Members of the United States Naval Academy freshman class do sit-ups as a team holding heavy logsPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images... an exhausting task for manyPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesFreshmen push through tough physical exercisesPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Trainees help each other over the Dong Ha Bridge exercisePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA freshman in a muddy ditch ditch as part of the "wet and sandy" exercisePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesClass members link arms and lay back in Maryland's Severn river as part of the same exercisePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesWading out into the SevernPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA pipe-patching challengePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA mock raid as part of the military operations/urban-terrain squad exercisePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe mock raid continuesPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesThe class practise ground fighting techniques Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images... and class engage in a paintball battlePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesA freshman pours water out of her boot and eats a quick snackPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesCompany 16 lead a two-mile run across the Naval Academy BridgePhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesUpperclassmen wear T-shirts quoting Winston Churchill as they instruct the freshmenPhotograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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