Hello guys!
I hope you all would be fine and in good health. Last whole week, i was busy and couldn't write any blog. Now, i have time to write one. I'm not going to bore you with my whole week things, that i have been doing. Let's come onto the point. The blog, i choose for my blog is Navy Seal Hell week. In this blog, i'm going to mention a few aspects of the Navy Seal Hell week.
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Hell Week is one of the defining event of BUD/S training, Bud/s stand for Basic Underwater demolition/Seal. This training is usually held early in about of the 3rd week of the training First Phase before the Navy candidates makes an expensive investment in SEAL operational training. Hell Week usually consists of 5 1/2 days of cold, wet, brutally or rigorously difficult operational training with a gift of fewer than four hours of sleep in the training process. Hell Week tests not only the physical endurance, but also mental toughness, their pain and cold tolerance, their ability to work as team, their attitude and their ability to perform work efficiently under high physical and mental stress, and sleep deprivation with a sleep less than four hours, as i mentioned above.
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Above all, hell week is a tests of their determination and desire. As for the average, only 25% of SEAL candidates ever make it through Hell Week and their training is considered to be the toughest training in the U.S. Military. When candidates achieve the rank of navy seal, it often become their greatest achievement of their lives, and with it they realize that they are able to do 20X more than they ever think or thought that it was possible. It become a defining moment for the candidates, as they reach back to when in combat, They have something is mind that they will never, ever quit, or let a teammate down.
Over the years researched have been conducted on the candidates who make it through the hell week, to know what has been done to become a Seal, and studied some common trait in those individuals, and they end up without definitive answer. The candidates who make it through are not necessarily the largest or even the strongest of all men, neither they are the fastest swimmers, but in fact they are those who got burning desire to be SEALs.
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Trainees are constantly in motion they are running, are swimming, or maybe paddling, they might be carrying heavy boats on their heads, sometimes doing log PT, sit-ups and push-ups. Being still can be challenging for the candidates, when you’re standing interminably in their training formation, they are soaking wet on the beach, they have to stand in water up to their waist in the water, they have to face the cold ocean wind cutting through them. They are covered in mud, mud covers uniforms, their hands, faces and everything except their eyes.
Candidates perform evolutions that require them to think, lead, make sound decisions, and functionally operate when they are extremely sleep-deprived, approaching hypothermia, and even hallucinating. While in the training, trainees get plenty of food to eat, some candidates are so fatigued that they even fall asleep while eating in their food. Others candidates fall asleep, some of them while paddling their boats and they have to be pulled out of the water by their teammates.
Safety is always on standby. Medical personnel are on hand during all training to take care of candidates in case of emergencies and to monitor the exhausted trainees to make them fit for further training. Throughout Hell Week, Instructors criticize candidates with their bull horns and they entice trainees to quit training, they are mimicking their inner voice to tell them that you have to give in to your physical pain. The Instructors are their to make it easy for candidates, even honorable for students to come out of the cold, all they have to do is simply ring the bell that can signals as a defeat, and enjoy delicious foods in front of your suffering former classmates.
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Because of the reason, that the SEAL community is so small, the Instructors know that the candidates who don't give up are the one, they are likely to serve in future combat operations. Therefore, these candidates get tested rigorously and instructors critically assess which trainees have the Seal Ethos which is based on their will to serve the country, their physical ability and character to save their and other teammates lives.
SEAL candidates most of them commonly have the mistaken belief that training of Hell Week and BUD/S are all about physical strength and endurance. Actually, Their training is as much mental as it is physical, which they don't believe. When trainees make up their mind that they just decide that they are too cold, or too sandy, or too tired to go on. It’s their minds who is playing game with them, and want them, that they give up, It's their mind who give up on them not their bodies.
While Instructors got the ability that they could get anyone to quit if they wanted to, well that’s not definitely what they’re after. They apply extreme physical and mental stress on the candidates and then they sow the seeds of doubt that somehow they are not able, and they continue giving them tempting invitations to trainees to quit. It’s up to the individual candidate that they either turn it into increased resolve and suffer more, or decide on his own to quit. The minority of the candidates who make it through Hell Week, get to go on to graduate BUD/S training and then ultimately become SEALs. Candidates have survived the rigorous training , after that they feel literally, that they are unstoppable and that they can do anything.
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This were some of the aspect that i know, i hope that you liked the blog and thank you for reading the blog. And if you like the blog, i'll be back with another blog shortly.
