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00:00In war, there are no time-outs, no contrived popularity contests to decide life and death.
00:17This program is about the 83 young men of Class 234, and their six months long struggle to become U.S. Navy SEALs
00:26in a training course called Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL Training, or BUDS.
00:32BUDS is far more than another reality television survivor contest.
00:38There is only one rule to remember. It pays to be a winner.
00:56The new atmosphere of Phase 2 is evident from the beginning.
01:23The instructors remain exacting, but their emphasis is no longer about challenging a student's commitment to be here.
01:36The post-Hell Week atmosphere of BUDS emphasizes teaching as well as physical training.
01:42So, let's see what happens.
01:48How's your first days in the second phase?
01:50Pretty good, pretty good. A lot of classroom, a lot of academic stuff, but minimal physical evolution, which is good, so we're giving our bodies a chance to do it.
01:59For the first two weeks of second phase, Class 234 learns the basics of diving physics, diving medicine, and diving decompression tables for a written test that is the most demanding academic test in BUDS.
02:15Every student must pass this written test before the next stage of training, the preparation for pool week.
02:21The dive tower is a cylinder of water 50 feet deep, where the students are introduced to Free Swimming Ascent, or FSA.
02:40For most of Class 234, this is their first extended experience underwater.
02:45Each student makes one FSA from 25 feet, and one from 50 feet, after breathing air under pressure inside a diving belt.
02:55Breathing pressured air at 25 feet gives a person twice the volume of air in his lungs than normal.
03:01At 50 feet, close to three times the normal amount.
03:05FSA is an essential technique used if a SEAL must ditch his equipment underwater and surface safely.
03:11Instructors guide each student through each ascent, observing their comfort level in the water.
03:18As he goes to the surface, each student must continuously exhale, never exceeding the ascent speed of his own bubbles.
03:25To do so risks the expansion of the compressed air in his lungs, with the potential for a fatal result.
03:30Reload! Reload and clear your ears!
03:36I'm ready!
03:41Week 3 of Phase 2 is called Pool Competency Week.
03:45Students are tested on their different dive procedures in a series of timed evolutions.
03:52Everything from putting on their dive gear to checking over their swim buddy for twisted straps is done under a time limit.
03:59Their two-hose, open-circuit, twin-tank scuba equipment weighs nearly 72 pounds.
04:08Pool week evolutions are well-planned, choreographed situations occurring in 9 feet of water.
04:14Students must follow the various procedures precisely and demonstrate specific skills and comfort in the water,
04:21or be dropped from training.
04:2310, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
04:33Yeah!
04:34If you're a winner, fall in on Mr. Pace.
04:38Fall in two lines!
04:39Pool week is usually what makes or breaks somebody in butts.
04:43You make it through pool week.
04:45Wish you're not squared away.
04:46I mean, there really shouldn't be any more problems after that.
04:48It's definitely a butt kicker, but you're going to swallow a little bit of water, but I'm not nervous about it.
04:53I'm pretty confident, actually.
04:55One thing never changes.
04:57At Bud's, winning is everything.
05:00Because there are losers in this world.
05:02It's no longer the PC generation here.
05:04Now, listen up.
05:04Everybody left face, except for you, the losers here.
05:07These are prisoners of war.
05:09These are dead guys, all right?
05:10Because they didn't do their job right.
05:13Everybody wave bye-bye to them.
05:15Good exhalation.
05:16Turn the air off.
05:17Stole the regulator underneath the manifold.
05:23The students learn every dive procedure step by step, in strict sequence, during a real operation, in cold water.
05:31Following these procedures might save their lives.
05:34Above your head.
05:35Upon reaching the surface, what do you say?
05:37I feel fine.
05:39That's all it is.
05:40Air the water.
05:47Carelessness underwater equals death.
05:55When the students enter the pool to practice FSAs, attention to detail takes on a whole new meaning.
06:03You misunderstood.
06:04You think we're supposed to turn your air on?
06:07You're supposed to be ready to dive when you come up here, right?
06:10So, you're ready to die?
06:14Is that it?
06:15Why don't you drop on down?
06:17Hey, Franzia, is this your swim buddy?
06:19Negative.
06:19Negative?
06:20Yeah, you were with them.
06:21Why don't you drop on down?
06:22You didn't have your air on either?
06:25What is wrong with you?
06:27Do you think it's probably pretty important to have your air on before you enter the water?
06:30Take seats.
06:33Take seats.
06:34I'm kind of freaked out at first when they told us to take off the mask and the whole water
06:38beating in your nostril and having to drip down your neck.
