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Posted on Feb 8, 2022

Should Navy SEAL 'Hell Week' practices be reconsidered after the recent tragedy?

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On Sunday, Navy officials announced SEAL candidate, 24-year-old Kyle Mullen, died after the highly demanding training session known as 'Hell Week' and left another sailor hospitalized. This isn't the first incident during or connected to Hell Week.

Hell Week is meant to test the physical and mental determination to perform in the most difficult conditions; it's why Navy SEALs are recognized as some of the highest trained members of the U.S. military special operations forces.

Do you think 'Hell Week' needs to be reconsidered or is it a necessary risk?

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Maj Robert Thornton

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Should we stop flight operations at sea because an F-35 crashed? Risk is inherent to the military life style.

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PO1 Lyndon Thomas

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Exactly.

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LTC George Morgan

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As a Medic, my responsibility was to look after the safety and well-being of the soldiers whose care was entrusted to me. For a period of sixteen years, I was attached to an Infantry Regiment, thus it was a necessary requirement that I should learn their skills. Therefore, I feel that I am professionally qualified to agree with Maj. Robert Thornton that "Risk is inherent to the military lifestyle".
Hell-week, is akin to the final SAS exercise, it is the final weeding by which only the greatest graduate, and their training, I believe saves more lives than would otherwise be the case, in the field.

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