Willie Goldman wrote:
There's also some basics I want to adhere too - like Band of Brothers had some great PT scenes with the unit running up the same hill over and over again, but it's hard to make a running sequence pop on the page, especially in a sci fi script...
Need to think of a fun obstacle course too that doesn't bore the reader / viewer...
Have them be shot at with rubber bullets, bean bag shot guns. To help "motivate" them to go faster.
The use of sharks, alligators can be used in water (for that kind of obstacle). Wild boars, tigers on land. These can be real or simulated. Or you can use alien creatures.
Team building with small groups... think of Predator, or Predators. The team is dropped into an unknown hostile place. Booby traps (non-lethal but painful). They have to go from one area to another while someone with multiple advantages (knowledge of the terrain, booby trap location). No team member can be left behind.
Psychological fears, if you are afraid of fire, heights, snakes, etc... that fear must be incorporated into the training.
At the same, in training, as well as in combat, the humor is deep and dark. It the trainer is present, it has to suppressed laughter, like at a funeral home, or in church.
Language, colorful. Watch Full Metal Jacket, the first half. It's very close to what I experienced in Boot Camp, PISC. I got hit once during uniform issue, and once in the gas chamber. During field combat training, I got hit with a helmet and the poor recruit next to me got hit first, and soaked up some of my damage.