06:41You're like, ah, I didn't do it.
06:43But we just get used to it.
06:46They're definitely beginners in the dynamics of diving.
06:49But like I said, this is the building blocks of combat diving.
06:54They've learned the basics here.
06:59Morgan is having trouble.
07:00He can't breathe through his mouth when his face mask is full of water.
07:05Settle down.
07:06Okay, just relax.
07:09Okay?
07:09What's the problem?
07:10The water fall going down the back of my throat.
07:12All right, now we're just going to keep practicing this until you get it.
07:16Just remember, you're on the surface.
07:19All you got to do is take it off.
07:20Don't freak out.
07:21Just relax.
07:21Try to relax.
07:22Go to your happy place.
07:23Okay?
07:24You find a lot of guys never dove before.
07:26Sometimes it's the first time they've seen the ocean, much less a pool of this size.
07:29I want them to have you do.
07:30You get some interesting things that happen down there.
07:32And guys quickly learn how little they like the water.
07:36For Morgan, if his problems in the water continue, it will draw unwanted attention and place him
07:42under the instructor's microscope.
07:44It is not the kind of attention either Morgan or anyone else needs.
07:48It is said that water can make cowards of us all.
08:01The psychology of pool week works on everybody's mind.
08:06Many students who project confidence find themselves in a new situation.
08:09They won't have control under water.
08:12It's the first day of pool week.
08:22Today's dive is ditch and don, which is essentially broken down like this.
08:27Today they learn how to ditch your gear and don their gear and the correct procedures, which
08:33in turn will pretty much build them for success for a pool week.
08:38It's not really that difficult if you keep your wits about it, you know, one procedure at a time.
08:44Just keep them in order in your mind.
08:46You live on a farm all your life and you get thrown into sucking regularly, you're going to have problems.
08:50We do all this in three days.
08:57In some classes, everybody passes.
08:59In some classes, we lose 20% through the dive phase.
09:11I check too many times, bro.
09:14What do you mean you check too many?
09:15I check my straps.
09:23Get him jocked up, straighten him up like his chest strap is going at an angle here.
09:27I like that.
09:28Clean him up.
09:29The other way.
09:29All right.
09:30We'll get back in line.
09:33Seaman Morgan, he's had problems during our first two pool dives last week.
09:38Stayed right here.
09:39Very uncomfortable during all water evolutions.
09:41You know what you're doing, right?
09:43Check your toy.
09:43Okay.
09:44You know what you're doing, right, Morgan?
09:46Here we are.
09:46Okay.
09:47Enter the water.
09:50Enter the water.
09:51Woo!
09:51Morgan is the only student requiring a retest.
09:56Unknown to him or his instructors, Morgan has a physical problem.
10:00He can't prevent water from trickling down his throat without wearing a face mask.
10:05But Morgan is having problems following procedures as well.
10:09He is not demonstrating an ability to remain calm under stress.
10:12For Morgan, the performance clock is ticking.
10:15I feel fine.
10:17There's a lot of different types of students out there that we have to deal with.
10:20And it's not all mental.
10:22Some of it's physical capabilities.
10:23And we just have to break through those barriers.
10:26Everybody's not ready to be a combat diver when they get here.
10:28That's our job, to make them combat divers.
10:31Failure.
10:32Time.
10:34728.
10:35728.
10:36Major.
10:37The needs of the many are greater than the needs of the few.
10:41As Morgan is separated for further retesting, the class moves on to the next evolution.
10:46If he fails that, then you take him to the air.
10:52Open circuit number four is nothing more than a continuation of open circuit number three.
10:56The only difference is, is you're going to do it with a blacked out face mask.
11:04In a real world operation, the best plan changes when the first shot is fired.
11:11If his dive gear develops a problem on a night operation, a SEAL must know his way by feel.
11:22Is there a headache still there?
11:23Yeah.
11:24Bad?
11:24Halfway through the evolution, Pool Week claims its first physical casualty.
11:30Lively's problem proves to be minor, but in dive phase, safety comes first.
11:35I think it might be a little bit of a CO2, too much CO2 in the body system, causing a headache
11:40up here, up in the head, or it could be also a partial sinus squeeze, where the pressure
11:46as they go down, the pressure builds in their head, causing the air pocket in the sinus to
11:50squeeze a little bit, causing the blood to come out of the nose and everything else.
11:54You really can't tell until we get to the actual doctor and have him look at it as well.
11:58So he's got a killer headache.
12:01Everybody turn around, hang your toes.
12:02Class 234's next evolution may be the toughest, most challenging one in second phase.
