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Mr. Leavey describes the intense drills and exercise in training and how strong friendships helped ease the pain.
Transcription
My training in Borden took ten months and the failure rate was very high. We started off with about 360 candidates and we ended up with about 50, so the failure rate was pretty high. It was hard physically. It was hard mentally because the drill sergeants were always in your face, always yelling at you, screaming at you, not unlike the drill sergeants that you see in the movies, you know, Forrest Gump and movies like that, so it was hard physically and mentally for an
18 year old who had never really been disciplined severely like we were, but we bonded together. We became brothers because of the shared suffering, we were all being yelled at, we were all being hollered at and we were all on ten mile runs with full equipment. We all had blisters on our feet. We were all cold, we were all wet, but we were cold, wet, sore together so we had a bond. Really, I still remember the guys from 42 years ago and we still stay in touch so it was, you know, a good experience.