After getting off the plane, people from Blackwater Company warmly greeted Wang Chaoyang and the others.
But a week of parachute training and a week of diving training were not as exciting as the first meal after arriving in the United States.
After the training, Wang Chaoyang and the others realized how boring the instructor Pete's statement about "the following training will be very, very boring" really was.
At six o'clock in the morning, Wang Chaoyang and others got up.
Before breakfast there was physical training, including a five-kilometer march carrying logs.
This kind of log is not the kind that can be carried by several people, but a log that can be carried by one person, weighing fifty kilograms.
Ordinarily, a log weighing fifty kilograms is not very heavy. Even a bag of domestic rice weighs seventy kilograms. The key is that you have to carry it alone and run five kilometers in full gear.
Wang Chaoyang's individual soldiers' equipment is still highly digitalized, and considering the future combat environment, the equipment is also very neat.
The biggest problem brought about by this is that the weight is also very heavy. The equipment including the backpack weighs nearly 60 kilograms for an individual soldier, let alone carrying such a log.
As for Wang Chaoyang and others, this kind of burden is only a combat burden, because the special forces are assault forces and may be attacked by the enemy at any time, so they must ensure combat at any time.
Originally, Wang Chaoyang and the others had a standard load of ninety kilograms, but because of the last operation in Russia, they had to reorganize the supplies and adjust the load after entering the safe point during the entire operation. There was still a large amount of supplies that could not be taken away before the final operation.
, wasted on safety, and troubled Andre to pack up those things.
After returning, "Evil Spirit" concluded that the burden was really unbearable.
So "Evil Spirit" recalculated the supplies needed by each group as a group, and tried to carry only the necessities, and shared the public supplies as much as possible. The rations also changed from the original self-heating rations that were relatively large in size.
Instead of carrying only compressed dry food and water bottles, a backpack-type soft water bag is used to carry it with a backpack.
After a series of improvements, the weight of more than 30 kilograms was finally lost. The weight of an individual soldier, including firearms, helmets, body armor, etc., was reduced to 60 kilograms.
The first time we carried the log while running, everyone almost couldn't hold on. It was too heavy.
For this reason, everyone felt deeply that they were lucky to have lost weight. Otherwise, the whole body would be equivalent to a fat man weighing 140 pounds on his back. What a waste?
After the morning run, there were three sets of push-ups and two sets of sit-ups for training.
After that it's breakfast time.
Carrying logs and running on the mountain, the special forces soldiers sang that song again.
"Assault! Special forces! Assault! Ghost! We are dormant shadows! We are the enemy's nightmare! Fighting is our language! Cut open the enemy's chest with a sharp blade! We will never retreat! We will never retreat! Ghost! Charge into battle!"
"The "Ghost" Song" was still so loud, and the young special forces soldiers ran with all their strength, heading in the direction of victory.
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Blackwater trains elite units, such as S.W.A.T. "Police Special Weapons and Tactics" team (SWAT team), GreenBeret U.S. Army "Green Berets" special forces, DeltaForce "Delta" Special Forces, SEAL (N**ySeals)
) "SEAL" commandos, USMC Marine Corps...
Naturally, the training methods are also very advanced and strict.
But it is accompanied by boredom.
Normal physical fitness and parachute basic training are nothing, boring repetition, repetition and repetition.
Continuous persistence can develop a habit, and continuous training will naturally allow soldiers to form correct responses, so that they will not make mistakes on the battlefield but make the most correct response.
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On the penultimate day of parachute training, I finally got to do the actual parachute jump.
Like all paratroopers, my first jump was with a round parachute.
After jumping in the morning, there will be intensive parafoil training in the afternoon. The next day will be a day of parafoil jumping.
The maneuverability of a parafoil is much better than that of a round paraglider. It is equivalent to an unpowered paraglider. It can glide a long distance with very little movement. If operated well, the parafoil can even directly drop soldiers into a one-meter-diameter paraglider.
Circle. Obviously, parafoils are of great significance to special forces who often perform infiltration missions. This is why Wang Chaoyang and the others want to learn parafoils directly. When there is not much time, a lot of time is wasted
It makes no sense on a round umbrella.
But the risks that come with it are much greater, so even in the paratroopers, only veterans are eligible to learn parafoil, and recruits cannot learn it to avoid danger.
Of course, in the special forces, only those who successfully complete three parachute fixed-point airdrops can obtain the special parachute badge. Although the parachute emblem pattern on this parachute badge is the same as that on the parachute badge of ordinary paratroopers.
, but the level is much different. Ordinary paratroopers only need to complete three round parachute airdrops to get the parachute badge.
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In the parachute folding room, the special forces soldiers were carefully folding their parachutes. This thing is for life-saving purposes, and there must be no mistakes.
Pete patrolled back and forth, watching these special forces from China folding their own umbrellas.
When it comes to parachuting, the special forces who have obtained the special parachute badge are of course not very worried about their parachute stacking skills, but those who are parachuting for the first time are more nervous and have to check every move two or three times.
Finally, after everyone folded their umbrellas, Peter carefully rechecked them one by one.
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"You're going skydiving tomorrow, are you scared?" Wang Chaoyang asked Lin Xue, who was lying on the bed next to him.
"Not scared, just a little nervous."
Even if the gringos are rich, they don’t sleep in bunk beds, they sleep in single berths.
