SEAL training needs to be extremely physically and mentally demanding. It need not be dangerous; at least not so dangerous that three students die within such a short period of time because of non-training related health issues.
It need not be dangerous; at least not so dangerous that three students die within such a short period of time because of non-training related health issues.
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The one I know who made it through and survived a helo crash years later in service explained “the only easy day is yesterday” was not just a saying. Compare the physical demands of what these folks have to get through on top of having a “mandated” clot shot. I find this not unlike the many soccer and other sports players dropping all over.
I think those are two different things.
First, because the training is demanding in the extreme, it is dangerous. Putting men into a near hypo or hyperthermic state precisely because they will encounter it in real operations is not an “atrocity”. It is the best thing for men who have to be prepared to encounter it, work through it for a mission, and survive it.
The fact that there were fatalities close together does not automatically make it an “atrocity” as the mother is characterizing it.
That said, she is entitled to the truth, whatever that is.