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The SEAL teams have faced criticism for decades, both from outsiders and their own Navy leadership, that their selection course is too difficult, too brutal, and too often causes concussions

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													Death in Navy SEAL training exposes a culture of brutality, cheating and drugs
													
														The SEAL teams have faced criticism for decades, both from outsiders and their own Navy leadership, that their selection course is too difficult, too brutal, and too often causes concussions
															
					
											
						
														
								
									
										
											
																									
													
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													A photo provided by the Naval Special Warfare Command shows U.S. Navy SEAL candidates participating in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in 2018 in Coronado, Calif. Frequent plunges in the frigid Pacific Ocean are one of the most difficult aspects of training.  (Petty Officer 1st Class Abe McNatt/Naval Special Warfare Command via The New York Times)Kyle Mullen always had the natural drive and talent that made success look easy. Until he tried out for the Navy SEALs.

The 24-year-old arrived on the California coast in January for the SEALs’ punishing selection course in the best shape of his life — even better than when he was a state champion defensive end in high school or the captain of the football team at Yale.

But by the middle of the course’s third week — a continual gut punch of physical and mental hardship, sleep deprivation and hypothermia that the SEALs call Hell Week — the 6-foot-4 athlete from Manalapan, New Jersey, was dead-eyed with exhaustion, riddled with infection and coughing up blood from lungs that were so full of fluid that others who were there said later that he sounded like he was gargling.

The course began with 210 men. By the middle of Hell Week, 189 had quit or been brought down by injury. But Mullen kept on slogging for days, spitting blood all the while. The instructors and medics conducting the course, perhaps out of admiration for his grit, did not stop him.

And he made it. When he struggled out of the cold ocean at the end of Hell Week, SEAL leaders shook his hand, gave him a pizza and told him to get some rest. Then he went back to his barracks and laid down on the floor. A few hours later, his heart stopped beating and he died.

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/death-in-navy-seal-training-exposes-a-culture-of-brutality-cheating-and-drugs-8120690/


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