How long does it take, starting from Day 1 at BUD/S school, until a student is nominally considered to be a fully-trained SEAL?
In my era it was a year, six months of BUD/S Training, followed by a six month probationary period, which included successful completion of what was then called SEAL Basic Indoctrination in-house at the east or west coast SEAL Teams.
My understanding is that with the past decade’s war footing, it’s a lot faster, and deployed platoons are lucky to go overseas with even a couple of experienced frogs. The “new guy” ratio in the platoons is at an all-time high.