12:10The students must tread water for five minutes in 72 pounds of gear, without using their hands.
12:17This requires great physical stamina.
12:19The enemy is panic.
12:21When a student feels he is drowning, the urge to use his hands or head for the side of
12:26the pool is overwhelming.
12:30Keep your hands off the wall.
12:31Back up.
12:32Stunowitz, back up.
12:34Keep your hands off the wall.
12:36I guess I just panicked a little.
12:38Kept my kicks too short and too fast, instead of long strides.
12:42It's just getting your technique done, I guess.
12:46You guys got that panhand on water, right?
12:48Oh!
12:50It's a lot of weight, and it's hard to tread water.
12:57It's heavy.
12:59You have a job to do.
13:00You do it to the best of your ability.
13:02If a guy gets hurt, you take care of him.
13:04But if it's just a minor aches and pain, you're a little bit tired, hey, that's the nature
13:08of the beast.
13:10Get out there.
13:13Suck it up.
13:14That's the hardest thing I've done yet.
13:17That's the first thing I've had any real difficulty with yet.
13:19I can't hear it, bud.
13:23Let's go, Rosie.
13:24Kick it.
13:25Treading water claims another casualty.
13:29Rosebro appears to pass out.
13:31At 17, he is the youngest member of the class, but he never quits, going under rather than
13:42heading for the side.
13:43How about we start with a simple question?
13:44Who are you?
13:45Yes.
13:46See you, Rosebro.
13:48Thanks.
13:48See you, Rosebro.
13:49See you, Rosebro.
13:51Order to the ambulance.
13:52One, two, three, one.
13:52Rosebro's problem proves uneventful.
13:54The precautions taken are as much to test the readiness of Bud's emergency procedures and
14:00personnel as they are to protect Rosebro.
14:02Bud's students are highly competitive.
14:11None of them like to fail.
14:14Every procedure underwater is part of a simple series of tasks in a stressful environment.
14:19Be honest with me now.
14:21Did you put your hands in the water?
14:22Yes or no?
14:23I had one hand that went under.
14:24Yes, sir?
14:24I didn't ask a question.
14:25Did your hands go underwater?
14:27One hand was underwater.
14:28I mean, they did.
14:29Okay, then that's a failure, right?
14:31Yes, sir.
14:31So why are you giving me attitude to being all upset?
14:34I'm not trying to, sir, sir, sir.
14:34Okay, well, you failed the evolution.
14:38If you cannot meet the standards, that means you failed, correct?
14:40Yes, sir.
14:43That's my job here is to uphold the standards and make sure that you perform like you're supposed
14:48to.
14:48And if you don't, then what happens?
14:50You fail, right?
14:51You got some pressure.
14:54Beat it.
15:02Gear exchange is the next evolution.
15:07It's all about working together under pressure.
15:14Among others,
15:18Rivera and Bischoff fail.
15:20Well, we got frickin' cracked open.
15:21That was a little smooth, wasn't it?
15:23I think it was better.
15:24Stand off.
15:27On the scum gutter.
15:28What happens is the uncomfortable guy just sits down there, confused, and the real comfortable
15:34guy swims around, takes his fins off for him, takes his mask off for him, puts the life jacket
15:38on for him, basically just does all the work.
15:40And you can tell that if he was down there with somebody else that wasn't as experienced,
15:44he would definitely have problems.
15:45So the guy who's done all the work is going to definitely get a pass, and the guy who is confused and is not doing all the work is going to fail.
15:54While others pass their retests, Morgan continues to be unsuccessful.
15:58Just got to follow the procedures perfectly.
16:02Keep breathing.
16:02What'd you do, Morgan?
16:03You said I was holding on to the airpiece too much.
16:06So basically he was doing all the work while you were down there doing nothing?
16:11Yeah.
16:12The instructors now suspect Morgan has a physical problem.
16:17I think he has some type of problem where he cannot breathe with a mask off.
16:24He cannot, he can't collapse his esophagus.
16:27He allows water down his, the back of his throat.
16:30That induces a lot of panic.
16:32You know, he's one of these typical guys who have had no experience in the water.
16:37And that coupled with his little problem.
16:39And right now the stress is mounting, so he's just, he's floundering.
16:44I feel fine!
16:48Hey, you don't do this here.
16:51I might do that in the YMCA, but not here.
16:54I gotta do that.
16:56By the numbers with Morgan, he gets no chances.
17:00Yeah, he's pretty much shot his silver bullet in my book.
17:02So when he comes back in the water, one slip up,
17:05if he allows his buddy to do all the work, you know, halfway through it, I'm going to pull him.
