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(whirring)

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(exciting music)

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- You're gonna be hot.

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You're gonna be tired.

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You're gonna be miserable, wishing you didn't come here.

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My job is to give you the tools

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and teach you that you have the willpower

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to survive this.

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^We train the best for the worst,

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^and that's it.

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^- So we are out here today,

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^starting off the field phase of training

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^for Sierra West where students are going to learn

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^how to survive and evade

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through this arid high desert terrain.

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The purpose of this training when you boil it down

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is we're teaching our students to survive

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and return with honor from any isolating incident.

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- [Trainer] It's teaching the basics,

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not just on hiding, but navigation,

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how to procure water, how to procure food.

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- [Soldier] It tastes so good. You should try it.

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- [Trainer] So we train in this area for one reason,

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because it's very similar to a lot of areas

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that we are deploying to.

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It's also one of the hardest environments

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that you can live in,

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so if you can survive here,

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you can survive almost anywhere.

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- But we can carry it back with us.

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We'll wash it off when we get down there,

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and we'll eat it.

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- There's plenty of physical barriers.

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Obviously, we're in a survival situation,

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but the hardest ones are, they're mental.

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You have to have the will to survive.

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If you're trained to do this,

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it's not that hard.

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But going through the training to learn it

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developing that, that grit, that inner strength

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to want to get through it,

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that's the hard part.

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^- You know, there's a chance that this could happen,

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^and, you know, I don't want it to happen,

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^and I don't think anybody I know wants it to happen,

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but it's a possibility that can happen,

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and there's no other better way to do it.

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- [Trainer] All right. Listen up!

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- These men and women, when they join the service,

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they deploy and go down range,

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they can be put behind enemy lines in harm's way,

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and what we aim to do is teach them

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everything we can on survival skills.

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So if they do become isolated or captured,

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they can find a way to return with honor.

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(intense music)