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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 4639867, member: 3850"] Yeah...Parris Island was a mild weeding of the weak...Then, as a Force Recon applicant..I had to get through endurance tests...once accepted, the opportunities to wash out were plenty. At the Coronado Seal/UDT base, the instructors worked you while cold, sleep deprived, and exhausted. It was a matter of mental toughness to not join the washouts...but my team made it through the underwater beach recon school....crimping a cap on a fuse while shaky cold and dead tired helped you focus...jump school was a vacation in comparison. I did not learn a thing useful in civilian life, demolition, weapons, etc...but the discipline and training of will did influence my life and sucess. I once was at a discussion with Fortune 500 execs and they were talking about the power that such a position wields...My thought? A 21 year old NCO had more power..... the power to, with a wave of his hand, send a squad up into murderous machine gun fire...if he waved that hand, they went without question. It was that way on Tarawa, Pelieu, Okinawa, etc....discipline and mental toughness. [/QUOTE]