17:11So I'd rather see him leave now than hurt himself or anyone else.
17:16Okay, right away, shake everything out.
17:17Well, for me, I'm the proctor of this class, which means I do all the paperwork with them.
17:22I'm in every time devolution with them.
17:24I'm basically their mother through training, through second phase.
17:26So I have a little more invested than the rest of the instructors with these students.
17:30So I don't like to see anybody really go away if we can get them through training.
17:37Morgan's isolation and anxiety are increasing.
17:41He's falling behind, but can still control his own fate.
17:46As his problems mount, however, he is becoming more and more conspicuous to the instructors.
17:56I feel fine.
17:58Time.
17:59Five minutes, 25 seconds.
18:01Fail.
18:03On a sequence, pop his chest strap and his waist strap.
18:06That's the thing about a class.
18:08You have the verbal and non-verbal pressures.
18:11Hey, when you start bringing pressure upon yourself and it starts affecting a class,
18:15hey, it affects you personally.
18:17Hey, you get with your class.
18:20Hey, Morgan, go sit against the wall.
18:26This student has failed the fourth time for Ditch and Dawn.
18:31He now has to go to an academic review board where they'll look at his entire record
18:36and they'll decide whether to give him another try at gear exchange and let him move on
18:42or whether he'll be dropped from training completely.
18:50Instructor Barry asked me if the class had come early to the O course
18:53and dug out the crawl pit.
18:56And I told him that not that I had seen.
19:00So, and I told him I couldn't rightly answer that question
19:03because I wasn't looking in that direction, if at all that was done.
19:07In Bud's, there are no shortcuts to success.
19:10Answer the question when it's asked to you.
19:14You guys forming up?
19:15Forming up.
19:16Class 234 tries to create one on the O course, but they're caught.
19:20The instructors are not amused.
19:23All right, listen up.
19:25Obviously, you guys are starting to take advantage of me and giving you guys breaks and stuff.
19:29Give you an extra ten minutes for lunch, and what do you guys do?
19:32You come out here and you dig out your sand pits.
19:34You set the logs up.
19:36That's not going to start happening.
19:38You guys are starting to get lackadaisical as a class.
19:40Laughing and coking and joking with some of the instructors.
19:43That's unacceptable.
19:43All right, you guys got two minutes at the surf wet and sandy.
19:46Go.
19:47Move it!
19:48Hurry up!
19:49Move it!
19:51Class 234 must now pay the price.
19:54But the instructors have a larger goal.
19:57They know the class needs to regain their focus
19:59if they are to pass one of the major milestones of second phase,
20:03the pool competency test.
20:08How much time do you get right now?
20:10A minute and 20 seconds.
20:11Okay.
20:12Then when the last guy comes across,
20:14give me about one minute with the last five.
20:18Okay.
20:20Last five!
20:21Why don't you come over and join me?
20:22Nice try, B. Shaw.
20:23You almost made it.
20:24Line it up.
20:25You know what you're doing.
20:26Double arm width apart.
20:28Spread it out.
20:29Begin!
20:31Start jumpers.
20:32Go!
20:32Go!
20:33Go!
20:34Go!
20:34Go!
20:34Go!
20:35Go!
20:35Go!
20:37Go!
20:37Morgan over there.
20:39Let me demonstrate real quick.
20:41Morgan returns to the class after his academic review board.
20:45He is out of chances.
20:47The instructors keep the pressure on.
20:51Morgan, are you not very coordinated?
20:53Who are you?
20:54I'm searching with Henry.
20:55Who are you?
20:56Yes.
20:56Who are you?
20:56No.
20:57Who are you?
20:57Yes.
20:57You're not very coordinated.
20:59Watch what I'm doing.
21:01Up.
21:02Down.
21:03You see how they went out and then came back together?
21:06Oh, yeah.
21:06Up.
21:07Down.
21:08Do them like that.
21:11Up.
21:14Up.
21:17Up.
21:17Up.
21:19Here we go.
21:19Stand by.
21:21Hey, gents.
21:22In all of these evolutions, it carries right over into pool week.
21:26It's attention to detail.
21:29All right?
21:29When I tell you how to do it, I'm going to tell you how to do it once.
21:33Do it right the first time.
21:38So pay attention to detail, and you'll pass tomorrow.
21:44You are, sir.
21:45Moving.
21:47Beautiful.
21:48Standing outside the office.
21:49You guys are moving on.
21:50You're going to prepare me?
21:52To pass pool comp, each student must demonstrate attention to detail while being harassed by the instructor.
