Sunday, August 8, 2010

This is hell.



As I post this, 1330H Coronado time, Cameron is sitting in a classroom with 90 other BUD/S trainees waiting on a pizza delivery. His group started in June with 280. They will call family and friends, nap, eat, and contemplate what the next 5.5 days will bring them. He anticipates they will break out around 9PM, it might be sooner or later, they don't really know. But the break out starts with the mass confusion shown at the beginning of the video. He says that the purpose is full disorientation. Once the mayhem starts they will go non-stop, 64 "evolutions" of torture, with only 3 hours of sleep before they finish Friday at noon. The sleep is part of the torture, as it provides no benefit, just another opportunity to "DOR", or drop on request. Barring an injury or an illness (pneumonia is common), Cameron will complete the process, he did it once before, 3 years ago. He has a slight cough (tracheitis I presume) and a persistent granulomatous lesion on his left heel. But he says he feels good, and just wants to get it on.
We fly out to Coronado Thursday and hope to see them in some phase of the training, probably watching them carrying their little boats on head on the Strand Hwy.

At age 29 and at 5 ft, 7, he is the oldest and shortest in class.

God speed Cameron. Kick ass.

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