Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Lone survivor 5

Now in Lone Survivor Marcus has gotten past the BUD/S “Hell Week” and is stuck on the Seals underwater comprehensive test which is basically where the official harasses you while you try and hold your breath and re-attach your scuba tank air supply.  If your feet touch the ground you fail or if you can’t get the not un-done but it was possible you fail.  For Marcus, this should have been easy but he thought the not was one that was impossible but the officials got it un-done so he failed.  The next time he made sure that he passed.  After all of that he traveled to the final stage of training, the advanced seal training, which is basically actual warfare training.  Marcus and the other people who passed BUD/S are now traveling to different bases to practice different tactics such as, sniping, demolitions, hand to hand and underwater fighting.  For Marcus the sniper school was most difficult because you couldn’t give up your locations so you had to move very slowly and stealthy.  For a sniper precision, accuracy and stealth are everything.  Once he passed that he moved to what is known as Graduation Island because it is the final stage where you put everything together before graduation.  Here Marcus goes through advanced demolitions and has to pass several tests to become a unique person, a U.S. Navy Seal.  After his graduation he was sent immediately to the Middle East where he went into the mountains. (At this point the flashback is over) Marcus and SDV Seal team 10 is traveling through Hindu Kush Mountains on the border or Pakistan and Afghanistan waiting for any Taliban fighters to engage with.  They are looking for the secret cave and Osama Bin Laden.  It’s really hard for the American soldiers because the Taliban fighters look like civilian farmers and they have to wait until they are shot at to engage, so if they don’t do so they will be charged for murder. 

2 comments:

Jack said...

Whoa! Josh in guys and lit. I never new. Survivor books always sound good and intersting. Although the only one I remember reading is Hatchet.

Tristan said...

Nice one josh. well put together there. That hell weeks a toughy eh?

Tristan M.