21:58It is easier said than done.
22:04They come up to you, grab you, spin you around a couple times, rip off your mask, rip out your regulator, turn your air off.
22:11And you have to basically get your composure, turn on your air, find your regulator, put it back in, check yourself, make sure all your straps are properly put on, sized up, and then you're done.
22:22And that's why we're here, is to get some action, have some fun, get a little beat up.
22:29To simulate surf hits, the instructors tie knots in the students' air hoses that can't be untied.
22:36They want to see guys think and perform in unfamiliar situations.
22:40When I was trying to undo the knot, I was tugging on the hose.
22:43I couldn't get the knot out so I couldn't get air into it.
22:45It was just, I was pulling at the wrong stuff.
22:49It would just probably take me or something to him.
22:52If I would have pulled on the right one, it probably would have been pretty easy to get out.
22:57They're trying to get the damn knots out, and they're just concentrating on that, and not really focusing on the big picture.
23:03For many of the students, ten seconds without air is an eternity.
23:08Less than one in five pass the first time.
23:10Man, I'm running good today.
23:12Twenty percent.
23:15Twenty percent pass rate.
23:18Did it surprise me?
23:21Yeah, a little.
23:23But, I mean, I failed before and come back, so.
23:27Kolarov sustains several unintentional injuries during his test.
23:32He fights through them, but misses one small detail.
23:35I did good, and towards the end, I was out of breath, and I forgot to put my stupid weight
23:42bell on, and stole my straps, and it killed me.
23:44I failed for that.
23:46Never checked your gear, never checked your J-Val, never did any dive suit check at all.
23:51He missed three dive suit checks.
23:54Morgan.
23:55Morgan.
23:55Time was 15-15.
24:00Failed.
24:02Failure to complete sequence.
24:04Times three.
24:06Give him the chance, man.
24:07I'm giving him the chance.
24:08Call me the candy man.
24:10Santa Claus.
24:11Morgan is such a great guy.
24:13Great athlete.
24:15Right now, he's having a serious problem with the S and seal, you know?
24:17He's having a problem with the water.
24:19I don't know what's going to happen with him.
24:20For the men who don't pass, the stakes are higher.
24:23Each failure brings them closer to being dropped from butts.
24:27You've been breathing.
24:28You've been doing this.
24:29You just start thinking too much about it.
24:31Just go by muscle memory.
24:33If you run out of air, you're out of air.
24:34You don't have any reserve.
24:35Source is interrupted.
24:36You have to check your straps.
24:38You have to do all of that.
24:39Is it life-correct, correct?
24:46Bischoff.
24:4719 minutes, 56 seconds.
24:49Fail.
24:50The guy is panicked.
24:51Confusion.
24:52He has no clue.
24:53What's going on?
24:54The guy's complete soup sandwich, period.
24:56That's exactly what he is.
25:02Right when he entered the water, it was the second time around, so you know that he's going
25:05to have some problems, so we kept two men on him.
25:07I was one of them.
25:09We were watching.
25:09We gave him a surfeit, and he kind of seemed sort of panicky.
25:12We stayed close to them, and as soon as we took the regulator out of his mouth, you could
25:17see him gagging, kind of like struggling to hold his breath.
25:21I knew he was fighting to stay down there.
25:24And then he just decided.
25:26He planted both feet.
25:27He was bolting to the surface.
25:28He didn't want anything more to do with that.
25:30And so we brought him back down to the bottom.
25:32We made him do a proper FSA.
25:33When Chira makes an improper FSA, it is a reminder that even in nine feet of water, death is only
25:40a breath away.
25:44Breathing air at depth and then holding it on the way to the surface is a one-way ride
25:49to the recompression chamber, just to get muke it out.
25:59Keep it a scum gutter.
26:01Chira's sickness is a small price to pay for learning the importance of following correct
26:06procedures.
26:07Holy smokes, that was scary.
26:10Hey, hey, thanks a lot.
26:11You got it.
26:12Rip his oral clothes off, trying to pull him back down.
26:17Let's go beat him.
26:18Pass or fail?
26:19You're going to have a 10-minute free time to make sure that he's all right and he didn't
26:23develop an AGE.
26:25And then we're going to place him back in line.
26:29He'll try it again tomorrow.
26:32We knew he was going to be pretty panicky, so right after he got his brief, I added one
26:37last thing, and that was if all else fails and he feels that the world is closing in on
26:42himself, that he needs a signal out of here and the standby diver's clover and give him
26:46the regulator.
26:47He was showing signs of panic.
