Sarah Kanowski

Their beards are long and they are tough.

And there is this little 17-year-old still who's just finished this pretty underwhelming six months of officer training.

And the goal is let's push you guys for the next three weeks and see who gets through.

There's this saying that some man, fighting man, will...

They will die before they are embarrassed.

So they're so worried about not being tough enough or being embarrassed that they might be a coward that they're willing to die for that.

And I'm in this environment where we're going from lots of guys, you know, 20, 30 guys that want to get through this course and then we're down to the final eight.

By then, my knee is blown out.

You know, if we got any sleep, I wake up and I would have black blood coming out of my nose and my ears.

What?

What from?

Just my sinuses were just destroyed because you're in the water for 16 hours a day.

And when you're not in the water, you're doing thousands of pushups or you're running barefoot from HMAS Penguin to Manly and then you're swimming back.

They're just beasting you for weeks and weeks to see who's tough enough.

And playing mind games, you know, they say, you guys have done really well.

Take a break.

There's a big feast here.

So you eat the food and they go, no, eat up, eat up.

Come on, you guys have deserved it.

And then you eat up and they go, just kidding.