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The Navy SEALs have an elaborate combat town training facility on the island, and the Third Phase of Navy SEALs BUD/S training is conducted here. Not only is such terrain challenging for the SEAL's cloak and dagger missions, but it is also similar to what they would find over in the arid climates of the Middle East where vegetation is sparse.

There is a driving range, but you have to shag your own balls. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. MOUT, or Military Operations in Urban Terrain, has been the central focus of US ground forces for the last decade. Overall, it would appear that the SEAL's own isolated and dedicated MOUT facility is virtually the perfect place for America's super-warriors to secretly cut their teeth on direct action, reconnaissance and snatch-and-grab urban combat scenarios. It may seem odd that the US military and its private contractors have now become master builders of towns where nobody lives, but the SEALs, with their highly challenging mission sets, have always found such full scale replicas of particular targets beneficial, as have other counter-terror units from around the globe. Shortly after the aforementioned student had his leg unceremoniously broken by the waves, yours truly took his revenge on the surf zone. In the past, there has been videos on the net of America's elite special forces units, namely the US Navy SEALs, training at MOUT sites on Army and Marine bases around the US. It is also a known SEAL training enclave. This is a dangerous road for America to travel down as you can have the most expensive weapons available, $150M F-35s, the latest man portable UAVs, top-of-the-line night vision goggles, and the best swimmer delivery vehicles money can buy, but if you have no money to train with them regularly, or the budgeted training scenarios lack cutting edge threats and realism, the tactical edge that they offer will become highly degraded. Then, we were merrily marched down to the beach and sent on a night swim around part of the Island, near the seal hatchery.

Only one carrier gets cell reception and there is only wifi in one building.

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As it turned out, the instructors sat us down, turned off the lights, and fired up “Jaws.”  We watched for about 5 minutes, saw some humans get devoured by a shark, were told that San Clemente was the home of a seal hatchery, and were further informed that great white sharks liked to feed on baby seals around the Island. These training events happen at MOUT facilities scattered around the US and overseas, where mock cities and villages, often built out of cinder blocks and shipping containers, simulate what troops may encounter on upcoming deployments. The sprawling concrete facility, seen above while under early construction, is said to feature a six-story hotel like structure, a city hall, central square, police station complete with a jail, a bazaar like market, large embassy, hotel, school, church/mosque, motor-pool and all the other features of a major town in a third world country. At San Clemente, you have to do physical training (PT) evolutions to eat. The training and testing extends offshore in the waters around the island, with amphibious, naval and submarine exercises common, and a range that extends far out into the Pacific useful for cruise missile testing, and perhaps some Top Secret stuff as well. In order to build and maintain such an elite fighting force the US Navy must provide special assets to the SEALs so that they can train as they fight and fight as they train, and there are few battlefields more unforgiving or fraught with danger than those where urban warfare is the name of the game. The excrement in question made its way easily from my pant leg to the water, and rarely have I felt such relief as I did in that split second.

San Clemente Island is treeless, except for one small patch of trees that is jokingly known as the San Clemente National Forest.

(U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl.

The Third phase of training during the BUDs course develops in San Clamente Island and its called Combat Condition Course. Photos via US Navy/DoD, Contractors including IE Pacific, Vasquez Marshall Architects. There's no pool, but if you let the police know (and you don't mind sharks) you can swim from the pier. Over 700 hours of military entertainment and video content, 12 free e-books, breaking news from the front lines and exclusive interviews with the people in charge.
Students are forced into kamikaze foot races. The obstacle course at San Clemente was in many ways harder than the one back at the BUD/S compound in Coronado. San Clemente Island is a truly batshit crazy place. For another, at one point, you have to complete the obstacle course amidst the haze of a tear gas (CS) cloud. San Clemente Island is the southernmost of California’s Channel Islands. It is a poorly kept secret on San Clemente Island that the chow hall is never locked, and leftover food is kept on the counters in the event that instructors (or students) get hungry in the middle of the night. (Military Network photo), The Navy SEALs combat town training facility located on the northern tip of San Clemente Island. ), (Photos by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eddie Harrison). For one thing, you did it in all your combat loadout gear, instead of in just boots and pants.

Over the last decade or so, the US Navy SEALs have risen in prominence within America's collective consciousness beyond their well established Hollywood presence. After work, you can hang out in the concrete barracks known as the "cell block" or hang out at the island's one bar, The Salty Crab. Grace Kindred), An MH-60R Seahawk helicopter conducts a hoist exercise with a Peruvian Navy submarine off the coast of San Clemente Island in November 2019. I, for one, am glad I survived it, with (most of) my sanity intact. Students are tear gassed on the O-course. Furthermore, these existing facilities were already in high demand as continuous deployments of America's conventional land forces resulted in the need for constant workups before units could be rotated in and out of both theaters.


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