Every step of the path Taiwanese men walk to become Marines is hard, but none is quite like the Road to Heaven. Conducted during the tenth and final week of their training at Kaohsiung military base, the Road is a grueling crawl along a pathway of jagged stones and coral. The men aren’t allowed to wear anything but shorts as they tackle the belly-down crawl, and instructors stop them and force them to do calisthenics in the middle. By the end, their bodies are bloody, tattered messes, but if the recruits don’t perform to the Marine standard they’re forced to do the whole thing over again.
Commando Hubert
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The Most Brutal Military Training Regimens
The French don’t have the world’s most fearsome reputation, but to become a frogman in the elite Commando Hubert division requires training that would destroy an ordinary man. No more than a dozen of the military’s best divers are allowed into the program, which lasts 27 weeks. The meat of the training comes in the second phase, in which the recruits are required to plan and execute simulated raids on ships, swimming in under the cover of darkness, boarding and planting fake explosives without being caught. By the end of it, recruits are expected to be as comfortable in the water as they are on land. One mistake at any point can lead to instant expulsion from the program.
Storm Corps
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Of course North Korea would push their soldiers to the limits of human endurance. What else is there to do there? What the Hermit Kingdom lacks in technological advancement they make up for in sheer insanity. Storm Corps soldiers wake up at 5 in the morning, walk out to a tree wrapped with heavy ropes and punch it 5,000 times. They then punch ragged tin cans and piles of salt to turn their fists into clubbing wads of scar tissue. The North Korean army wants every Storm Corpsman to be able to defeat 10 armed men single-handed.
Kaibiles
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To even be considered for membership in Guatemala’s elite Kaibiles is an honor – only 64 people are entered into the program two times a year, and the graduating class has never been larger than 10. Training is a brutal, intense two months designed to break down the recruit physically and mentally. It’s hard to decide what’s worse – on the physical side, they have to crawl naked through thorns and perform field surgery on themselves. One test referred to as “The Inferno” requires them to spend two full days neck-deep in water without sleeping. On the mental side, each prospect must take care of a puppy for the two months of training and then kill it and eat it to teach themselves that the ultimate loyalty on the battlefield is survival.
Belarus Special Forces
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Known by some as “Europe’s last dictatorship,” Belarus has maintained the Iron Curtain discipline that terrified us during the Cold War. Their elite Special Forces soldiers go through some of the most intense training anywhere on the globe. Endurance obstacle courses are a big deal, with recruits made to run over burning tires while live ammunition is fired off below them, as well as hand-to-hand combat drills in clouds of choking smoke. During the Orthodox holiday of Maslenitsa, the Special Forces demonstrate their skills by breaking burning concrete blocks with their heads.
Delta Force
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To join the U.S. military’s only official counter-terrorism unit, you have to prove that you’re the best of the best with a battery of intense physical tests. Potential Delta Force members need to complete two timed marches, one of 18 miles at night while carrying a 35 pound pack, and then another 40 miles over steep, jagged rocks with a 45 pound sack. Once you’re through that, the real training begins. The six month Operators Training Course is one of the most secretive programs in the military, including marksmanship, demolitions, and sniper drills involving live ammo and fellow recruits as “hostages.”
Shayetet 13
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Israel takes their military very seriously, with every non-Arab citizen required to serve for at least two years. There are many levels of service, though, with some of the most devout conscripts heading straight for Shayetet 13, the Navy unit that serves as one of the military’s primary special ops forces. The training regimen to join takes 20 months, accepting only the most elite recruits. Most recruits wash out in the first four days of camp, where they’re given a battery of brutal mental and physical tests. The survivors are molded into terrifyingly efficient soldiers with extensive hand-to-hand training in the martial art of krav maga. Those that graduate are known as the “silent men” for their incredible stealth, and much of their training involves being put in dangerous and scary situations without making a sound.
Spetsnaz
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Back to the cold and brutal winters of Eastern Europe for the insane pain training that’s required of soldiers in the Spetsnaz, the Russian special forces group known as some of the most fearsome soldiers on Earth. Knowing how to deal out pain is important in wartime, but it’s just as important to be able to take it. The Spetsnaz undergo disturbing “pain management” drills where they swim through pools lined with barbed wire, get tied to chairs and beaten with baseball bats, and are dragged behind trucks. The point of this is to make it so they can ignore injuries in combat and strike back hard.
Special Forces Brigade
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South Africa’s elite military unit is considered to have the most arduous training and selection process in the world. After pre-screening, prospects are put through a selection test where they are given no food or sleep for the duration. The tests are designed to push soldiers past their physical limits, meaning that only strength of will is keeping them going. A strict veil of secrecy hangs over this process, but former members recall stories of bush marches that lasted weeks, with meals doled out every five days. Recruits wou
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