When I was in Counter Insurgency/Weapons training at the NavAmphibBase in Coronado (near Dago) in 1968 I used to see the UDT guys in training running everywhere with those neoprene boats hoisted on their shoulders. I’m surprised that more don’t collapse.
Bingo! And, of course, many do and then get up and shake it off.
The public often does not realize that SEAL and other special force candidates train to learn to operate for lengths of time at the limits of mental and physical exhaustion.
This candidate may well have succumbed to pneumonia (a somewhat common ailment in any military boot camp), but it appears this devastated mom is looking for chargeable negligence.
It could be her "support group" is flush with folks who would like to see a watering down of special force's capability and they are urging her on for their purposes.
Her politician: "As things stand now, the SEALs investigate themselves. This is absurd." He needs a clue.