How Spec Ops training can kill

As was reported in multiple news outlets on February 5th, 2022, a trainee in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training recently died shortly after completing the rigorous 5‑day period of First Phase training known as Hell Week. Per news reports, the trainee was hospitalized a short time — possibly 2 hours — after Hell Week ended, along with a second trainee who was still being treated as of the writing of this article. The trainee who perished was identified as 24-year-old U.S. Navy Seaman Kyle Mullen, from New Jersey.

In addition, U.S. Army Special Forces training has also reportedly suffered two fatalities recently, although no details have yet been publicly released, and those fatalities, as well as their causes, cannot be confirmed by this author.

While all branches take safety precautions very seriously, the nature of special operations work, and therefore its training, is inherently dangero …

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