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Infraredkelp

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I want to be a Navy SEAL when I get older and was wondering if there any Navy SEALs on this forum. I would like to learn more about the training and different skills you have picked up. Thanks :)
 
Living in San Diego, all you have to do is go have some drinks at McP's in Coronado, buy some drinks and one of the SEALs will probably fill you in.
 
he said he wants to be a navy seal when he gets older...chances are that he is not old enough to buy drinks
 
Braddy,
That "when I get older" phrase is a hint that he may not be able to buy at McP's. Good thought tho'.

IRKelp,
Deleted. Read Thomas Linton's post below, excellent link.

I used to watch these guys training at Coronado; some were BUDS and some were with the Teams. They do lots of PT -- no joke. Just watching them do the occasional swim was tiring. I used to do a mile in a nice pool just before lunch and it's no comparison to ocean swimming just outside the surf zone.
 
I used to work at a dive shop with a former SEAL, intresting individual. There wasn't an ounce of brag or swag in the guy, very quiet, down to earth. I worked with him for a long time before he said anything about his background.

He had the habit of biking to work each day, seven miles. He would then run home in the evening, run back to work in the morning, and then bike home. Mac
 
I thought you just shaved your head like Demi Moore did and you were IN!

Being a former Marine - I know that many of the Navy Seals come fom the Marines. You express interest to your command and then work your BUTT OFF to be recommended for BUD's. You then go to BUD's and don't wash out. (Well over 80% DO wash out).

Unfortunately there is no formula - there is the need to be selected.

TF
 
Talfuchre hit the nail on the head. There has to not only be a slot, but you have to be in the top at everything you do. The wash-out rate for Marine Recon is something like 90+% (and that's just INDOC) so you can imagine the rate for SEALs. If you were to join the Marine Corps, you'd have to have a perfect PFT, Expert Rifle, exceptional pros and cons (kind of like a rating system for Marines), and many other aspects of military life would have to be near perfect to even be considered. Getting into the SEALs isn't just a sign up and do it thing it's a billet MOS, which means you have to be selected or just that good. It requires years of work and the needs of the Corps/Navy/Army come first. You can request the orders but it's a very selective MOS. Try out military life first; hollywood would have you think it's all hardcore glamour and glory. That it is NOT. Look in your area and talk to some family and friends that may have connections to the military that may know some SEALs and talk to them. Don't talk to a recruiter till you have the facts and have talked to someone who's been there. Want to know how a recruiter is lying? His lips are moving. :D

I don't mean to be a stick in the mud; I'm just giving you the facts.
 
Here is a link to an article that will clear up some of the myths. The SEALS are increasing their numbers, and increasing the number of students that pass the course by eliminating many of the predictable dropouts before they can even start.

http://www.imakenews.com/eletra/mod...797&u=signal&issue_id=000165144&lid=b11&uid=0

Recruits now can enlist and choose to be a SEAL as their primary Navy occupation.
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According to the master chief, Navy data reveals that sailors who arrive at BUD/S training with a competitive PST standard complete the course at a rate of almost 40 percent. “Physical fitness plays a huge role in that individual making it through the [training],” he states. Prior to the new recruiting program’s inception, Navy SEAL candidates had a PST pass and remain-in-program rate of 34 percent. As of December 29, 2006, that rate had increased to 72 percent. The Navy wants a PST pass and remain-in-program rate of at least 80 percent. “I think we can realistically get to 85 percent to 90 percent,” Master Chief Licause says.
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If you do go Marines, then SEAL, at least you'll be able to shoot when you get there.:D

I had two friendly fire incidents in the Marines, both from SEALS, but it happens. What exactly do you want to do in the military, or do you just spend a lot of time playing the game?
 
This book I recommend: The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228 by Dick Couch (a former SEAL) and Cliff Hollenbeck. It seemed to provide a very honest, non-glamours take on the training Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL course. I'm not someone whose been in the military (my best friend was a U.S. Marine, however) but I have read a lot of history books, memoirs, current affairs, etc. about war and the military life, so I know the crap books from the good ones. This one is good. Maybe your library or local bookstore has it.
 
I imagine step one is to start hitting the pool/weight room/running track a lot. You can get dive certified, that couldn't hurt. I wonder about the guys who join up thinking they're going to be billy badass, wash out, and spend the next 4 years scrubbing toilets or something....

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I used to work at a dive shop with a former SEAL, intresting individual. There wasn't an ounce of brag or swag in the guy, very quiet, down to earth. I worked with him for a long time before he said anything about his background.
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I've never met a SEAL (that I know of) but I've noticed the same thing with most vets, especially combat vets, I know. Guys that brag a lot about that sort of thing are usually full of baloney.
 
The pass rate for enlisted sailors in BUD/S training is roughly 25 percent.
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That's for the entire program from the link you gave braddy.

According to the master chief, Navy data reveals that sailors who arrive at BUD/S training with a competitive PST standard complete the course at a rate of almost 40 percent.
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That's the recruits that have a great PST which is like the PFT. The PST is run 1.5 miles, some push-ups, and sit ups. I'm not a swabbie so I don't know the requirements for their PFT. In the Marine Corps a perfect (300) PFT is a minimum of 15 pull-ups, 100 sit-ups in 2min or less, and 3-4mi run (depending on the course) in 18min or less.

Not to mention combat training, swimming, indoctrination, knowledge, etc.

What it doesn't say in that article is that if you fail BUD/S they choose your job for you. It's the same if you enlist for RECON. If you fail the INDOC your MOS is chosen for you subject to the requirements of the Marine Corps/Navy. You could end up being anything from a yeoman (pencil pusher) to a cook.
 
My understanding is the waiting list is long. Get enlisted, and get your name on the list. Train your butt off in the mean time.
 
What it doesn't say in that article is that if you fail BUD/S they choose your job for you. It's the same if you enlist for RECON. If you fail the INDOC your MOS is chosen for you subject to the requirements of the Marine Corps/Navy. You could end up being anything from a yeoman (pencil pusher) to a cook.
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That's not exactly true. SEALS have a rating like any other sailor. You get that school and job before you go to BUDS, same with Recon in the Marines, of which you need a certain MOS just to volunteer, then if you don't make it, you go back to your infantry company, or other qualified MOS.

SEALS can come from about any MOS, and they have to study that job to promote as well as being a gun toting tri athalete.

If you can run 25 miles, do push ups and leg lifts all day long while shivering your ass off in the surf zone, you'll do fine.
 
For RECON that is the case and I recant. You're right with RECON you have to be a Grunt and you can go back to doing that and try again. My mouth (or in this case fingers) was moving faster than my brain. I'm just a ground-pounder afterall. :D

Out of curiousity Mr. H what branch did you serve in?
 
The Marines first, then Guard, then Army.
 
SEAL = Sleep Eat And Lift

That's what they do on deployments at least.
 
So if this young man hits the books, paying attention to math, physics, chemistry, and a foreign language, turns out for wrestling, track, and swim team, he should be ready to go, right?
 
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