"I'm a little nervous too."
Wang Chaoyang admitted it honestly.
"It's okay. If you really dare not jump tomorrow, I will kick you down from behind." Gao Fei said while lying on the other bed.
"What?"
"This kind of thing, you won't be afraid if you skip it once. I was nervous the first time because I didn't know what it would feel like to open an umbrella, what it would feel like to fall, and what it would feel like to land. Once you experience it once, you won't feel anything.
You won’t be nervous the second time you jump. Look, don’t those paratroopers just jump and have fun every day?”
Ye Qinghun cleared his throat and said.
"Then tell me how you feel."
Tao Yuan said.
"After you jumped out, the umbrella opened by itself, and you felt a hand pull you suddenly. Didn't you throw yourself towards the ground when you jumped out? When the umbrella opened, and you pulled your shoulder, you
Just standing in the air."
"Isn't this the feeling of being inertia? Isn't it the same as taking the elevator downstairs and suddenly stopping?"
Wang Chaoyang turned over and lay on the bed and said. This posture makes it easier to see the person on the bed opposite, and it is not so strenuous to speak.
The barracks of Blackwater Company are quite large, with a row of single beds placed against the walls on both sides. All the "Evil Spirits" sleep here.
"It feels much stronger than that." Ye Qinghun said.
"What if the umbrella doesn't open?"
Tao Yuan asked.
"Pull the backup umbrella!" **Long expressed disdain for Tao Yuan's idiotic question.
"What if the backup parachute doesn't open?"
"Damn, if this could happen, I would buy a lottery ticket right away and I'm guaranteed to win 500 million." Luo Fei said jokingly.
"How can this not happen?" Tao Yuan retorted.
"Yes, the probability of this is quite small, but if it does happen, I will give you a suggestion." Ye Qinghun said.
"What suggestions?" Tao Yuan asked.
"Open your hands and feet and make a big sign."
"Can this expand the contact surface with the air and thereby slow down?"
"This can make your death look better," Gao Fei said.
"Wahahahahaha!"
The crowd burst into enthusiastic laughter instantly.
"NMLGB! NMLGB!"
Tao Yuan cursed deep in his heart.
"You said that if both the main parachute and the backup parachute cannot be opened, wouldn't it be unthinkable to die?" Li Hui said thoughtfully.
"It's called luck and there are problems with folding umbrellas, but it's still imaginable. What's really unimaginable is that you can't open the main umbrella and try to pull the backup umbrella. As a result, the main umbrella and the backup umbrella pop out beautifully.
Then, the two parachutes were beautifully mixed together and neither could be deployed. So you fell to your death in the manure pit with both parachutes that were successfully activated."
Luo Fei said.
"Depend on!"
Everyone who had not skydived unanimously raised their middle fingers.
"Don't rely on me yet, this kind of thing has happened before." Gao Fei said.
"Is this...is this really possible?" **Long said in surprise.
"Yes, it turns out that an airborne soldier died like this, and he fell into the women's toilet of a school, which made the incident quite sensational." Gao Fei said.
"Why haven't we heard of it?"
"At that time you were still competing with many brothers and sisters."
"Uh... when you say this, are you planning to say that I was lucky enough not to be killed on the toilet paper?" The dragon was sweating like a waterfall.
"Yeah, the young man is quite smart, you all know that."
"Your sister!" **Long almost wanted to pick up the pillow and throw it at Gao Fei, but he knew that if he really smashed it, he would not be able to get the pillow back, and he would have to suffer from a stiff neck tomorrow morning.
"Okay, okay, go to bed early and get up early tomorrow." Lin Panpan said with a yawn.
"That's right, that's right, we've all gone to bed, and we'll be skydiving tomorrow morning." Ye Qinghun also said.
"Can we not tell you that we are going to skydive tomorrow morning? It sounds painful!" Tao Yuan said.
"Shut up!" the crowd shouted.
"..." Tao Yuan opened his mouth, but no words came out. He probably didn't dare to say it.
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The next day.
According to the arrangement, there was no physical training this morning. The members of the "Evil Spirit" gathered at the entrance of the restaurant on time at seven o'clock.
After breakfast, under the leadership of Peter, the group got into a car heading to the airport.
"Today we will conduct preliminary parachute training. In two hours, everyone will complete three round parachute parachutes." Pete said in the car.
Only then did the special forces understand why everyone was assigned to stack three umbrellas yesterday. It turned out that they had to jump three times in a row.
Peter then simply repeated the essentials of skydiving, and then a small airport appeared in front of everyone.
This airport was specially built by Blackwater Company for parachute training and only has the most basic conditions for taking off and landing aircraft.
At the airport, a small transport plane is already on standby.
"Everyone get off the car and gather at the edge of the plane!"
Before the car stopped, Pete couldn't wait to drive a group of people out of the car.
From Wang Peng, everyone has already known about Pete. This guy is very serious, strict, and cold-blooded during training. But in private, this guy is quite easy-going.
In addition, through such a period of contact, everyone gradually understood that Peter was indeed such a person, so they did not have any big complaints.
As for the training, it is better to be stricter. And now it is much better than the "recruit training" of the special forces. In the "recruit training" of the special forces, the rookies have no dignity at all. The instructors just push the rookies to death.
Train the newbies.
Without this step, there would be no "shadow" brigade with extremely powerful combat capabilities.