Being the best comes with a price many instructors tell the SEAL trainees. The price is they must work the hardest. The training has many different parts. It starts out with boot camp, boot camp is a three-month program that conditions you and gets you into military shape. To get into the SEAL training you must next pass the SEAL qualification course and pass the ASVAB. This isn�t a problem for most, as �SEALS are very intelligent twenty-five percent have college degrees and most pass the ASVAB high enough to enter the navy�s nuclear program� (BUD/S class 234 video). Next is Basic Underwater Demolitions course known as BUD/S. BUD/S is a six-month program that will get rid of the uncommitted and weak. During BUD/S SEAL trainees go through activities that are not only physically tough but also mentally, like Hell week. Hell week is five days of no sleep in a combat environment. BUD/S has a 70% drop out rate (U.S. Navy SEAL). Even a former Army Ranger Greg Miller said, �SEALS go through the hardest training without a doubt.� After BUD/S, it�s off to Fort Benning for a couple weeks for parachuting training. Most who jump from planes don�t jump at nearly as high altitudes like the SEALS. If a SEAL trainee has passed BUD/S and parachute training then he would next be sent to SEAL Qualification Training also known as SQT. SQT first takes off in the desert with live fire and gun familiarization drills. SEALS get use to many guns and are expert with those guns and, if needed, could put the guns back together. Other activities in the desert are survival skills. SEALS are required to be an expert not only in shooting and swimming but are also required to be medically trained for battle. SEALS are issued their gear during this stage of training. SEALS choose how to carry their gear. It�s said, �no SEAL looks alike but all carry same equipment�(pg. 82 The Finishing School). SEALS get use to their gear by completing long harsh runs in the desert. That way if they feel the need to fix something they can do so. SEALS are also masters at demolitions. This is practiced very hard at SQT �6,000 pounds of demolitions are used in a couple weeks of training�(pg 122 The Finishing School). Once completing SQT SEALS are rewarded the Navy SEAL trident. �You haven�t earned this; you inherited it�(Chief Warrant Officer Loo). After being rewarded the trident it�s on to post graduation training in Kodiak, Alaska. Here the SEALS will face many hardships, like surviving in extremely cold weather and combat rock climbing. They will go on long hikes into the cold snowy mountains and practice proper warming techniques for those who travel in the icy cold waters, as they only have 6 minutes before temperatures get too low for the body to handle. Combat rock climbing is important to the SEALS because SEALS do very difficult missions and those missions are in many difficult environments. Completing post graduation training is a great relief for the SEALS. SEALS will then be sent to one of eight SEAL teams. Each team is trained for certain areas. There they will be trained specifically for a certain job such as rock climbing expert, weapons expert, medic, sniper, and many more depending on what the team needs. It�s called advanced training and they also have the opportunity to have laser eye surgery and take a foreign language course. SEALS will then train for 18 months with their team before being deployed into real-world combat.
SEALS do all their training to be ahead of the enemy. When the enemy is about to fire, the SEALS are already pulling the trigger. SEALS do missions other forces can�t do such as direct action, counter terrorism, special reconnaissance, foreign internal defense, information warfare, counter drug operations, personnel search and rescue. Navy SEALS have been recorded to have rescued the first prisoner of war since WWII. � The world would be much different without the SEALS�(Petty Officer Warner). SEALS are different because they can attack from the sea. And that�s exactly what former President Kennedy wanted when he formed the Navy SEALS. They are the only special operations task unit that can do so. SEALS have destroyed more than 500,000 pounds of explosives in their missions. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, SEALS secured off-shore gas and oil terminals and checked for chemical and biological radiological sites.
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