The eight weeks of underwater training ended quickly. Owen felt that this period was the fastest since he came to the seals. He was learning new things almost every day.
Repeated mechanical connections make all these things become conditioned reflexes. When encountering any situation, Owen can make the correct response with almost no need to think. This is the purpose of training.
After the underwater training, it immediately entered the third stage of bud/s - land combat training. This training lasts about 8 to 10 weeks and contains a lot of things.
The content of the training is actually similar to that of the Army's special forces, but there is still no shortage of water-related content. It roughly includes: intelligence collection, long-distance reconnaissance and patrolling, demolition, secret infiltration, elimination of sentries, basic weapons operation, hand-to-hand combat, and vehicles.
Driving, rappelling, helicopter infiltration and extraction, night fighting, dealing with snipers, infiltrating buildings, clearing beachheads, etc.
Most of the training is conducted at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton on San Clemente Island. Many of the land combat demolition assaults are conducted at night, and the trainees can sleep about 4 hours a day.
This is a harsh, rocky, windswept island more than 80 miles off the southern California coastline.
To prepare for any possible situation, SEALs teach cadets some of the tactics the team must use, including handling explosives, penetrating enemy lines, capture alive (grappling) skills, and proper handling of prisoners of war. Commandos must also be able to survive in extreme environments
and providing medical care (field medical).
To pass SEAL training, you must complete a series of long-distance swimming subjects, one of which is night swimming. There are all kinds of creatures in the sea. Maybe something will come out of you while you are swimming.
I went downstream and met you.
This is why they have to take theoretical courses. They must understand most of the common marine creatures, and they must be able to judge immediately whether the creatures around them will pose a threat to them.
When Owen was practicing swimming at night, his team encountered an emergency. The offshore waters of Clementi Island are a breeding area for great white sharks. Several great white sharks surrounded the area where his team was, and kept circling around them.
Several people followed the instructions taught by the instructor in class. Several people stood back to back, staying still and alert. They still clearly remembered what the instructor said in class: "If a shark starts to circle around you, you must stay where you are."
"Please, don't swim away, don't show fear. If this shark wants a late-night snack and charges towards you, hit it on the nose with all your strength so that it will turn around and swim away."
Fortunately, there was no near miss that time. The sharks just made a joke with them and left. Owen thought of another sentence the instructor said: "There are many sharks in the world. If you want to complete the swimming, you just have to swim."
They have to be dealt with. So if you want to change the world, don't back down from sharks."
In the first five weeks, students mainly study theory and basic courses.
With stopwatches stuck and blindfolded, students must disassemble and assemble various pistols, rifles, machine guns, and sniper rifles, domestic, foreign, American, and Soviet, all of which must be mastered.
The instructor who taught them this knowledge was actually a female seal. Her name was Val Kyrie, but the other seals liked to call her Valkyrie.
As far as Owen knows, the SEALs do not recruit female trainees. This female SEAL does not seem to be a combatant, but a support staff such as a technical soldier.
But she passed all the SEAL assessments, and she is the record holder for the disassembly and assembly of American weapons at the Colorado Naval Base. Yes, there are thousands of elite soldiers in Colorado, including regular SEALs. When it comes to the speed of disassembly and assembly of American weapons, she
Be the first!
Valkyrie doesn't talk much. She likes to put paint on her face, and her arms are covered with shark tattoos.
Every time I see her dismantling and reloading a gun, it is a pleasing performance. Her hands are precise and fast, like a robotic arm controlled by a computer. It usually only takes a few seconds for a gun to be in her hands.
Became parts.
After practicing for a period of time, Owen became a leader in this area. There was no way, he had bullet time and could cheat. But even so, he still lost when he competed with Valkyrie.
Bullet time may be able to guarantee his speed, but it's still not as accurate as the Valkyrie.
The instructors' requirements for disassembling and assembling weapons are not high, as long as they are proficient. Compared with this, shooting is obviously more important.
Every student has to shoot countless bullets, shoot non-stop, 100 meters, 200 meters, 400 meters, rapid and accurate shooting with pistols and rifles, shooting at moving targets during exercise, etc.
The instructor who teaches shooting is nicknamed "Blackbeard". No one knows his real name, but everyone is used to calling him that. He should be considered a precision shooter among SEALs, with fast shooting speed and accurate marksmanship.
When teaching, he used the standard equipment of the SEALs, the K17 assault short rifle and the D-50 pistol.
K17 is actually the heavy version SAR-H of the SAR rifle produced by FNH Company. It was purchased by the US Special Operations Command and renamed K17. The other light version SAR-L is K16.
Students are free to choose their primary and secondary weapons during practice, and there are no mandatory requirements. Strictly speaking, because the special forces perform many tasks behind enemy lines and do not necessarily use their own country's equipment, they are required to be proficient in using weapons from most countries.
common equipment.
As soldiers, they must have learned shooting, so most of what Blackbeard teaches them are some techniques, tips to help them quickly increase their hit rate and rate of fire. The rest can only be fed by bullets.
No one can be lazy at this point. Every sharpshooter is fed with countless bullets, except of course Owen.
A group of people are practicing on the shooting range. As elites recruited and trained in the entire army, the equipment is naturally not short of money. The expenditure on training equipment is almost ten times that of the Marine Corps. Because the number is small and the weight is high, the purchase of guns
There is almost no upper limit on equipment.
All the students performed very well on the training ground. For a warrior of Blackbeard's level, one only needs to hear a few shots to tell whether he is a master or a mediocre fighter.
Owen soon caught Blackbeard's attention.
Each of Owen's shots has its own unique rhythm, and you can tell by the sound that he is definitely not a novice. In addition, Owen's marksmanship is accurate, and the gun can hit the target, and it is guaranteed to be within 8 rings, which is amazing.
It is not difficult to hit fast, but it is difficult to hit fast and accurately. It is impossible to do it without years of practice.
Blackbeard noticed Owen, and the others were not blind. Owen quickly became a star in this subject. Coupled with his little tricks, always leaving a bullet in the magazine and changing the magazine with one hand, people soon began to ask for it.
He asked for advice and imitated him.
Everyone even had a vague feeling that in the shooting subject, Owen was more powerful than Blackbeard, the instructor. This made everyone feel relieved, because Owen was a student like them, and Blackbeard was the instructor. The students seemed to find
A feeling of elation and elation.
Blackbeard has no intention of competing with Owen, and Owen certainly won't be stupid enough to provoke him, but he is also very confident, and even if Blackbeard really challenges him, he may not lose.
Owen was not complacent. Some of the techniques taught by Blackbeard were very useful, and many Owen felt that they could use them.
It's not that the seals don't know his own little skills, it's just that they don't put as much effort into it as Owen does. They have to practice too many things every day, and shooting is just one part of it.