I reached my breaking point mentally. My vomiting had been reduced to constant dry heave unless the instructors gave us water Which I puked up within minutes The pain in my back had worsened in my left hip locked up And this was only a few hours into hell week. "From that moment I was at war the instructors were my enemy and I would push forward no matter the cost" Five days later, as the instructors raised the american flag and shouted hell week is secured several students felled the beach unconscious and had to be dragged off in stretchers.