26:51He planted his foot once.
26:53The other instructor placed his knee back down on the deck, and then he planted his foot
26:57again, and I sweeped his leg back as well.
26:59Finally, we gave him a third stage hit, which basically he should be able to get an undone.
27:03He didn't even attempt to do that.
27:10He looked over at the standby diver and signaled the out-of-air signal, and we walked over and
27:16gave the regulator and he breathed all the way to the surface.
27:18If you are consistent highlighting yourself, both with the instructors and the class, if
27:24you're a thorn in their side, it's like the human body, all of a sudden the class will
27:30build around you and all of a sudden they'll squirt you out.
27:32Everybody else take your right hand and start patting the guy next to you on the back saying,
27:37it's going to be okay.
27:38It's going to be okay.
27:39You're going to pass.
27:40You guys are going to pass.
27:41It's okay.
27:42Just learning from the mistakes.
27:43Again, like I said, it's a new day.
27:44Hopefully yesterday was just a bad day.
27:45Take it from there.
27:46As the first four trainees begin the retest, not every obstacle they encounter will be solvable.
28:00Instructors expect each man to make a minimum ten-second focused effort to work out of a tight
28:05spot.
28:06But the road to failure is paved with good intentions.
28:09In a swimming pool or in a dark, cold ocean, success and failure are separated by seconds.
28:16Getty's is the class leader, but water is oblivious to rank.
28:27Reality underwater is relentlessly impartial.
28:30Ability is the tool for survival.
28:32He was clean after that.
28:35Left arm and scum guard, get out of the pool.
28:39He's pulling from just behind the mouthpiece.
28:44Never start pulling on the horn.
28:46That's what you get every time.
28:48Official temperature, 48 degrees Fahrenheit.
28:51He's firing.
28:52Hey, let's go.
28:53Hey, look.
28:54You got all the skills.
28:55You need to pass this thing.
28:56All you need to do is relax and fight through all the problems.
28:59You're almost giving up is what Senior and I have seen.
29:02You give up halfway through the problem.
29:04Oh, yeah.
29:05You know, I think it's time to come off my back.
29:07So do you.
29:08That's why I kept on giving you so many.
29:10You take it on board and if you get back in the pool, you'll pass.
29:13Any questions?
29:14Negative.
29:15And in the water?
29:16I want to quit.
29:17Negative.
29:18And in the water.
29:43I want to quit.
29:44Oh, no.
29:45It's my bank.
29:46It's my bank.
29:47It's my bank.
29:48And I want to quit.
29:49OK.
29:50Ha-ha.
29:51Ha-ha.
29:52Ha-ha.
29:53Ha-ha.
29:54Ha-ha.
29:55Ha-ha.
29:56Ha-ha.
29:57Ha-ha.
29:58Ha-ha.
29:59Ha-ha.
30:00Ha-ha.
30:02Ha-ha.
30:03Hollie.
30:04Have you gone yet?
30:05Have you gone with Dr. Calvin?
30:06Negative?
30:07All right.
30:08It's my bag, lady.
30:09Ha-ha.
30:10Ha-ha.
30:11Ha-ha.
30:12As retesting continues and more students pass, the pressure on those who remain behind mounts.
30:23Hey, who's under that blanket?
30:27Bischoff, have you had him yet?
30:29I think I'm dirty on you.
30:30Am I dirty on you?
30:31Have you had instructor Barry?
30:33Negative.
30:34Negative, you have not?
30:35Negative.
30:36Alright, well you get to get warm by getting in the water.
30:38Come on, hurry up Bischoff, get in the water.
30:41Now it just feels, you know, just glad to have it out of the way.
30:48And in the water.
30:51Bischoff and Morgan are the two individuals that are having the major problem.
30:56They seem really apprehensive when under there.
30:58They go without air for more than a couple seconds and they start really getting uncomfortable,
31:02panic, confused, they don't know what to do under there.
31:05Their main problem is when we give them an exhalation, they still have air,
31:08and they end up breathing a little water in with it, which you just need to control and swallow.
31:12They seem to have a problem with that and they usually end up starting to gag and they call to go to the surface.
31:17They're really uncomfortable down there.
31:18They can't control it.
31:20We're going to take them back.
31:21They're going to get into a good uniform.
31:23We'll form a second base board and then the director of training and the basic training officer
31:27will decide whether to let them continue with training, get two more tries on Monday,
31:31or if they need to maybe come back in a couple of years when they're a little more comfortable and mature.
31:36Swim body lane!
31:38Class 234 began phase two with 29 students.
31:43By week three they are down to 27.
