US Navy Seals, The Special Force Having The Most Brutal And Deadly Training.
Navy SEAL stands for Sea, Air and Land because they’re trained to handle themselves equal well in all these situations.
Navy SEALS take part in reconnaissance missions, direct action missions, information warfare, terrorism warfare, recovering personnel, anti-drug operations and many other types of missions.
Any place where there are currently U.S. troops, you'll find that SEALs are either there now or were there first.
The role that Navy SEAL teams play revolves around getting in and out quickly and without being seen, gathering intelligence, destroying targets, and performing rescues, among other things.
Navy SEALs must undergo one of the longest, most physically and mentally exhaustive training programs in the U.S. military.
It takes over 30 months to train a Navy SEAL to the point at which he will be ready for deployment.
The SEALs that emerge are ready to handle pretty much any task they could be called on to perform, including diving, combat swimming, navigation, demolitions, weapons, and parachuting.
The training pushes them to the limit both mentally and physically in order to weed out those who may not be able to successfully complete the demanding missions and operations with which SEALs are faced.
The types of stresses they endure during BUD/S(Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) are the same stresses they will endure as SEALs.
If they can't withstand it when lives aren't on the line, chances are good they won't be able to withstand it when lives are at stake.
What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? Even SEAL instructors can't predict who will make it all the way.
Navy SEALS take part in reconnaissance missions, direct action missions, information warfare, terrorism warfare, recovering personnel, anti-drug operations and many other types of missions.
Any place where there are currently U.S. troops, you'll find that SEALs are either there now or were there first.
The role that Navy SEAL teams play revolves around getting in and out quickly and without being seen, gathering intelligence, destroying targets, and performing rescues, among other things.
Navy SEALs must undergo one of the longest, most physically and mentally exhaustive training programs in the U.S. military.
It takes over 30 months to train a Navy SEAL to the point at which he will be ready for deployment.
The SEALs that emerge are ready to handle pretty much any task they could be called on to perform, including diving, combat swimming, navigation, demolitions, weapons, and parachuting.
The training pushes them to the limit both mentally and physically in order to weed out those who may not be able to successfully complete the demanding missions and operations with which SEALs are faced.
The types of stresses they endure during BUD/S(Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) are the same stresses they will endure as SEALs.
If they can't withstand it when lives aren't on the line, chances are good they won't be able to withstand it when lives are at stake.
What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? Even SEAL instructors can't predict who will make it all the way.
Entering training to become a Navy SEAL is voluntary.
Anyone can volunteer, and officers and enlisted men train side by side.
In order to enter SEAL training, however, they do have to meet certain requirements.
Those wishing to volunteer for SEAL training have to:
*. be an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy.
*. be a man (women aren't allowed to be Navy SEALs).
*. be 28 or younger (although waivers for 29- and 30-year-olds are possible).
*.have good vision at least 20/40 in one eye and 20/70 in the other (corrective surgery is also possible).
*. be a U.S. citizen.
*. pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(ASVAB).
*. Pass a stringent physical screening test that includes the following procedure:
*. Swim 500 yards in 12.5 minutes or less, followed by a 10 minute rest, do 42 push-ups in under two minutes, followed by a 2 minute rest, do 50 sit-ups in under 2 minutes, followed by a 2 minute rest, do six pull-ups, followed by a 10 minute rest, run 1.5 miles in boots and long pants in less than 11.5 minutes.
Once a potential SEAL qualifies for training, the real fun starts.
Anyone can volunteer, and officers and enlisted men train side by side.
In order to enter SEAL training, however, they do have to meet certain requirements.
Those wishing to volunteer for SEAL training have to:
*. be an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy.
*. be a man (women aren't allowed to be Navy SEALs).
*. be 28 or younger (although waivers for 29- and 30-year-olds are possible).
*.have good vision at least 20/40 in one eye and 20/70 in the other (corrective surgery is also possible).
*. be a U.S. citizen.
*. pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery(ASVAB).
*. Pass a stringent physical screening test that includes the following procedure:
*. Swim 500 yards in 12.5 minutes or less, followed by a 10 minute rest, do 42 push-ups in under two minutes, followed by a 2 minute rest, do 50 sit-ups in under 2 minutes, followed by a 2 minute rest, do six pull-ups, followed by a 10 minute rest, run 1.5 miles in boots and long pants in less than 11.5 minutes.
Once a potential SEAL qualifies for training, the real fun starts.
From day one in SEAL training, trainees are taught the importance ofteamwork. Focus is not on the individual.
The fact that the SEALs have never left another SEAL behind on a mission is a testament to this belief system.
Throughout their training, they learn more and more why teamwork is necessary in the type of work they will soon be entering.
SEALs are performing tasks that may not be possible for a single man to accomplish, but can be possible for a team composed of men who have the same training and skills.
