Day Eight and no formation until 0600. Kyle felt like he’d been lazy and slept in. He did a rough head count. From the first day of a hundred-and-four candidates, they were down by at least twenty-five.
Several hadn’t made it through the Day One PT test, which hadn’t been that hard. The only unusual part of the physical training test had been the amount of it. Most of these guys had been in advanced branches of the military—Special Forces, Special Ops, 82nd Airborne. How could these guys not have been prepared for a round of hard-core PT?
Sergeant Carla was one of only three regular Army. All three of them were still in. A grunt had to be tough to think they could jump straight from Army to Delta without spending a couple tours in Rangers or Green Berets first.
He’d won his first-day be
