Surviving the Cut takes audience into the intense world of military best forces training with strange, unprecedented admittance. In this convincing all new series, from divers and snipers to para-rescue men and bomb specialists, the elite and how they earn a place in the coveted units is the focus. Surviving the Cut is a full throttle, action-packed journey into the backbreaking hell that is military training from the most competitive and brutal underwater training tests in the US Army Special Forces Underwater Operations Course to the unforgiving, torturous demands of Army Rangers training.
Clark B said, “No other military show has ever taken such a genuine, honest look at the people behind the uniform. Surviving the Cut will inspire and captivate viewers by showing them a truly poignant glimpse of the extreme physical and mental strength required throughout military training.” Including Special Forces Divers, Marine Recon, Air Force Pararescue, Navy EOD, Marine Snipers and Army Rangers, the personal search of men and women dedicated to making it into the military’s most coveted and elite units are shared in Surviving The Cut. To become the best of the best, Surviving The Cut takes up close and personal look inside the candidate’s emotional journeys as they conquer the ruthless minefields of physical and psychological hurdles.
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Surviving The Cut Episode Guide
Title: Ranger School
Premiered on: Wednesday, 8/18 at 10PM e/p
Synopsis:
US Army Ranger School is measured the toughest battle course on the planet. This intense training imitates the nonstop stress of fighting for sixty-one days and nights. Soldiers receive just one meal per day and sleep an average of three hours a night. They train constantly, running missions 20 hours directly in mountains, swamps and dense woodlands. Before it is over most lose 20 or more pounds and many quit or fail the course along the way. Only one in three make it though.
Title: US Air Force Pararescue
Premieres: Wednesday, 8/25 at 10PM e/p
Synopsis:
In US Special Operations, Air Force Pararescuemen is the most highly trained battle search and rescue experts. These are the specialists who stop at nothing to get pilot out when a he goes down behind opponent lines. “Parajumpers,” nicknamed “PJ’s” are also surgically trained combat medics. To become a PJ, full training takes more than two years. Early, students must survive one disreputably “Extended Training Day,” tricky milestone planned to weed out anybody not able to the staggering demands of the PJ job. In any special operations training course competitors the torment of this single day nothing else, it is 24 hours of pure hell. Only nine men out of 100 survive the cut and are permitted to carry on the training as a PJ, in the end.
Title: US Marine Recon
Premieres: Wednesday, 9/1 at 10PM e/p
Synopsis:
The eyes and ears of the Marine Corps are Reconnaissance Marines. Behind enemy lines the first men on the ground, they gather intelligence and carry out missions that support the entire Corps. Their slogan says it all: Swift, Silent, Deadly. The person must first survive the Corps’ famously grueling 12-week recon course, to earn the name “Recon Marine.” In the pool Marines are pressed to oblivion and then fight their 90-pound packs into the pounding surf of the Pacific Ocean. It is a man breaking all-out patience test that fakes top soldiers with unmatched skills.
Title: Special Forces Diver
Premieres: Wednesday, 9/8 at 10PM e/p
Synopsis:
Only the Army’s best soldiers are taken by The US Army’s Special Forces Combat Dive Course. The majority are already battle-proven Army Rangers and Green Berets. To become the most highly trained combat divers on the planet these elite special ops soldiers defy themselves. They are tested in the most severe underwater circumstances for six weeks. These men will push the confines of the human body to show they have what it takes, to earn the coveted Special Forces Diver Badge. One in three won’t make it the rest survive the cut.
Title: Navy EOD Final Certification
Premieres: Wednesday, 9/15 at 10PM e/p
Synopsis:
For special operations, Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians are the only qualified explosives and bomb specialists. They must go through one final test before a Navy EOD team can go to war with Special Forces. Like the job itself, it is all training, a five-day, non-stop series of high stress missions. Make the incorrect move, allow tiredness or distraction to conquest and the entire team will fail. The team that survives the cut stays jointly as a certified special ops team.
Title: Marine Snipers
Premieres: Wednesday, 9/22 at 10PM e/p
Synopsis:
For being the best, Marine Snipers are famous in the sniper world. They learn their craft here. To this course only the best men is sent by units but on average 1 in 3 will fail. A level of discipline is taken by becoming a Marine sniper that few could ever hope to achieve. In the worst possible conditions, they will wait hours however to make the shot, they only have seconds.
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