Their success depends on what they can do together as a team.
The fact that the SEALs have never left another SEAL behind on a mission is a testament to this belief system.
Throughout their training, they learn more and more why teamwork is necessary in the type of work they will soon be entering.
SEALs are performing tasks that may not be possible for a single man to accomplish, but can be possible for a team composed of men who have the same training and skills.
Their success depends on what they can do together as a team.
Over 80 percent of SEAL potentials drop out or quit before finishing the program.
The Navy’s Basic Underwater Demolition Course is the very definition of rigorous but even that still doesn’t adequately describe the amount of mental and physical strength needed to complete each obstacle.
Recruits must endure and excel at tough running, swimming, and rafting routines daily on top of other grueling tasks that stretch each student well beyond human capabilities.
Just the idea of the 132 hours of training during Hell Week is enough to prompt a sailor to ring the class bell 3 times, signaling a permanent stop to his own training.
The Navy’s Basic Underwater Demolition Course is the very definition of rigorous but even that still doesn’t adequately describe the amount of mental and physical strength needed to complete each obstacle.
Recruits must endure and excel at tough running, swimming, and rafting routines daily on top of other grueling tasks that stretch each student well beyond human capabilities.
Just the idea of the 132 hours of training during Hell Week is enough to prompt a sailor to ring the class bell 3 times, signaling a permanent stop to his own training.
The SEAL acronym stands for Sea, Air, and Land, which identifies the elements in which they operate.
SEALs work in small units often one to two men, but sometimes in a platoon comprised of up to 16.
They are trained to perform specific tasks under any type of circumstance and in any environment.
Their training takes place in the desert, the jungle, in extreme hot and cold weather, and in urban areas.
SEALs work in small units often one to two men, but sometimes in a platoon comprised of up to 16.
They are trained to perform specific tasks under any type of circumstance and in any environment.
Their training takes place in the desert, the jungle, in extreme hot and cold weather, and in urban areas.
SEAL missions require detailed planning and precise execution.
SEALs are trained to perform missions that fall into five main categories:
*. Unconventional Warfare(UW) - Using guerilla warfare tactics in battle. Guerilla warfare is characterized by small, mobile combat groups that operate using often "unorthodox" battle methods like destroying enemy supplies, creating diversions, ambushing small enemy units, demolitions, and other "hit and run" types of operations.
*.Foreign Internal Defense(FID) - Training given to foreign nationals in order to build relationships. During Operation Desert Storm, Navy SEALs trained 13 Kuwaiti operators in maritime infiltration techniques in order to set up a secret meeting with local resistance contacts within Iraq-occupied Kuwait City.
*.Direct Action(DA) - Moving against an enemy target.This may include assaults on land- or water-based targets, hostage rescues, ambushes, etc.
*.Counterterrorism(CT) - Includes direct action against terrorist operations, antiterrorist actions for preventing terrorist acts, and protecting citizens and troops.
*.Special Reconnaissance(SR) - Includes conducting preliminary surveys to gather information, manning observation posts, and other types of surveillance, both overt and covert, where the goal is to gather information.This may include gathering hydrographic data (beach and water surveys) for landings or following an enemy unit and reporting it's position.
When SEALs aren't deployed, they're in constant training, both to hone basic skills and to learn new skills and techniques that will make a difference when they are deployed.
The above categories overlap when it comes to actual missions, but these are the basis of SEAL training: to be expert in the skills required to perform these various tasks.
SEALs are trained to perform missions that fall into five main categories:
*. Unconventional Warfare(UW) - Using guerilla warfare tactics in battle. Guerilla warfare is characterized by small, mobile combat groups that operate using often "unorthodox" battle methods like destroying enemy supplies, creating diversions, ambushing small enemy units, demolitions, and other "hit and run" types of operations.
*.Foreign Internal Defense(FID) - Training given to foreign nationals in order to build relationships. During Operation Desert Storm, Navy SEALs trained 13 Kuwaiti operators in maritime infiltration techniques in order to set up a secret meeting with local resistance contacts within Iraq-occupied Kuwait City.
*.Direct Action(DA) - Moving against an enemy target.This may include assaults on land- or water-based targets, hostage rescues, ambushes, etc.
*.Counterterrorism(CT) - Includes direct action against terrorist operations, antiterrorist actions for preventing terrorist acts, and protecting citizens and troops.
*.Special Reconnaissance(SR) - Includes conducting preliminary surveys to gather information, manning observation posts, and other types of surveillance, both overt and covert, where the goal is to gather information.This may include gathering hydrographic data (beach and water surveys) for landings or following an enemy unit and reporting it's position.
When SEALs aren't deployed, they're in constant training, both to hone basic skills and to learn new skills and techniques that will make a difference when they are deployed.
