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Quite incredible.

And if mortals can go through that, I would not want to see what GW imagine for Space Marine aspirants

I've gone about 43 hours without sleep. After about 38 the sleep deprivation sets in and it's hard to focus on anything. There's hallucinations as well. Of course, I also have spells of sleeping 12+ hours at a time.

Sleep deprivation is a funny thing...
Waking hallucinations are a bitch...

Whatever it is, it's hyperbolic. GW only writes in superlatives.

thunderingjove wrote:Whatever it is, it's hyperbolic. GW only writes in superlatives.

They spend five years awake and they blink they're shot!

If you read the fluff about Space Marines it details that SM can go weeks without sleep due to the fact they can use 1 side of their brain while they let the otherside rest, thus allowing them to remain fully awake even while resting up.

Of course they are space marines after all whereas human use both sides of the brain constantly

40 mile road march with a 60lbs loadout
Getting their neophyte balls smoked off in the pit. If they vomit they have to pick it up and put it in their pocket.
Log pt. Lots and lots of log pt.
Intense land navigation courses
Water survival training
Duck walk.

Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

If I left the army right now and went to the police academy I would cry frOm laughing hard at its "physical requirements"

....walking hallucinations?????

DickBandit wrote:If I left the army right now and went to the police academy I would cry frOm laughing hard at its "physical requirements"

Agreed. We have a couple friends of the family that are/were cops. Not saying they are lazy fat slouches or anything but uh......really?

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Aren't most uncles slowed? Mine gave me my first beer, at twelve.

thunderingjove wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Aren't most uncles slowed? Mine gave me my first beer, at twelve.

Does American beer even count as alcohol?

stonned_astartes wrote:....walking hallucinations?????

Sorry waking dreams...
Still they are still a bitch, also very confusing...

When I was pretending to go through BUDS I fictitiously had no trouble getting through Hell Week. Not sure what the big deal is, really wasn't that hard.

efarrer wrote:

thunderingjove wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Aren't most uncles slowed? Mine gave me my first beer, at twelve.

Does American beer even count as alcohol?

Wow really?! That works with Brits but uh... I can throw a baseball at your country, our beer isnt THAT far off

Yeah, and California microbrewery does the job.

Agreed. Besides, I dont want to pretend I like drinking sludge just to prove Im a man!

Yeah, but that doesn't mean you can claim it with a pink drink. None of us are that progressive, right?

efarrer wrote:

thunderingjove wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Aren't most uncles slowed? Mine gave me my first beer, at twelve.

Does American beer even count as alcohol?

As though Canadian beer is any different.

stonned_astartes wrote:....walking hallucinations?????

Yep. I once stayed awake for about 50 hours with the help of a case of jolt cola, and I thought that I was able to alter gravity and that I was walking around on the ceiling. And that was without any 190 proof everclear in it.

You actually did do all those things, it is just that when the jolt cola wore off so did your amazing powers.

Isn't Jolt illegal?

thunderingjove wrote:Isn't Jolt illegal?

nope its a myth just like the physical requirements of the police.

Anyway the Space Marines probably have to do alot more than just that, to them its more than just that.

on a side note i have gone 60 hours without sleep using lots of gatorade and mountain dew (Do not attempt). Afterwards i started seeing weird stuff. and then the next day after 60 hours of sleep i noticed it was actually 48 hours of sleep and that i had dreamed the other 12 hours, explaining how I was able to have 30 girls talk to me and ask me to go out on a date with them. :/

So who do you guys think goes through worse, SEALS or PJ's?

Slarg232 wrote:So who do you guys think goes through worse, SEALS or PJ's?

or the royal marine commandos?

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Mate, dont you remember when I was talking to GES about this? I told him how hardcore SF training is having done it, and he said

"My brother is in the border patrol and he said their training makes SEALS cry!"

And then Dogma pointed out his brother was probably embelishing his story to try and impress him, and the lad spat his dummy out.

Seriously, men are men, and as a result everyone likes to make out like they have it the toughest, but even civilians know that only the military do actual diffcult training, and even thats easy for the most part. Only SF training is hard, regular army/navy/airforce stuff is fething gay. And I know because ive done it.

I joined regular army infantry as a teenager, and spent two years with the Yorkshire regiment before I joined RM commando. ordinary phys.. 6 mile runs.. 10 mile marches, gym work.. assault courses carrying only rifles.

But then a few years down the line I meet some lads from the Yorkshire regiment .. "Oh you guys arent so tough, our training is just as hard!"

That's men for you.. vain creatures we are, and we all like to act like Billy Big Balls.


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Asherian Command wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:So who do you guys think goes through worse, SEALS or PJ's?

or the royal marine commandos?

I can say that its probably down to personal preference..

For example, I'm good with heights, I preferred the "Tarzan assault course" to the 30 mile yomp across dartmoor which made all my short arsed toe nails fall off, but the big long legged 6 footers in my troop were vice versa, or another example, if you aint a big swimmer, you will prefer PJs to SEALS.

I dont think a civvie (or someone who hasn't served in pretty much everything, and who is crazy enough to do that?!) can really state anything with much credibility, suffice to say they are all hard in their own way. The macho "who is toughest" thing really doesn't serve a purpose, and relaisitically, i dont think it could ever be answered satisfactorily anyway!

thunderingjove wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Aren't most uncles slowed? Mine gave me my first beer, at twelve.

I can't even recall when I had my first one as I've been permitted to have at it with food for about as long as I can remember, it's just been a normal presence in life.

But I am of the opinion that familiarity with such substances from a young age makes you less likely to abuse them when you are finally released upon the world...

mattyrm wrote:

KingCracker wrote:Heres proof that one of my Uncles is a complete and utter idiot. He once told my brother and myself, that the State Police have a FAR more difficult training program then the seals.....true story. He's not a police officer of any kind, hes a certified diesel mechanic. I dunno, the guy is a slow

Mate, dont you remember when I was talking to GES about this? I told him how hardcore SF training is having done it, and he said

"My brother is in the border patrol and he said their training makes SEALS cry!"

HA! I do remember that. I recently was talking with a friend who was in the Marines (USMC, not RM) and apparently Marine boot camp is harder and more in depth than even Army Ranger training. The only thing close to Marine Boot Camp is BUDS and Green Beret training, it would seem.

USMC boot camp is weak. Women can join.