31:46Before this day is over, that number will drop again.
31:53As the rest of the class prepares for their first ocean dive,
31:57Morgan, Scott and Bischoff are left behind for their final attempt to pass pool comp.
32:03It's hard to just let it go again.
32:12A couple hours I'll be feeling good.
32:15Actually, it's doing good for some reason.
32:18Holy shit!
32:20I don't know.
32:21It just kind of started happening since the end of the second base.
32:24No room for negative thoughts.
32:25No room to mess up whatsoever.
32:28Today should go perfectly.
32:31Today should go exactly as planned.
32:38Okay, we have three students that are being given actually their fifth and sixth try at pool competency today.
32:44They were unable to pass their first four tries,
32:47but the instructor staff decided that they're safe and competent enough to go ahead and give them five and six.
32:53We think that they can be trained to actually possibly become a competent diver.
32:58Put it into the water.
33:02Into the water.
33:03The time for talk is over.
33:06For these three men, the future will unfold in nine feet of water.
33:10A lifetime in 20 minutes.
33:13Into the water.
33:14That was a deep sea construction diver before I came here.
33:19So I have five years pretty much of water experience.
33:23I had a hard time putting it all together because there was always something small.
33:27And it wasn't exactly being uncomfortable.
33:30It was just little things where I'm like, oh, I can't believe I just did it.
33:35All I can say is, thank God that is over.
33:38Cory, fist off, time.
33:4021-17.
33:41Fail.
33:46If they do not pass on their fifth or sixth try today,
33:49they will be taken to an academic review board and the higher-ups will decide what happens to them.
33:54Despite all his previous problems, Morgan rises to the challenge.
33:58His hard work and commitment and the effort of the instructors pay off.
34:03Morgan.
34:041904.
34:05Pass.
34:09Bischoff's goal of becoming a SEAL now is in jeopardy.
34:18All right, here's the deal.
34:19Pay off to Bischoff.
34:20The recommendation to the board, to the commanding officer is to roll you back.
34:25That should be good news.
34:27You're obviously too far back to continue with training with class 234.
34:31But you've shown enough aptitude for us and desire and improvement that you can pass this the next time through.
34:37So you're going to start second phase with 235 from week one, day one.
34:44Yes, sir.
34:45Go guys.
34:46During second phase, every evolution brings a new set of expectations.
34:58After a few familiarization dives in the pool, the class makes its first ocean dive in the Dragers.
35:06The class also begins to learn underwater navigation, an essential skill to the mission of all frogmen.
35:21As the class's diving skills increase, the instructors never cease devising evolutions designed to reinforce teamwork.
35:31Everything is done with a time limit.
35:33Urgency and efficiency are a characteristic of SEAL real-world operations.
35:38This exercise is called student soup.
35:44Every piece of gear available is thrown into the dip tank.
35:47It is another timed evolution designed to test and teach group unity.
35:52What we'll look for throughout this evolution is the student that will mainly look for his gear, find it,
35:58maybe get his dive buddies if he wants, and he'll kind of wear them off in the corner and watch his class get hammered.
36:05To be a warrior means fighting well as an individual.
36:08To be a soldier means fighting well in a team.
36:11To be a SEAL means doing both.
36:14It all kind of builds on itself.
36:16What we'll do is we'll undo some stress on them and see how they react if they just fold under pressure.
36:26This evolution combines the seemingly contradictory requirements of individual effort and teamwork.
36:32I hope that's everything to say here.
36:35One minute!
36:37If you're going to get team gear, you're unit gear, then yourselves!
36:45You don't go hide in their locker room!
36:47Five...
36:48Six...
36:49One...
36:50The worst tag any frogman could be labeled with by his peers is to be known as an individual and not a team player.
36:57Ruthman and Spinowitz will learn this lesson the hard way.
37:00Don't we pay you to be a leader?
37:02We want to help you out.
37:03So, what's your excuse?
37:04What's your excuse to efface each other and put on your gear on your knees?
37:11Go do it.
37:16Hurry up! Get your gear on!
37:18Hey, Spinowitz, you and Mr. Rufin will not be last.
37:27No, no, you two stay on your knees. You're all individuals.
37:30Get your head up.
37:31Six inches.
37:32Just put your feet down.
37:34Go get cars.
37:35No big deal.
37:36Oh, man.
37:37Oh, look at that.
37:38Turn around.
37:39See how they turn around and push his legs down.
37:41There you go.
37:42A lot of people think that you'll just hammer the class just to hammer them,
37:46but that's not the way we do business.
