back in the book segment tonight the US government is offering bonuses of up to
a hundred and fifty thousand bucks for special operation troops who agree to
stay in the military for an extended period of time
those bonuses are the largest ever paid to enlisted troops some receiving those
bonuses will be Navy SEALs the elite special force we're now fighting
terrorism not only on the sea but just about everywhere
the seals also are on a recruitment track and joining us from San Diego
chief petty officer Chris Sajnog who's been a seal for 10 years all right I
want to be in the seals so I'll get down there to San Diego to Coronado where you
guys are based I get the little Trident and what do I have to do first day I'm
in there what do I do well bill you don't start off with the
Trident the Trident has to be earned but you're going to join up with the
class and you're going to do everything for six months with that class to become
a seal so you're going to be doing physical evolutions every day you're
also going to be doing some classroom work you know but this classroom they're
not typical classrooms you're going to be learning seal skills and tactics in
those classrooms and you're also going to have to be running back and forth to
chow you know three meals a day and a lot of people don't take that into
account that's a lot of physical activity that they really need to be
ready for if they want to make it through training all right so you better
show up in shape is what you're telling me here chief correct exactly that's one
of the biggest problems we've had in the past is people not knowing what to
expect when they show up to training and that's what we're trying to do is get
that word out and let people know what type of shape you need to be in what to
expect so we can have you know aside of everybody every ten Americans who want
to be Navy SEALs out of every ten how many make it uh ten people wanting to go
to training probably one of them will actually become a seal all right so what
an attendant is right one out of ten now I'm going to ask you a series of
questions huh how much sleep am I going to get a night in Navy SEAL training how
much sleep am I going to get well bill it's going to vary we have different
days where sometimes you're going to do night evolutions some days you're going
to have to wake up earlier than others but we understand that to train people
as hard as we do you need to get sleep but then there's different times like
how weak where you're going to get very little sleep throughout the night and
you have to be prepared and be organized and that's part of the thing we teach is
is getting people to that point where they can organize themselves so they can
get the sleep they need how much pain is there going to be in the training
physical pain well there's going to be a lot of challenges that's one of the
things with seal training we're never going to make training any easier we're
always going to keep the standards the way we have them so every day is a
challenge we have a saying in training it's the only easy day was yesterday and
every day is going to be a challenge for these guys and even for the star
athletes showing up to training it's going to be hard for them everyone is
going to be challenged and pushed past their limits so we can find out if they
have what it takes to be one of the Navy SEALs now mentally is just as important
as physically in the seals the discipline aspect how do you teach that
well mentally what we do like I said we have the classroom things that we have
to teach and we test guys before they come in they have to take what's called
the ASVAB test and you have to have a certain level of mental skill to be able
to join the seals but the main thing you need to make it through training is the
desire to make it through training and that's something we can't teach we can
get a guy to run we can get them to swim but we can't give that guy the desire to
finish training and if you want to make it through training you have to start
knowing you're going to make it through training it's not something you just try
out and say you know I'll give it a shot and see if I can make it through all
right so you have to be no matter what you throw at these guys they have to be
able to take it and no matter how hard it is and running miles and miles
swimming miles and miles holding your breath all that you just have to keep
going exactly it's personal errands and that's
what it takes to be a Navy SEAL perhaps the most