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Navy SEALS - BUDS Class 234

Navy SEALS - BUDS Class 234 (2000)

October. 19,2000

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Navy SEALS - BUDS Class 234

A Six Hour Series for The Discovery Channel that follows 80 candidates of Class 234 and their efforts to become US NAVY SEALS. You WILL feel the pain after watching the physical and mental challenges these candidates are faced with.

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Navy SEALS - BUDS Class 234

2000

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2000

6 Episode

Episode 1 - Part 1 - Welcome to BUDS

October. 19,2000

Meet the 83 men of Class 234 who have been accepted into BUDS, the training program that forms the Navy SEALs, one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. Watch as they tackle Phase One, a physically grueling course designed to weed out all but the toughest and most dedicated. This is only day one of 26 weeks of unimaginable physical and emotional strain. Most will quit within the first weeks.

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Episode 2 - Part 2 - It Pays to Be a Winner

October. 26,2000

Phase One continues...the men are determined to survive the physically and mentally rigorous program and remain injury free. New students, injured in previous classes, are added to Class 234. With Hellweek looming, they learn basic lessons of survival, hoping to be one of the few to become a Navy SEAL. By the end of week one, half the class is gone.

Episode 3 - Part 3 - Two Weeks and a Long Day

November. 02,2000

By the second week of BUDS training, many of the students have already dropped out. The remaining men still have 24 weeks of hardship. Students who are failing physically are put before the review boards where instructors will decide if they are dropped for lack of performance or rolled to the next class for medical leave. Each week they must improve, they must run faster and swim farther. Individuals do not survive, teammates do. Hellweek, the harshest part of training, is still on the horizon.

Episode 4 - Part 4 - Hell Week

November. 09,2000

For 24 hours a day, six days in a row, students are put through a demanding set of obstacles designed to test their commitment to becoming SEALs. Cold, wet, hungry and sleep-deprived, the men struggle to prove their resolve as each test is followed by a more difficult one, pushing the psychological limits of even the toughest competitors. Hellweek is the ultimate eliminator – ending with only 19 contenders.

Episode 5 - Part 5 - The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday

November. 16,2000

Underwater testing begins in both the ocean and pool in what may be the most difficult test of all. The men are immersed with hands and feet tied and competing at underwater swimming, overcoming their panic and fear. They undergo advanced scuba and re-breather training and the SEAL instructors weed out those who just can't make the grade.

Episode 6 - Part 6 - The Home Stretch

November. 23,2000

The men who've made it this far persevere -but still a few are pushed past the limits of their endurance. Witness the last months, weeks, days and minutes – discover which of these courageous souls graduate and become a U.S.