[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kendoboy thats half the hike and thats just the begining you do it none stop finish in one day or fail then you swim about 5 miles with gear then you have to pass a rigorous obstecoule course with a gun hit every target and thats just to be accepted. after that its a -blam!- load of more pain torture and misury if i was built like that i would do it these people that go in are monsters they can kill you in quite a few diffrent ways without a gun even if you have one [/quote] Dude, that ain't the half of it. The D-boys are INSANE. (All this stuff I know, by the way, is declassified and recent as of, like, 1980. It was found in the book [i]Inside Delta Force[/i] by Eric L. Haney...it's a great read) After the grueling hike, around 10-15 of the average starting class of 100-120 are left. They are the ones who are actually gonna make it into the Delta Force. The next thing they start on is the marksmanship part of the training. Instead of using the sights on their guns, which takes precious milleseconds, and every bit of time helps when you're in a close-quarters fight, they use "instinctive aiming," where they basically think about hitting something and then hope their gun hits it. They get so good at it that they can basically shoot something at the mere thought of it--without really aiming! This is an extremely crucial and handy skill, especially for taking down an airplane. The snipers (actually, basically the whole force in general) has so much mental control that they are capable of some amazing things. For example, they can warm specific parts of the body, such as a trigger finger, with their own willpower. They can enter a state of sleep-like awareness, where their minds basically become cleared and relaxed, yet observant at the same time. This enables them to stay on guard for prolonged periods of time, while not getting bored and also, basically "sleeping." They don't sleep, but because their mentally relaxed, they don't get tired. They can consciously control their heartbeat, as well as their aim. Then, they learn how to assault just about any type of assault-able thing imaginable. Then, they learn how to be CIA-like agents, capable of going undercover and doing intelligence drops (this is why the Delta Force is so top-secret and many of the pictures of active duty D-boys are blanked out). This is just some of the stuff that I can remember off the top of my head. [Edited on 11/23/2004 10:35:23 PM]