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2022-09-11 -Land of the Free
Investigation is launched into brutal Navy SEALs training program after death of recruit who took steroids: Staff 'punched and kicked' recruits after new commander made course even tougher
  • Outgoing vice chief of naval operations, Adm. William K Lescher, ordered an investigation into the selection course for Navy SEALS on August 31

  • He asked investigators to focus on safety measures, the qualifications of instructors and medical personnel and its drug testing policy

  • Lescher also asked them to find what, if anything, had changed after Kyle Mullen, 24, died just hours after completing the Hell Week part of the course

  • Mullen died of bacterial pneumonia, which drowned him in his own bodily fluids

  • He and 40 of his classmates were later found to have been taking steroids to get through the course

  • Sailors say it has only gotten worse since former SEAL Team Six commander Capt. Bradley Geary was put in charge and made his friends instructors
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 
Given the job/missions they will be tasked with. Serious extreme Physical & Psycho testing is a must.

Does anyone think the "voluneers" for ST or the SFOD-D Q-course, DON'T already know that the qualifications and testing are all extremely Nut Bursting serious?
Posted by NN2N1 2022-09-11 07:02||   2022-09-11 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 There is necessary hardship and then there is just plain S&M.
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-09-11 07:21||   2022-09-11 07:21|| Front Page Top

#3 No officer would want to be accused of making it easier (except maybe for women) and just keeping it the same is not putting his / her own imprimatur on the command.

So, of course, the answer is to make it more dangerous than it needs to be.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-09-11 08:02||   2022-09-11 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4  Capt. Bradley Geary was put in charge and made his friends instructors

Returning to the model of convicted felon Dick Marcinko. Not good. Not good at all.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-09-11 09:10||   2022-09-11 09:10|| Front Page Top

#5 
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-11 10:37||   2022-09-11 10:37|| Front Page Top

#6  convicted felon Dick Marcinko

Some say Marcinko's downfall was his alignment with Ace Lyons.
Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-11 10:44||   2022-09-11 10:44|| Front Page Top

#7 ...Fastest way around part of this is to do IMMEDIATE UA on everybody who's made it through Hell Week. Once a few guys not only lose everything they've worked for, but get thrown out, that crap will stop PDQ.

SEAL training is a legendary nightmare, because it HAS to be. That said, these guys ain't saints.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-09-11 16:38||   2022-09-11 16:38|| Front Page Top

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