One of the toughest SEALs I ever knew was very plain physically. Fit, mind you, but not overwhelming. He led us in PT every afternoon on a flight deck underway, summertime, hot as hell.
One day he passes out and the staff doctor rushed out to administer first aid. We medivacced him off the ship, turns out he had been working through the pain of kidney stones, didn’t wanna miss any action.
SEAL training is extremely rigorous, having a reputation as some of the toughest anywhere in the world. The drop out rate for BUD/S classes are sometimes over 90 percent.[26] The average Navy SEAL spends over a year in a series of formal training environments before being awarded the Special Warfare Operator Naval Rating and the Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) 5326 Combatant Swimmer (SEAL) or, in the case of commissioned naval officers, the designation Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer.
All Navy SEALs must attend and graduate from their rating's 24-week "A" school known as Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/s) training and then the 26-week SEAL Qualification Training (SQT) program. SQT qualifies all BUD/S graduates in basic SEAL skillsets in MAROPS, Combat Swimmer, Communications, TCCC, Close Quarters Combat, Land Warfare, Staticline/Freefall Parachute Operations, SERE Level C, CQD and Hand-to-Hand Combat.[27] All sailors entering the SEAL training pipeline with a medical rating or those chosen by Naval Special Warfare Command must also attend the 6 month Advanced Medical Training Course 18D and subsequently earn the NEC SO-5392 Naval Special Warfare Medic before joining an operational Team. Once outside the formal schooling environment SEALs entering a new Team at the beginning of an operational rotation can expect 18 months of advanced training before each 6 month deployment. In total, from the time a prospective SEAL enters military service to the time he finishes his first predeployment training cycle, it can take over 30 months to completely train a Navy SEAL for his first deployment.[28][29] [edit]
According to author Orr Kelly, citing Navy studies, the average SEAL is 5 ft. 8 in. and weights 179 pounds.
Former SEAL Team 6 member Denny Chalker didn’t give any numbers but in his autobiography he said the average SEAL looks like a very fit guy of average height and build. He said the long runs on the beach tend to weed out the big guys and the log PT and handling the boats tends to eliminate the small guys. So you are left, with some exceptions, with a bunch of average size men.
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