty stinky inlet ( it seriously smelled like a sewer) that they would have to lay down and do their leg lifts/pushups/situps in. They had groups of maybe 8 in these rafts that they would have to take over the rocks , into the water, back over the rocks and then various excise's/drills over and over again without a break. You could see the fatigue on these guys faces, sometimes they would stumble and barely recover. We met a wife of one of these guys and she was telling us they do this like nonstop for at least 3 hours at a time, when we got there they had been drilling for an hour and a half. This was their second week and "Amber"(the wife) told us they started out with 200 guys and they were down to 100 and this particular exercise was called surf passage. It was funny because two of the D.I.'s stopped her and asked who her husband was and she wouldn't tell them! They found out and kind of harassed her husband a little. They had the platoon waving at her and shouting her name during the drills, it was pretty comical, but a great way to show their sense of humor too. She was pretty embarrassed but it was neat to see!

3 comments:

Rose said...

Cool pic's!! Wish I could have seen. LOL I bet the guys were so tired they didn't evn care people were watching. :p
(As a side note..... Joshua is sitting on the steps playing the guitar and singing about his knee hurting and Benjamin being happy. HA)

Sarah said...

What a cool experience to see!!! I've read about the tasks they have to do in books, but to see them....would be cool!!! Lucky you!

cass said...

OMGOSH!!! I AM SOOO JEALOUS! :) That is so awesome