Navy SEAL Requirements
SEAL training
Entering training to become a Navy SEAL is voluntary. Anyone can volunteer, and officers and enlisted men train side by side. In order to enter SEAL training, however, they do have to meet certain requirements. Those wishing to volunteer for SEAL training have to:
be an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy
be a man (women aren't allowed to be Navy SEALs)
be 28 or younger (although waivers for 29- and 30-year-olds are possible)
have good vision -- at least 20/40 in one eye and 20/70 in the other (corrective surgery is also possible)
be a U.S. citizen
pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)Hooyah! -- the war cry of the Navy SEALs -- becomes an automatic response for SEALs during the torturous SEAL training. While there may be other variations in meaning, "hooyah" generally means "yes," "understood," and "I'm not letting this evolution get the best of me." (Evolution is the term used for each event in the training schedule.)
SEAL training is brutal. It takes over 30 months to train a Navy SEAL to the point at which he will be ready for deployment. The SEALs that emerge are ready to handle pretty much any task they could be called on to perform, including diving, combat swimming, navigation, demolitions, weapons, and parachuting. The training pushes them to the limit both mentally and physically in order to weed out those who may not be able to successfully complete the demanding missions and operations with which SEALs are faced. The types of stresses they endure during BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) are the same stresses they will endure as SEALs. If they can't withstand it when lives aren't on the line, chances are good they won't be able to withstand it when lives are at stake.
From day one in SEAL training, trainees are taught the importance of teamwork. Focus is not on the individual. The fact that the SEALs have never left another SEAL behind on a mission is a testament to this belief system. Throughout their training, they learn more and more why teamwork is necessary in the type of work they will soon be entering: SEALs are performing tasks that may not be possible for a single man to accomplish, but can be possible for a team composed of men who have the same training and skills. Their success depends on what they can do together as a team.
Pass a stringent physical screening test that includes the following procedure:
swim 500 yards in 12.5 minutes or less, followed by a 10-minute rest
do 42 push-ups in under two minutes, followed by a two-minute rest
do 50 sit-ups in under two minutes, followed by a two-minute rest
do six pull-ups, followed by a 10-minute rest
run 1.5 miles in boots and long pants in less than 11.5 minutes.
The fourth week of Basic Conditioning is known as Hell Week. This is when students train for five days and five nights solid with a maximum total of four hours of sleep. Hell Week begins at sundown on Sunday and ends at the end of Friday. During this time, trainees face continuous training evolutions. During Hell Week, trainees get four meals a day -- sometimes MREs, but usually hot meals of unlimited quantities. Eating hot food is a substitute for being warm and dry. It gives a needed psychological boost to tired trainees, many of whom are nearly sleeping while they eat.
Pretty much every evolution during Hell Week involves the team (or boat crew) carrying their boat -- inflatable rubber Zodiacs -- over their heads. Timed exercises, runs, and crawling through mud flats are interspersed throughout the five-and-a-half days. The largest number of trainees drops out during Hell Week. This extreme training is critical, though. SEALs on missions must be able to operate efficiently, oblivious to sub-zero temperatures and their own physical comfort. Their lives, as well as the lives of others, may depend on it.
Listening closely to orders is another critical element of training during BUD/S, particularly during Hell Week when brains are getting fuzzy from lack of sleep. The instructor may purposely leave out part of an order to see who is really listening. For example, during a series of orders requiring trainee teams to do exercises using a 300-pound (136-kg) log, he may leave out mention of the log for one order. Team leaders who are paying attention will catch this, and their team gets a small break in the difficulty of the task by performing it without having to carry the log. The instructor might reward the team by allowing it to stand by the fire and rest, or sit and sleep for a few minutes.
2007-03-07 10:39:24
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answered by Brite Tiger 6
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There is no way for you to truly know unless you have been a SEAL. All you can go by is your guy feeling...if you think he isn't a SEAL, then that's all you need, and it's all that you can prove.
There is no need to continue spamming this question....
In any case, here is my same reply as before....
it sounds to me like you really don't need the answer to this question.....there are too many people out there that are posing to be something they aren't, and with this kind of question, you appear to be someone trying to get into that clique. If you want the answer, join the Navy, and get into the Navy SEALs program successfully. That is how you will get your answer.
2007-03-07 10:35:07
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answered by Scott R 1
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If you are within 100 miles of San Diego, just take him to Coronado and ask him to introduce you to a few of the guys. I wish I could remember the name of the SEAL hangout there. They loved posers.
2007-03-07 10:36:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Don't let it bug you! The claim to be a navy seal is bigtime. Its irritating especially if one has to know that someone knows someone that knows a seal. If their not a seal they like to "stir things up". Its okay.
2007-03-07 10:49:59
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answered by Anonymous
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Ask to see his DD 214. He would have received it upon being discharged and it will show what he did while enlisted in the Navy.
2007-03-07 10:37:11
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answered by sw_baby_james 2
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Really fixated eh?
Get a bind proxy, go onto darpa net. Enter his name. Get off, quickly. Wait, if nothing happens then he wasn't a seal. If plain fords start gathering, change your isp.
2007-03-07 10:47:07
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answered by Wonka 5
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Nothing worse than a phony vet, sorta like GW Bush.
Here's a site with lots of tech data:
http://navy.com/messageboard/forum.jspa?forumID=10
it's a message board for seals.
ask him which BUD class he was in. if he delays for a second, he's a liar, nobody ever forgets their class #.
2007-03-07 10:39:06
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answered by gw_bushisamoron 4
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www.military.com free website will list him if he is a current military member.
2007-03-07 11:25:38
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answered by Anonymous
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