<p>Keep checking the TV listings for The Military Channel - they seem to show them every month or so.</p>
<p>There are 3 different episodes:</p>
<p>Inside America’s Military Academies: Surviving the First Year</p>
<p>With an academic load of five or six courses, two to four hours of physical training a day, as well as inspections, marches and memorization drills, the first year in one of America’s four military academies is the most grueling experience of any freshman’s life. During the first six weeks, new cadets must take part in a 16-hour endurance test known as “warrior forge,” the uphill, mile-long “jeep push” and “the beast” – a 15-mile march they must complete wearing 40 pounds of gear. </p>
<p>Inside America’s Military Academies: No Time Off for Summer</p>
<p>Most college students take a vacation during the summer, but there’s no such rest for cadets and midshipmen at America’s military academies. Those at West Point slide down 70-foot towers, roll 400-pound barrels up mile-long hills and learn how to drive a 60-ton tank. Future submariners go to Navy Submarine School to pilot high-tech simulators and learn how to cope with undersea fires and floods. Aspiring marines practice hand-to-hand combat and other lethal skills in Quantico, Va., while their counterparts at the Air Force Academy fly gliders in the Colorado mountains. And for five weeks, Coast Guard midshipmen sail a huge square-rigger down the eastern seaboard to Puerto Rico. </p>
<p>Inside America’s Military Academies: The Making of an Officer</p>
<p>The first year at an American military academy is about learning to follow; the last three, learning to lead. This hour gives viewers an inside look at the physical, academic and moral training that turns “plebes” and “swabs” into officers. At the Naval Academy, midshipmen must complete a 40-minute swim without stopping or touching the sides of the pool. West Point cadets must run the most difficult indoor obstacle course in America. At the Air Force Academy, skydiving is an extracurricular activity, and we talk with one cadet who has jumped more than 550 times. But the payoff for four grueling years is the sense of pride and achievement at graduation, which viewers witness when they watch the ceremony at West Point and meet the newest class of officers.</p>
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