Boarding ships is ancient, but today's challenges are not. Modern sailors train for perilous missions beyond their ancestors' experience: enforcing embargoes, confronting missile-armed pirates, and catching smugglers. It is intensely dangerous work. We visit elite global training facilities to see what it truly takes to join a modern Naval Boarding Party.
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Combat Forces - Snipers
Silent, covert, deadly. Snipers are a commander's ultimate secret weapon and the battlefield's long-range killers. We go inside elite sniper schools to witness their intense training. Discover their advanced weaponry and the unique field craft that makes them so effective.
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Combat Forces - Army Combatives
At the Army Combatives School in Fort Benning, soldiers confront their greatest fear: hand-to-hand combat. They learn to fight for survival, not sport. The skills taught here go beyond the UFC. These are the brutal, unforgiving skills that can kill.
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Combat Forces - First Ten Combat Miss...
In Vietnam, the USAF found 90% of pilot losses happened in their first 10 missions. To counter this, they created a specialized training program replicating those critical initial combat missions. The results were dramatic, drastically increasing survival rates.