The above categories overlap when it comes to actual missions, but these are the basis of SEAL training: to be expert in the skills required to perform these various tasks.
Basic Conditioning is when the going gets rough. This is the phase where most Drops on Request (DOR) happen.
For eight weeks, trainees' days are filled with running, swimming, calisthenics, and learning small-boat operations.
One-to-2 mile ocean swims and running the mother of all obstacle courses are daily, and timed, events.
A trainee's time for these exercises must continuously improve.
Another important part of basic conditioning is drown-proofing. In this evolution, trainees must learn to swim with both their hands and their feet bound.
To pass drown-proofing, trainees enter a 9-foot-deep pool and complete the following steps with their hands and feet tied
Devil's job: bob for 5 minutes, float for 5 minutes, swim 100 meters, bob for 2 minutes, do some forward and backward flips, swim to the bottom of the pool and retrieve an object with their teeth, return to the surface and bob five more times with hands tied to the back.
For eight weeks, trainees' days are filled with running, swimming, calisthenics, and learning small-boat operations.
One-to-2 mile ocean swims and running the mother of all obstacle courses are daily, and timed, events.
A trainee's time for these exercises must continuously improve.
Another important part of basic conditioning is drown-proofing. In this evolution, trainees must learn to swim with both their hands and their feet bound.
To pass drown-proofing, trainees enter a 9-foot-deep pool and complete the following steps with their hands and feet tied
Devil's job: bob for 5 minutes, float for 5 minutes, swim 100 meters, bob for 2 minutes, do some forward and backward flips, swim to the bottom of the pool and retrieve an object with their teeth, return to the surface and bob five more times with hands tied to the back.
Another evolution is surf torture, also called "cold water conditioning.
" The water temperatures usually hover around 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18 C), and never go above 68 degrees F (20 C). From there, trainees may be ordered to do some calisthenics or run a mile and a half down the beach in their wet clothes and boots.
Then, they're ordered back into the surf. Many drills also require that teams carry their rubber boats over their heads as they run from one task to another.
" The water temperatures usually hover around 65 degrees Fahrenheit (18 C), and never go above 68 degrees F (20 C). From there, trainees may be ordered to do some calisthenics or run a mile and a half down the beach in their wet clothes and boots.
Then, they're ordered back into the surf. Many drills also require that teams carry their rubber boats over their heads as they run from one task to another.
Hell Week is the defining event of BUD/S training.
It is held early in the 3rd week of First Phase before the Navy makes an
expensive investment in SEAL operational training.
Hell Week consists of 5 days, 5 nights of cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training with less than four hours of sleep throughout the week.
Hell Week tests physical endurance, mental toughness, pain and cold tolerance, teamwork, attitude, and your ability to perform work under high physical and mental stress, and sleep deprivation.
Above all, it tests determination and desire. On average, only 20% of SEAL candidates make it through Hell Week, the toughest training in the U.S. Military.
Hell Week begins at sundown on Sunday and ends at the end of Friday.
During this time, trainees face continuous training evolutions. During Hell Week, trainees get four meals a day but usually hot meals of unlimited quantities.
Eating hot food is a substitute for being warm and dry. It gives a needed psychological boost to tired trainees, many of whom are nearly sleeping while they eat.
Every evolution during Hell Week involves the team (or boat crew) carrying their boat inflatable rubber Zodiacs over their heads.
Timed exercises, runs, and crawling through mud flats are interspersed throughout the five-and-a-half days.
The largest number of trainees drops out during Hell Week.
This extreme training is critical, though. SEALs on missions must be able to operate efficiently, oblivious to sub-zero temperatures and their own physical comfort. Their lives, as well as the lives of others, may depend on it.
Hell Week consists of 5 days, 5 nights of cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training with less than four hours of sleep throughout the week.
Hell Week tests physical endurance, mental toughness, pain and cold tolerance, teamwork, attitude, and your ability to perform work under high physical and mental stress, and sleep deprivation.
Above all, it tests determination and desire. On average, only 20% of SEAL candidates make it through Hell Week, the toughest training in the U.S. Military.
Hell Week begins at sundown on Sunday and ends at the end of Friday.
During this time, trainees face continuous training evolutions. During Hell Week, trainees get four meals a day but usually hot meals of unlimited quantities.
Eating hot food is a substitute for being warm and dry. It gives a needed psychological boost to tired trainees, many of whom are nearly sleeping while they eat.
Every evolution during Hell Week involves the team (or boat crew) carrying their boat inflatable rubber Zodiacs over their heads.
Timed exercises, runs, and crawling through mud flats are interspersed throughout the five-and-a-half days.
The largest number of trainees drops out during Hell Week.
This extreme training is critical, though. SEALs on missions must be able to operate efficiently, oblivious to sub-zero temperatures and their own physical comfort. Their lives, as well as the lives of others, may depend on it.
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