Marine Corp. Survival School

[budanski]

Examing the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training School where summer and winter courses turn out uniquely uniquely qualified troops. documentary (2002)

Discovery Channel
July 4, 2003
7 pm central time.

sorry for the short notice.

[budanski]

Following this....

America's Secret Soldiers

A profile of Navy SEALS incudes their highly decorated history and new military technology to be used in future missions. documentary (2003)

[Alleycat]

Got back in time to see the one about the SEALs. That was very cool, I especially liked the training they showed. Some footage was taken from the other shows but most was new to me.

[budanski]

I especially liked the CQ training where the operators had to react to different threats once the blinders were lifted. :D

[hood]

yeah it looks like they finally have lots of new footage to update their shows with, now that there was so much SF activity in afghanistan and iraq. They even had a clip from that AC-130 spectre gunship video in the intro.

[96B]

The narrator of the show at the beginning actually says something like "SOCOM has over 40,000 commandos" or something to that effect. I believe we here came to the conclusion that the number above includes all of the support staff and personell and not the actual "shooters."

It was a great show, and some of the footage had been seen before but most seemed new. Gotta love the SF guys posing next to the pot or the friggen helicopter almost crashing at the end of the SEALs part man I'll bet those guys had to change thier bdu's when they got back to base! :lol:

[Alleycat]

Yeah the helicopter was crazy. It was so fast I wasnt sure if it happened or not. And man the SEAL sniper training that was bad.

[Smintjes]

They aired that show over here in Belgium last week. The helicopter was just crazy.

But, as usual, the Belgian narrators (they dubbed it) didn't understand jack sh*t about the subject. Quote: "US Special Forces were founded after 9/11, with the sole purpose of combating terrorism. :slap:

[budanski]

LOL :D

They should have used Voxtec's Phrasealator (http://www.phraselator.com/products.htm) or DARPA's Babylon (http://www.darpa.mil/iao/Babylon.htm)

[dez000]

Hehe smintjes i noticed that too, idiots :p


I did think that some sf folks were a bit like rambo (no offence!)

But it was very cool to watch!

Too bad it was dubbed!!!