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2022-09-29 -Land of the Free

Navy SEALs recruits face stricter blood tests after steroids scandal where a recruit died after Hell Week: One officer claims 'significant portion of the candidate population is utilizing a wide range of performance enhancing drugs'

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 When you train up against the very limits of human capacity guy will always try to look for a way to get better, and just exercise will not do it. We see it in pro athletes, Olympic athletes, and in top tier Military. This issue is not a Seal issue, its a leadership issue. Leaders are ignoring it and need to address it. Drug testing is only a slice. Med screening for their health, training for the instructors to recognize the human limits in the individual and intervene when appropriate without being retaliatory is important.

Posted by 49 Pan 2022-09-29 11:06|| 2022-09-29 11:06|| Front Page Top

#2 These guys don't get a short season, Docs and hydration on the sidelines, timeouts, halftimes or million dollar endorsements and super-models.

Defense grilled on fentanyl crisis post Fort Bragg, Fort Bliss, West Point drug overdoses: 'Troubling pattern'

Posted by Skidmark 2022-09-29 14:49|| 2022-09-29 14:49|| Front Page Top

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