37:48If you're screwing up and you need to have attention to detail,
37:51we'll straighten you up.
37:52And this class hasn't had to have that until today.
37:56They got a little 15-minute session of getting straightened up.
38:00Get up.
38:01Get up.
38:02Get up there.
38:03Get up.
38:04In the SEAL teams and at BUDS, the needs of the few will never outweigh the needs of the many.
38:13All right, here's the deal.
38:14You guys are going to be entering half.
38:15You're going to follow the rudder down.
38:16You're going to get to the dunce cap.
38:17Check out the screw.
38:18Check out the main strut that supports the weight of the shaft.
38:19Follow the shaft up.
38:20It's going to be rubber-coated.
38:21At first time, it's a little disorienting.
38:22I mean, it's intimidating.
38:23You hope they don't turn it on while you're down there.
38:38So we go into the ship.
38:40We hit the rudder first.
38:42The instructor points out where to place the mines to cause the most damage.
38:46He moves us on towards the propellers and to the shaft, which hold the propeller up.
38:51And he says, place them on here.
38:53And he shows us how to counter-place them.
38:55Instead, when they blow, it'll blow against each other and cause the strut to just crack in half.
39:01Always, there seems to be one more dive.
39:06One more training evolution.
39:08For Class 234, the relentless pace demands personal sacrifice.
39:13A rule every SEAL learns at Buzz.
39:16You're always in the water, and you're always tired, and you're always just in a bad mood, pretty much.
39:21Getting up really f***ing early.
39:23I mean, some mornings we have mustered by 4.30, 4.45.
39:26And then, like last night, I didn't get in bed until 1.
39:31So, you know, you're getting three, four, five hours sleep a night max, a lot of nights.
39:36And then, it's not just that, but then you get up and you have to, okay, we have a four-mile time to run, or O-course, or two more dives today.
39:44And so, where's you out?
39:46MRU is supposed to be a meal ready to eat, but depending on your digestive system and the type of meal that you get, it's either a meal ready to exit or a meal refusing to exit.
39:56Yeah, I'm eating beef stew and crackers, and hopefully I can trade out and get rid of this damn peanut butter.
40:03This stuff will stop you up quicker than anything else.
40:05For Class 234, the long ordeal of becoming watermen is nearly over.
40:10Only one evolution remains.
40:12Inside their diving locker room, students have a small sanctuary to escape the instructor's scrutiny.
40:18Instructors respect the boundaries.
40:21I've been missing breakfast every day for the past week and a half.
40:25Students use their brief moments of rest to do what all BUDS students do.
40:30Eat, joke, complain, and try to stay warm.
40:34Hey man, don't, don't film the blanket.
40:37They'll get in trouble.
40:39Maybe.
40:40Oh, they won't know about it.
40:42It seems you have a nice whole blanket in here.
40:47I'm sick of being cold.
40:51Where's your blanket?
40:53I need to get one. I don't have one.
40:55That's when I promise to make cookies and clean the house.
40:59I promise to start doing the laundry and stuff.
41:03And then you've got someone like Danny making me look back.
41:05His wife comes over and tells Becky,
41:07Oh, Danny's great.
41:08He's great.
41:09He cleans everything up.
41:10He does the dishes.
41:11Becky's like, Oh, really?
41:12Yeah, he cooks.
41:13He cleans.
41:14This doesn't quite have the accent that you were just putting on.
41:17No sympathy here.
41:18Look, I show her my little bruises, my little owies, you know, and stuff.
41:21She's like, I don't care.
41:22You told me how tough you are.
41:24Suck it up.
41:29The final training exercise, or FTX, is the culmination of everything learned in second phase.
41:35Students bite their Drager mouthpieces tightly as a reminder that water will contaminate the rig if the mouthpiece comes loose.
41:43Group one, start your purge.
41:44FTX dives, it's a final training exercise dives for second phase.
41:49They take all the skills that they learned in second phase on diving and try and incorporate them all together into actually hitting a target ship.
42:00The FTX demands a level of precision that these students have never faced at BUDS.
42:17It's as close to a combat dive as they'll get before they join an operational SEAL team.
42:30The members of Class 234 learn well.
42:43Each swim team successfully locates their target, performs the mission, then arrives safely and on time at their extraction point.
42:51Of the 29 men in Class 234 who began second phase, 26 will move on to Phase 3, their final step to graduating BUDS.
43:07The class is unified, tired, but anxious to begin the final 10 weeks of their BUDS training.
43:13Phase 3 will be the most dangerous phase yet.
43:21Phase 3
43:45Phase 4
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