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What is the purpose of Navy SEAL Hell Week?

What is the purpose of Navy SEAL Hell Week?

Hell Week is the defining event of BUD/S training. It is held early on – in the 3rd week of First Phase – before the Navy makes an expensive investment in SEAL operational training. Hell Week consists of 5 1/2 days of cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training on fewer than four hours of sleep.

What do SEALs go through during Hell Week?

Pretty much every evolution during Hell Week involves the team (or boat crew) carrying their IBS— inflatable boat, small — over their heads. Timed exercises, runs, and crawling through mud flats are interspersed throughout the five-and-a-half days. Only about 25 percent of SEAL candidates make it through Hell Week.

What are the 10 lessons learned in Navy SEAL basic training that will change the world for the better?

McRaven offered 10 lessons to the University of Texas at Austin graduating class. He outlined the lessons of the bed, paddle, heart, cookie, circus, obstacle, shark, dark moment, song, and bell. Each one was a metaphor for an important life area.

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What does it take to become a Navy SEAL?

Training consists of: 12+ months of initial training that includes Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL BUD/S School, Parachute Jump School and SEAL Qualification Training (SQT) 18 months of pre-deployment training and intensive specialized training.

What are the best life lessons?

10 important life lessons we are often taught too late

  1. Walk your own path. People like to judge other people.
  2. Don’t hesitate when you should act.
  3. Experience what you have learned.
  4. Good things don’t come easy.
  5. Never fail to try more.
  6. Take care of your health early.
  7. Make every moment count.
  8. Live and let live.

What have you learned from SEAL training?

10 Life Lessons Learned in Navy Seal Training

  • If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
  • If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
  • If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not the size of their flippers.