Always lead from the front. Be motivated and ready to work as a team. Follow orders but provide feedback so your team can be better at overcoming obstacles that you will face. Never be late! Prepare for the long term, not the short term.
Too many people lose focus early on their training and quit. It would be similar to training for a 10K race and running a Marathon by accident. You have to be mentally focused on running the Marathon - in this case a six month "marathon. Weekly Physical Tests. The four mile timed runs are weekly and occur on the beach - hard packed sand next to the water line. They are tough, but not bad if you prepare properly. The 2 mile ocean swims are not bad either if you are used to swimming with fins when you arrive.
The obstacle course will get you too if you are not used to climbing ropes and doing pullups. Upperbody strength is tested to the max with this test. During Hellweek, you get four meals a day - every six hours! The trick to making it through Hellweek is just make it to the next meal.
Break up the week into several six hour blocks of time. In a couple of days you will be on "auto-pilot" and it will be all down hill from there. Place This on Your Refrigerator 8. Push-ups are another part of life for SEAL trainees. SEALS have to be able to do pull-ups — lots of them. Hell Week comes during the fourth week of training. SEAL candidates sleep about four hours per night and complete about 20 hours of physical training per day. It's important to stay hydrated during training, which is designed to push candidates to their breaking points.
Candidates are expected to start off as strong swimmers, as they'll have to deal with extremely stressful situations underwater during training, including so-called "drown-proofing. SEAL candidates also undergo scuba training. Trainees learn about underwater knot tying. There is an academic component to SEAL training, as well.
SEAL candidates also head to parachute training. In this grueling five-and-a-half day stretch, each candidate sleeps only about four total hours but runs more than miles and does physical training for more than 20 hours per day.
Successful completion of Hell Week truly defines those candidates who have the commitment and dedication required of a SEAL. Second Phase, the combat diving phase, lasts seven weeks. During this phase, candidates become basic combat swimmers and learn open and closed-circuit diving.
Successful Second Phase candidates demonstrate a high level of comfort in the water and the ability to perform in stressful and often uncomfortable environments. In January , the first SEAL teams were commissioned to conduct unconventional warfare, counterguerrilla warfare and clandestine operations in maritime and riverine environments. Since the close of the Vietnam conflict, the everchanging world situation and increased operational tasking have prompted the expansion of SEAL teams in number, size and capabilities.
These units are organized, trained and equipped to conduct special operations, unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense and clandestine operations in maritime and riverine environments. These highly trained specialists are deployed worldwide in support of fleet and national operations.
The wide range of tasks performed by naval special warfare and their outstanding combat records have earned an enduring and highly respected reputation.
Find Available Special Operations Opportunities. Naval special warfare extends a personal challenge to those interested individuals like yourself. This program will push you to your limits until you are hard and strong, both physically and mentally, and ready for the adventure of a lifetime in the SEAL teams. Freefall parachuting at 10, feet into the ocean at night, traveling by small rubber boat for miles, conducting a mission, then traveling 30 miles out to sea to rendezvous with a submarine is a typical mission for the SEALs.
It is an adventure most people can experience only by reading a book. So if you are ready for a challenge and an adventure, the Navy has just the training to test your mettle. You are the one who has to prepare to give your all every day.
Good luck. First Phase is nine weeks in length. Continued physical conditioning in the areas of running, swimming and calisthenics grow increasingly harder as the weeks progress. Students will participate in weekly four-mile timed runs in boots and timed obstacle courses, swim distances up to two miles wearing fins in the ocean and learn small-boat seamanship. The first five weeks of First Phase prepare you for the sixth week, better known as "Hell Week. This week is designed as the ultimate test of one's physical and mental motivation while in First Phase.
Hell Week proves to those who make it that the human body can do 10 times the amount of work the average man thinks possible. During Hell Week, you will learn the value of cool-headedness, perseverance and, above all, teamwork. The remaining three weeks are devoted to teaching various methods of conducting hydrographic surveys and how to conduct a hydrographic chart. After completing the First Phase, you have proven to the instructors that you are motivated to continue more in-depth training.
The diving phase lasts seven weeks. During this period, physical training continues, but the times are lowered for the four-mile runs, two-mile swims and the obstacle course. An emphasis is placed on long-distance underwater dives, with the goal of training students to become basic combat divers and using swimming and diving techniques as a means of transportation from their launch point to their combat objective.
The demolitions, reconnaissance and land warfare phase lasts nine weeks. Physical training continues to become more strenuous as the run distances increase and the minimum passing times are lowered for the runs, swims and obstacle course. The Third Phase concentrates on teaching land navigation, small-unit tactics, patrolling techniques, rappelling, infantry tactics and military explosives. The final five weeks of Third Phase are spent on San Clemente Island in California, where students apply techniques acquired throughout training in a practical environment.
During this course, they participate in intense instruction in diving medicine and medical skills called D Special Operations Medical Sergeant Course. It is a week course where students receive training in burns, gunshot wounds and trauma. Upon reenlistment, members may be ordered to additional training and another SDV or SEAL command, where they will complete the remainder of a five-year sea tour.
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