BUD/S Training
Phase 1
Phase One of BUD/s is conditionting-both mental and phyisical. It lasts 9 weeks. During those 9 weeks Tadpoles (trainees) face many challenges includeing long runs and swims and trips to the O' Course and the minimum scores for them are raised each week. Tadpoles must improve their already awesome scores each week.
Everyday gets harder and harder. The instructers push you more and more past what you thought were your limits. That's where the saying "The Only Easy Day Was Yeasterday" came from. The trainees spend lots of time in the freezing ocean. They learn to ward off mental offects of hypothermia. It will prepare them for dives in cold water. Meanwhile more and more poeple are quitting. (You don't just quit BUD/S you ring out.You stand on green painted frogfeet and and hit the bell.)
After 5 weeks of that you have to go through HellWeek. That is 5 days and 5 nights of nonstop training. With 20 minutes of sleep a day. When you rest it's in mud pits. Another favorite torture.
Hell Week begins at midnight with sounds of M16's and bombs going off as an alarm clock. The instructors are trying to creat chaose and they do a damn good job of it. During HellWeek Tadpoles are fed 7,000 calories a day. Yet they are still hungry and are looseing a lot of body fat. About the fourth day you start to see hilucinations. Mermaids and other entertaining images. When your mind is at that state the instuctors make you write an essay of why you want to be a Navy SEAL. After 4 days of no sleep and harsh trainng you find it hard to answer a simple question. on the 5th day you here the magic words "Hell Week Secure!" Good Job Men!! After Hellweek you spend the rest of the time learning about S.C.U.B.A. Stuff to prepare you for Phase 2. ON TO PHASE 2 MEN!
Phase 2
Any one left from phase 1 move on to diving classes. They learn to navigate in murky water. They will swim long distances to get in shape. The tadpoles learn to deal with equipment failures. They also will have drown proofing tests. This is when when they swim with their hands and feet together. The idea is to learn not to panic. Panicing is a good way to end up a casuality.
Mostly all phase 2 is just learning about S.C.U.B.A. gear and other underwater things. At the end of phase 2 there will be a few more quitters.
Phase 3
This part of training consists of Demolition/Recon/Land Warfare. The Trainees learn Land Navigation Skills and Small Unit Tactics (guerilla warfare). Demolition will be under water as well as on land.
What I Think of BUD/S
I think BUD/s is the toughest training in the U.S. Military- maybe even in all countries training. The training has been critisized for being too harsh. The instructors do it for a purpose! They want to make sure that there soldires will be able to work and think well in harsh condition and with the stress of combat. No matter how much the pain a SEAL should always keep fighting and working.
Completed BUD/S but not yet a SEAL
The trainees completed BUD/S-GOOD JOB MEN, but they still can't call themselves SEALs. They must now complete jump school at Army's base-Fort Benning. On the first jump the tadpoles have knots in their stomachs but they are not about to give up now!
They will finish that and have to complete one more thing.
They must complete a 6-12 month probation period on an active duty SEAL Team, including SEAL Tactical Training (STT). They then have a board that determines if they can wear the Trident.
Now they earned the title.
Pictures comming soon!!!!
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