What does it take to become a Navy Seal?
The Stamps – by air, land and sea with no man left behind. These elite troops are the phantom forces that get the job done right the first time.
Entry requirements for Navy Seals are rigorous and training is even more difficult. Applicant must be male and active duty member of the Navy with adequate preparatory training. (Chaplains and secretaries do not need to submit an application). Applicant must be twenty-eight years old or younger, and must have vision that is no worse than at least 20/40 in one eye and 20/70, and can be corrected to 20/20 without any color blindness. After the paper test, applicants undergo a rigorous physical test, including:
o Swim 500 yards in 12.5 minutes or less, followed by a 10 minute break
o Do 42 push-ups in less than two minutes, followed by a two-minute break.
oDo 50 sit-ups in less than two minutes, followed by a two-minute break.
oDo six pull-ups, followed by a 10-minute break
oRun 1.5 miles in boots and long pants in less than 11.5 minutes
While Navy Seals cover every possible angle of attack, their specialty is water. During training, new recruits will learn and must complete:
Or fifty meters of swimming underwater
otie a knot underwater
perform a drowning test
Or take a basic life-saving test.
oswim twelve hundred meters in a pool with fins in forty-five minutes
Oswim a mile in a bay with fins in fifty minutes
Oswim a mile in the ocean with fins in fifty minutes
oswim a mile and a half in the ocean with fins in seventy minutes
Oswim two miles in the ocean with fins in ninety-five minutes
All of this is during the first phase of training. It is assumed that at the end of the hellish week they will be able to swim two thousand meters in the condition pool without fins. They will swim a mile and a half in a bay at night, and will have to reduce their two-mile swim in the ocean to eighty-five minutes.
During the second phase of training, the Navy Seals must cut another five minutes from their two-mile swim in the ocean, bringing it to eighty minutes. They will also swim five and a half miles in the ocean, and then five and a half miles, both with fins.
In the third phase of training, Navy Seals can swim the two miles in the ocean in 75 minutes. They will be able to run fourteen miles, complete the obstacle course in ten minutes, and run four miles in boots in half an hour.
If you still think you want to be a Navy Seal, head over to your recruiting office and chat with some Naval Officers. There are only 2,280 Navy Seals on active duty, are you ready to do one more?
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