The Navy on Sunday recognized the SEAL candidate who died simply hours after finishing what is called Hell Week, a brutal operational coaching part that exams psychological and bodily endurance.
Seaman Kyle Mullen, 24, of New Jersey, died on February 4 at Sharp Coronado Hospital in Coronado, California, the Navy mentioned.
The reason for his demise is beneath investigation. He and one other Navy SEAL trainee had been hospitalized after they each reported experiencing signs of an unknown sickness. The opposite trainee, who hasn't been named, is reportedly in a steady situation.
What Is 'Hell Week'?
Mullen's demise got here shortly after he had accomplished the Navy's Hell Week, which it describes as "the defining occasion" of coaching for the elite Primary Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) class.
It takes place within the third week of first part of coaching, and consists of 5 and a half days of "chilly, moist, brutally tough operational coaching" on fewer than 4 hours of sleep, in keeping with the official web site of the Navy SEALs.
Described because the hardest coaching within the U.S. navy, on common solely 25 p.c of SEAL candidates make it by means of Hell Week.
"Hell Week exams bodily endurance, psychological toughness, ache and chilly tolerance, teamwork, perspective, and your capacity to carry out work beneath excessive bodily and psychological stress, and sleep deprivation," its web site states. "Above all, it exams willpower and need."
SEAL candidates are made to carry out duties similar to operating, swimming, paddling, carrying boats on their heads, doing log PT, sit-ups, push-ups, rolling within the sand, slogging by means of mud, paddling boats and doing surf passage, on little sleep.
The Navy says candidates are educated throughout Hell Week to hold out missions that require them to suppose, lead, make sound choices, and functionally function when they're extraordinarily sleep-deprived, approaching hypothermia, and even hallucinating.
Instructors push and assess trainees to find out who has the bodily capacity and character to avoid wasting their and different teammates' lives.
The grueling coaching week exams psychological power as a lot because it does the bodily aspect.
Rear Adm. H.W. Howard III, the commander of Naval Particular Warfare Command in Coronado, California, issued a press release providing his condolences to Mullen's household.
"We lengthen our deepest sympathies to Seaman Mullen's household for his or her loss," Howard mentioned. "We're extending each type of assist we are able to to the Mullen household and Kyle's BUD/S classmates."
Mullen was a former soccer star for Yale & Monmouth College, and joined the Navy in March 2021. Mullen reported to SEAL coaching in Coronado in July, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
The Navy mentioned he and the opposite hospitalized SEAL candidate did not expertise an accident or uncommon incident throughout their Hell Week coaching, the AP reported. Mullen was not actively coaching on the time of his demise, the Navy mentioned.
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