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* NORFORCE, the force responsible for defending the north of Australia includes in their training, dumping potential recruits into the rainforests in small groups equipped with knives and not much else to survive of what they can find. After a little while of this, and without giving them food or rest, they have whatever they've scavenged taken away, are lectured on important things they need to know, put into new groups, and they are dumped somewhere else. This happens two or there times. Apparently, the course is so popular, there's a several year waiting list.
** Not unknown for this kind of unit and not just for the sake of pride but also because of [[Genre Savvy]]. Few armies consider those kind of units as [[We Have Reserves|reserves]]
** Also, given the terrain NORFORCE operates in they ''need'' these skills in order to have a reasonable chance of surviving their job. Northern Australia is so awful that the rest of Australia noticed.
* Brazilian's BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is well known for their rigorous training, acting mostly on urban warfare. There is a movie focused on the group, [[The Elite Squad|"The Elite Squad"]], famous for its shock value. Their logo is a skull pierced by a knife and two guns on the background; their main vehicle is called "big skull".
** One Brazilian group, the Satere-Mawe, train to be warriors by intentionally stinging themselves by Bullet Ants. Bullet ants have the ''highest'' ranking on the Schmidt pain index, which he described as "Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel." It lasts ''almost 24 hours.'' They do it '''''20 times'''''.
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