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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[System Shock]] 2'', which is [[Cyberpunk]] and therefore quite [[Justified Trope|justified]], has one option in the player's character creation being a survival course with a "21.2% mortality rate". This actually seems quite low, considering it takes place on [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Io_%28moon%~~29#Volcanism Io, the moon with 400 volcanoes].

* ''[[System Shock]] 2'', which is [[Cyberpunk]] and therefore quite [[Justified Trope|justified]], has one option in the player's character creation being a survival course with a "21.2% mortality rate". This actually seems quite low, considering it takes place on [[wikipedia:Io chr(28)moonchr(29)#Volcanism|Io, the moon with 400 volcanoes]].

* Surprisingly, GDI's (the good guys') commando program in ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Tiberium Wars'', with a 22% fatality rate among the recruits and a 95% failure rate among the survivors.

** To make matters even more ridiculous, the Brotherhood of Nod's commando program is ''even worse.''

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** USAF Pararescue Training. They are the US military's Combat Search and Rescue specialists, and their pipeline is known as "Superman School".

** Should also mention the USAF's Special Operations Weather Technicians. All three Air Force Special Tactics operators are well-respected in the military community as badasses. Before they even begin their job training, ALL Special Tactics hopefuls complete BMT, then a six week Indoctrination course. Called "Indoc" it is the most grueling ordeal most trainees have ever been through--including such novel practices as performing calisthenics whie wearing diving masks. Filled with water. Indoc washes out a great deal of candidates due to the harsh training. And then it gets worse.

* The British SAS are generally considered extremely tough also. The final stage of their 4-week Selection training is known as "Endurance", a forty mile march across the [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Brecon_Beacons~~ Brecon Beacons], completed in less than twenty hours carrying more than fifty-five pounds of weight, plus water, food and rifle. They then get to proceed to the six weeks in the Malaysian jungle. Then the survival training, then the interrogation training...and after all that, they are effectively on probation for a year, with many being returned to their parent unit in that time as unsuitable.

* The British SAS are generally considered extremely tough also. The final stage of their 4-week Selection training is known as "Endurance", a forty mile march across the [[wikipedia:Brecon Beacons|Brecon Beacons]], completed in less than twenty hours carrying more than fifty-five pounds of weight, plus water, food and rifle. They then get to proceed to the six weeks in the Malaysian jungle. Then the survival training, then the interrogation training...and after all that, they are effectively on probation for a year, with many being returned to their parent unit in that time as unsuitable.

** The sister unit of the SAS, The SASR, better known as the Australian SAS, has similar methods. To date, more people have died in training for the SASR than they have for combat. Admittedly this includes 15 people dying in a helicoptor crash, but it still stands.

** The British army has a nasty reputation for killing more people off via "disciplinary" measures ("beasting", where you're made to do the exercises again.. and again.. and again, this time in NBC gear) than in the actual functional part of the training, though. Last year one recruit died this way over dropping a chocolate wrapper; another for shouting in the officers' mess. Apparently they have yet to get rid of the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]].