Chapter 595 Training Day (Part 2)
The way for rough guys to build relationships is so simple. When Jack and several bruised and bruised team members shared cold beers, they naturally chatted about the days when they started eating food. The unexpected wealth obtained from the demons brought changes to their lives.
Although SEAL Team Six is a T1-level special forces force, it can be called the elite of the elite, but their income level is actually not high. Take Jason, the first-level master sergeant, as an example. Adding all the messy allowances and bonuses, it only amounts to just over a hundred thousand dollars a year.
Of course not to mention the team members under him, like Clay, who has just shaken off his rookie status, and his annual income is about the same as Jack when he left the LAPD two years ago.
The original gold has long been cashed in carefully. Some of it was used to repay the housing loan, and some was deposited into the children's education fund.
To be honest, listening to these guys talking about these trivial matters, Jack really felt that these soldiers were just ordinary people, not cold-blooded killing machines.
As Jason said before, Jack's training subjects have just begun. After confirming through various trainings that he can adapt well to the underwater environment, the seals began to teach him how to use a respirator underwater. .
Underwater rebreathers are generally divided into two types, open cycle underwater rebreathers and closed rebreathers. The exhaled gas of the former will be discharged into the water, forming the kind of puffing bubbles. Can be used for deeper underwater operations.
The latter does not release bubbles, and the exhaled gas will be collected back into the air tank. However, the diving depth of closed respirators usually does not exceed 10 meters. It is only suitable for covertly approaching targets, but is not suitable for Carry out underwater operations.
In addition, there are underwater navigation, how to use sign language to communicate underwater, and a lot of boring theoretical lessons.
At the same time, Jack also needs to learn blasting, both land combat blasting and underwater blasting, and is interspersed with training on the use and maintenance of various light weapons.
Time passed quickly. A month passed. Jason, who had been busy running between taking care of his seriously injured wife and assigning a training plan to Jack, was shocked to find that his plan book was almost torn up.
Real seal training is actually much more cruel than what Jack has experienced. What about swimming in full gear in water less than 15 degrees Celsius? A group of several people carrying a rubber boat and rushing towards the waves. After paddling a few miles to achieve a certain goal, return and carry the dinghy back to the starting point.
There are also long-distance running training with the whole body covered in sand, enduring the severe pain of the damaged skin coming into contact with the sea water, risking infection or even ulceration of the crotch, crawling on the beach beaten by the waves, blowing the cold sea breeze Not moving.
There is also the even more terrifying Hell Week, a total of five days, four meals a day, training and training with no rest time. During these five days, the total sleep time is less than 6 hours.
Jack didn't enjoy these terrible experiences, and of course there was no need for it. After all, Jason originally just wanted Jack to keep up with the rhythm of his team and not to lag behind in combat.
But soon this kid proved himself with actual actions. Not only was his physical fitness superior to everyone else, but shooting, fighting, and CQB were all on par with his own team members.
Although overall, Jack is still far from being a real special operations team member, but by teaching a skill like this, he can quickly get started in a few days and quickly become proficient in and Their similar level of learning ability is really surprising.
Jason was surprised to find that in just one month of training, Jack had already perfectly achieved his original expectations. There are still two months left, and in addition to continuing to let him participate in CQB drills to hone himself Due to the tacit understanding between the team, he could no longer think of any new training plans.
Jason had a feeling that even if it took 8-9 months for Jack to undergo a full set of SEAL training, he would eventually stand out and become the kind of top rookie that each team was competing for.
Fortunately, someone who was eager to learn quickly made a request that made Jason feel embarrassed and relieved. It was not that he really wanted to receive full special operations training, but that he wanted to learn skydiving and airplane driving.
Jack has gained a little this month. Not only has he learned professional diving skills, but he has also become proficient in driving small boats. Therefore, he is no longer satisfied with amphibious special operations, but will His eyes were turned to the sky.
As a senior sergeant major, Jason still has some energy. Of course, this may also have something to do with Jack's call to Rosie. After signing a series of life-and-death agreements, Jack was sent on a plane. Of course, he wasn't just stuffed with an parachute bag and dropped from the sky. Instead, he went to the Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Basic skydiving training.
It only took Jack three days to start from the basic high jumping platform, learn landing protection postures, understand theoretical knowledge, fold parachute bags, and finally climb to the high paratrooper training tower. .
As a pretender who can use the heroic landing posture when jumping from a height of three to four meters, the paratrooper training tower with a height of tens of meters is obviously not enough to scare him.
A week later, he jumped out of a small propeller plane and completed the first "Sir, we have both feet on the ground!" (Hell's paratroopers are eternal gods!!!) for the first time in his life.
However, this was just the beginning. After several simple skydiving experiences, for two whole weeks, in addition to basic physical training, he spent most of his time in the wind tunnel for skydiving training, learning how to Adapt to the airflow and control your posture in the air.
After overcoming psychological barriers, ordinary skydiving is actually not too difficult except for some accidental risks. It has even become a sport that can be participated by 70 or 80-year-old women.
After all, the automatic parachute opening device is very mature. Just learn to use reasonable postures to land in different terrains. If it doesn't work, you can still use it with an expert to perform a tandem jump.
For Jack, simply experiencing parachuting or improving his skills to the level of an ordinary airborne soldier obviously does not meet his expectations. After all, in the country he is in now, it is nothing more than a matter of spending some money.
Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge has heard of HAHO (high jump, high open) and HALO (high jump, low open), which are the most common and dangerous in special operations operations.
The height of ordinary skydiving usually does not exceed 3,000 meters. You can jump directly wearing a shirt and shorts, as long as you don’t forget to carry a parachute.
These two methods of skydiving are high-altitude skydiving (HighAltitude) that is different from conventional skydiving. Depending on the mission requirements, the height is usually between 6,000 meters and 10,000 meters.
What is different from a certain chicken game is that when a person is really at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters above sea level, he will face three problems, namely hypoxia, hypothermia and decompression sickness.
The first two are well understood, but few people know about high-altitude decompression sickness. This is the same principle as decompression sickness caused by a sudden and rapid ascent in deep-sea diving. The dissolved nitrogen in the blood turns into bubbles again under low pressure. Blockage of blood vessels can lead to death in severe cases.
Therefore, in many film and television works, those who open the hatch and jump directly from an altitude of 10,000 meters are superheroes. Serious people sit in the transport plane honestly, just like Jack now, wearing cold weather clothes. Suit and wear an oxygen mask for pre-drainage of nitrogen.
After breathing pure oxygen for 75 minutes, as the altitude climbed, the air pressure in the cabin became lower and lower, and then everyone began to fart uncontrollably, and the smell in the cabin became worse and worse. Get weird.
Fortunately, no one can hear it now. On the communication channel, the SEALs are making vulgar jokes to each other, laughing and joking as if they are about to participate in an ordinary outing.
As the sound of the motor came, the rear cabin door of the C130 slowly opened, forming a slope. The sound of the roaring wind almost covered up the roar of the aircraft's engine.
The early morning sunlight shone into the cabin through the thin atmosphere. Jack's adrenaline began to secrete slowly, and his whole body began to become nervous involuntarily.
I didn’t skydive, but I checked a lot of information. Even though my eyes were full of stars, I also tried my best to make it feel real to everyone.
PS, Master Chief is a real man!
(End of this chapter)