Every event had standards: times you had to meet. If you failed to meet those standards your name was posted on a list, and at the end of the day those on the list were invited to a Circus. A Circus was two hours of additional calisthenics designed to wear you down, to break your spirit, to force you to quit. No one wanted a circus. A Circus meant that, for that day, you didn’t measure up. A Circus meant more fatigue, and more fatigue meant that the following day would be more difficult—and more Circuses were likely. But at some time during SEAL training, everyone—everyone—made the Circus
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