Survival School

[leethet]

I was just reading tgabrielle's most interesting old post about Survival School here and it got me thinking about two things. 1) Napoleon's student A-number one, top dog, big cheese, etc., at Survival School. That gets me all girly inside, initially, about how entirely sexy and cool he is, but you know what? Given what's required to be top dog at Survival School, it kind of makes Napoleon an asshole, doesn't it? Or at least, not really very admirable as a human being. Cunning, ruthless, underhanded, manipulative ... hm. Good UNCLE agent, not so good person. 2) tgabrielle points out that we see only the physical training and wonders if they simply didn't show the intellectual stuff because it's hard to film, which makes sense. But it got me thinking ... what if Survival School is just that? A physical survival school. And there's other schools, maybe one or more than one, with courses the agents must pass to enter the field. There's nothing indicating for sure that agents only take Survival School and no other training, is there? So there could be History School and Intelligence School and all that other stuff (or, one school for the physical stuff and one for the intellectual/psychological stuff). And what would that other school/those other schools be like? So ... that's all. I was just thinkin. :)

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[leethet.livejournal.com]

I'd never thought of it until her post made me visualize. As you say, the setting doesn't look like anything but a series of physical tests (the demolition, I think, counts as that, just as firearms training would); the mental aspects of it might be dealt with on another island. :)