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** The Marines also lay claim to Force Recon (phasing out) and MARSOC as their elite level badasses.
* The US Navy SEALs have a period of intense, brutal training called "Hell Week" that trainees must endure before <s>becoming full fledged SEALs</s> they are allowed to begin the second third of SEAL training.
** One exercise in SEAL training involves being thrown into a swimming pool with your hands tied behind your back and without your breathing gear. You are expected to make it back to the surface anyway.
** Some of the exercises done to trainees during SERE school would be considered violations of the Geneva Conventions if done to enemy prisoners. Specifically, the torture resistance exercises. They operate on the basis that its not really practical to simulate torture without diluting the training value... so they use non-simulated, genuine torture. While they obviously avoid methods that cause permanent physical or mental damage (after all, you need the student still in fighting shape and reasonably sane at the end), or the ones involving sexual assault (because there's just no way anyone will ever sign a permission slip for that one), that still leaves a tremendous amount of wiggle room in which to be ''really really horrible''.
*** Which is somewhat understandable, since not everyone who might take them prisoner is going to respect the Geneva Convention. Especially since many of the missions rely on the ability to plausibly claim that the people involved are not combatants from your country.
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