Steve Bunting

So now it's like you're tested.

Got to hit these points.

You got to make it in time.

If you think you're walking this land, of course, you're crazy and you're doing it with a ruck on.

Right.

So you make it through land nav and then you start working into as you make it through that land phase, you go into kind of our our buds.

Sorry, not buds.

Our hell's hell week is like it's called patrol phase.

So it's a week long of you just no sleep, tear gas, having a patrol, and you're just setting up patrol bases and just the fundamentals of being a reconnaissance Marine.

Setting up a harbor site, building a sand table, building out the next stop, whether you got to do a reconnaissance on an empty field or a bridge or whatever it may be.

And you're just doing that nonstop where you're getting tear gassed, taking contact, taking casualties.

And it's just a suck fest through that whole week.

Once you get done with that, you kind of go into our next phase of training, which is amphib.

So we end up going down to Coronado.

and we start working through all the amphib stuff, getting the zodiacs out, learning how to build the zodiacs, learn how to do surf passage,

A lot of surface finning too.

Just doing the 2Ks every day, just breaking off those hip flexors, running around like a maniac and just doing a lot of the small boat tactics, doing things like collecting bottom samples, doing surf reps, all the basics of like kind of reconnaissance from there.

And once you make it through amphib phase, like you're done, you graduate after that.

How long is this course?

I think it's around three months.