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Subject: Secret SEAL Standards Revealed
James Dunnigan    12/10/2004 12:18:54 AM

No one really noticed, but the pass rate of those in training to be U.S. Navy
SEAL commandos has gone way up. But the navy isn?t worried about the quality
slipping. One of the rarely discussed, or even mentioned, aspects of the SEAL
training was that the number passing in each class depended more on how many
SEALs the navy needed, than on the quality of the candidates. The final cut was
not made randomly. Increasingly difficult (like sitting in the cold California
surf at night until enough people passed out) tasks would be assigned to the
students until enough "failed" to leave the magic number of candidates the navy
had jobs for. One could say that this was simply a way to get the best of the
best, or grading on the curve. And many SEALs accepted it as a reasonable way to
select elite fighters. But the fact remains that many qualified trainees were
flunked. Now, everyone that qualifies, gets to be a SEAL. The navy is expanding
the SEAL force and needs all the qualified people it can get. It?s doubtful that
there will be any noticeable decline in the quality of SEAL commandos.
 
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Old Grunt    RE:Secret SEAL Standards Revealed   12/10/2004 4:20:01 PM
Having worked with SEALS on several occasions I would say that you are correct, there will be no decline in performance (or attitude for that matter).
 
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BlueLight    RE:Secret SEAL Standards Revealed   12/14/2004 9:27:37 AM
i agree. people were getting turned down for no reason. they were qualified. it is a good thing that the Navy is expanding. we need more qualified men for more missions.
 
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boer    RE:Secret SEAL Standards Revealed   1/14/2005 12:59:11 PM
This sounds more as a very bad way to train special forces. (but then us spec ops aren't the best in the world ,a lot of muscle but the condition is very bad)
 
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smitty237    RE:Secret SEAL Standards Revealed   1/14/2005 6:58:30 PM
You might want to eloborate a little bit, Boer. We will forgive the fact that English is not your first language, but you need to back up your post a little bit with some facts. The point of Mr. Dunnigan's original post is that in the past many qualified SEAL candidates were flunked because there were not enough jobs for them. This happened in other SPEC OP forces as well, I'm sure (both here and abroad). With the expansion of SPEC OP forces in the US military, more qualified candidates will pass muster and be accepted to these units. There is always a chance that bad apples will make it into some units, but such individuals will not last long.
 
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