Posted on Feb 8, 2022
Should Navy SEAL 'Hell Week' practices be reconsidered after the recent tragedy?
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On Sunday, Navy officials announced SEAL candidate, 24-year-old Kyle Mullen, died after the highly demanding training session known as 'Hell Week' and left another sailor hospitalized. This isn't the first incident during or connected to Hell Week.
Hell Week is meant to test the physical and mental determination to perform in the most difficult conditions; it's why Navy SEALs are recognized as some of the highest trained members of the U.S. military special operations forces.
Do you think 'Hell Week' needs to be reconsidered or is it a necessary risk?
Hell Week is meant to test the physical and mental determination to perform in the most difficult conditions; it's why Navy SEALs are recognized as some of the highest trained members of the U.S. military special operations forces.
Do you think 'Hell Week' needs to be reconsidered or is it a necessary risk?
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Gee, maybe he was weak? Seals have been training pretty much the same way since they were called UDT in WW!! And guess what folks we lose people in training all the time- it is a dangerous job. Tankers don't know if the ran over a tree or Billy Bob who wasn't paying attention.
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Change nothing, we train how we fight and if we expect our troops to endure extreme, dangerous and life threating situations in battle; they need to train to be prepared. There is danger in everything we do; not only military, but civilian as well. Every year we hear of high school athletes dying during training camps ... should we just end everything that is meant to be hard...
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No. I'd rather die in training than in combat where my enemy trained a little harder and the rest of my unit was depending on me
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Military training is not high school in Oregon where standards are waived to make sure everyone graduates.
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Does this mean that we should stop Airborne training also, because in the history of the US Military Airborne school has the highest rate of injuries per session than any other school? Broken legs, arms, wrists happen almost on a daily basis sometimes before they even reach an aircraft.
Is it a true shame that we lost that service member during Buds. Yes it is, however I would say this to you. If there were someway for us to reach that young man right now and pose your question to him I can almost assure you that his response would be to not stop Hell Week. He gave that course all that he had to give and unfortunately he gave too much.
Is it a true shame that we lost that service member during Buds. Yes it is, however I would say this to you. If there were someway for us to reach that young man right now and pose your question to him I can almost assure you that his response would be to not stop Hell Week. He gave that course all that he had to give and unfortunately he gave too much.
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I agree with many of you on here. Let's wait and find out why he died. Maybe he had an undiagnosed condition like maybe a brain aneurysm. For those that don't know, check out what happened to Emilia Clarke, from Game of Thrones. Life is not guaranteed.
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No, being in the military brings risks. We should not let up on the hard training that is needed to be a seal. We should take the same stance as Mossad, never let up!
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