Would YOU make the cut for FOXHOUND?

[AlexMax]

Here is an interesting description of FOXHOUND that I shamelessly stole from the Plot Summary FAQ of MGS at Gamefags, who in turn stole it from the MG2:SS manual.

FOX HOUND is a specially formed special forces unit inside NATO. Its duty
is, under non-official combat status, to sneak deep into enemy borders where no
national intelligence can enter, and collect information about enemy military
forces.

All members of FOX HOUND have mastered various skytrooper techniques and are
thoroughly acquainted with secret invasion techniques from under and over
water, so they can sneak by any kind of breaching path.

Moreover, they have masteries and knowledge of survival over extended length in
bushes, jungles and desert and maintain skills in acute tailing, detonating
operation, wireless communication, seizing and reusing enemy weapons,
collecting information, various martial arts, emergency medical operations,
linguistic and hi-techs or essentially anything required for being as a hi-tech
special squad.

FOX HOUND members are never chosen as civilians, but are chosen out of recruits
and self-nominees from various special force members.

In the selection proceedure the aspirants initially receive exams in 3 aspects
- physical, psychological and intelligence;

Physical Exam

*. Basic physical ability
---->Short-range run
---->Uninterrupted 80 push-ups
---->Uninterrupted 100 situps
---->50 meters free swimming
*. Underwater diving ability
*. Lone wilderness march (carry a backpack of 30kg, and conquer
64 km of length in 15 hours)

Psychological Exam

*. Mental recovery
*. Concentration
*. Endurance
*. Self-control
*. ESP expectancy score
*. Marksman ability
*. Recognizing and making decision on emergency environment

Intelligence Exam

*. Language
*. Non-domestic geology
*. World situation
*. Hi-tech technologies
*. Medical in outdoors
*. Detonation operation
*. Concealed communication
*. Foreign weaponry
*. Drills

Those who passed the selection course have to take the following
professional training courses:

*. Battlefield survival test (14 weeks)
*. Shooting practice (very high standard is required; 100% to
the target 548 meters away, 95% to the target 914 meters away)
*. Patrol
*. Conquering mountain terrain
*. Martial arts / Hand-to-Hand combat
*. Border crossing
*. Guerilla combat
*. Land navigation
*. Map reading
*. Escape - avoiding dangers
*. Field combat medicine (10 weeks)
*. Rebelling ranger practice
*. Weapons
*. Nautical control and navigation
*. Diving, underwater sneaking
*. Canoe
*. Parachute skydiving practice (4 weeks)
*. Assault paratroopers skydiving practice: H-A-L-O and H-A-H-O
*. 11 normal skydiving exercises, 15 in full gear, 2 in
nighttime, 2 mass-tactical strategic diving.
*. Intelligence operation
*. Language and customs of destination country (4 weeks)
*. Sneaking technique
*. Improved flammable operation
*. Utilizing hi-tech arms
*. Communication (16 weeks)


So...would you make the cut? ^_~

[Dracula]

Hell yeah! Also note, the VR missions. Those are cool, and do training for most of those exercises.

[MottZilla]

Those little requirements are insanely stupid.

[AtmaWeapon]

Seriously, those physical requirements are roughly equivalent to the minimum requirements to the lower branches of the army.

Also, I find a few things that make the story seem made up... special-ops don't "sneak in by any breaching path", they can "infiltrate enemy lines by any means available".

I think they didn't spend enough time on this, like many gaming companies these days.

[Dracula]

Originally posted by Mottzilla
Those little requirements are insanely stupid.

Well, look at snake... Would HE say that? Maybe, maybe not. Hell, he would love it. Remember how excited he got after beating the 10th level in the VR missions? Yup.

[The Silent Assassin]

That list is just the easy part...