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Navy SEAL candidate dies and a second is hospitalized after completing 'Hell Week' in San Diego: Five day course sees recruits run 200 miles, work out for 20 hours-a-day and sleep fewer than four hours
2022-02-07
Had they got the COVID vaccine?
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The Sailors were not actively training when they reported symptoms and were transported to receive emergency care,' the Navy said in a press release. It is unclear what 'symptoms' the pair displayed.

They had both reportedly completed Hell Week, which takes place during the fourth week of part of Phase 1 of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training.

It is a grueling 'five-and-a-half days of cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training on fewer than four hours of sleep,' the Navy says, and candidates 'run more than 200 miles and do physical training for more than 20 hours per day.'

The Navy produces around 200 to 250 SEALs a year. In the last two decades, 17 have died during training, NBC News reported.

SEAL candidates go through 24 weeks of training throughout five phases, including a physical training test, obstacle courses, extensive swimming and running, combat diving, land warfare training and other physically difficult tests.

Many candidates do not make it pasted Phase 1, also known as Stage 3, and a 'significant' number begin to drop out.
Posted by:Skidmark

#11  Agreed the 200 miles is an exaggeration. But I have spent time at Coronado and watched them. It is grueling. I am surprised more have not died, the better statistic would be how many are medical out. They are hypothermic for most of the training. Its crazy.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2022-02-07 17:22  

#10  I'll stick by my earlier assertion--the candidates do not "run more than 200 miles" during the 5 and a half days. I read David Goggins book and he made no mention of those kinds of distances until he had long cleared the hell weeks he endured.

The candidates are indeed "physical studs", but they are also of each of the 3 different body types. Marathon runners tend to be almost exclusively "ectomorphs". For an endomorpho or mesomorph to bang out 200 miles in a 5 day period while also doing all of the other grueling tasks that comprise hell week is an assertion I have read nowhere else. The reporter had to be incorrect, or the reporter's source was incorrect.
Posted by: Crusader   2022-02-07 12:36  

#9  David Groggins
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-07 12:03  

#8  Well, think 2 miles from the compound to the mess hall ~x6<> is 18. Add a fast 25 mile ruck and you've got about 40x5 days~200.

These guys are studs.
Get the 2 mile run @8-10 minutes/mile [prob closer to 5] and the 'marathon' at a [easy] 4:30 pace. Say 6 hours on the road, 30 minutes to eat, and 4 hours of sleep leaves plenty of time for swimming and PT.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-07 12:01  

#7  I believe somebody's reporting wasn't careful enough. There's not a chance that candidates "run more than 200 miles" during the 5 and a half days. That's basically all they would have time to do--that's a marathon and a half every 24 hours for 5 straight days. I've read David Goggins book and he makes no mention of that kind of distance. In fact, he makes no mention of running those kind of distances until after he had already completed the hell weeks he went thru.
Posted by: Crusader   2022-02-07 10:55  

#6  Israeli Ministry of Health study reported in New England Jourbal of Medicine involving over 150,000 young men who received Pfizer vaccine found that within 30 days of the second jab, the myocarditis rate for boys (~1 in 12,000) was about 10x higher than normal.

Nb. That's just the risk of one type of heart effect, myocarditis, and only within the first 30 days of receiving Pfizer's experimental gene therapy. The real rate of serious adverse cardiac damage, over a lifetime, is even higher.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-07 09:45  

#5  Unrelated to the tragic story:

Had a dual-Karma moment yesterday afternoon on I-24 headed Southbound toward Nashville. Traffic stopped, accident or something. A few minutes passed, cars began driving along the shoulder (emergency lane) back North to an 'on ramp.' First one, then dozens. As soon as it began, it stopped. Off in the distance behind me, a sea of blue flashing lights. KARMA !

About fifteen minutes later, the traffic began to slowly move. In the grassy median between the North and South bound highways, cars appear. First one then a half dozen or more, joined by a large Dodge 4x4 pick-up buried rear axel deep. All stuck in the mud as they were attempting to cross over the median and head back North. KARMA !

Do not tell me there is no Gawd.

Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-07 07:16  

#4  The past few weeks SoCal weather has been nice during the day.
But in the morning and at night it can be quite cold.
And the water can be quite cold.
Hypothermia can put quite a strain on the heart too.
Posted by: boomerc   2022-02-07 07:05  

#3  /\ The fact we'll probably never be told, is also another good bet.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-02-07 03:28  

#2  It is unclear what 'symptoms' the pair displayed.

If they got the mRNA vaccine, it's a good bet those were cardiac symptoms eg myocarditis
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2022-02-07 02:22  

#1  My naps are longer than 4 hours!
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-07 02:07  

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