How do i become a U.S Navy SEAL?
I know that the first step in this is joining the U.S Navy. Then you have to take recruit training. So, after you finish all your training, do you become a SEAL right away or is there more than that? I also want to join when i am 17. Any advice or information from a former SEAL would be highly appreciated.
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The closest is Michael.
The answers to your question are yes and no. Yes... after about a year or so of training you can be selected to be SEAL. But no... your training is never completed.
Seal Challenge in your contract. Once in Boot Camp at Great Lakes, that equates to a little more PT than the rest of the recruits. After Boot Camp, if you're still interested, there's another eight weeks of preparation... still at Great Lakes. After that, if you're still able to walk, and are still motivated, you go to Coronado for five weeks of "Indoc." If you can still stand, and are still driven, you begin BUD/S. Once in BUD/S, the dropout/washout rate is about 80%. That means that, when you're standing in formation waiting for the fun and games to begin, look at the guy in front of you, the one behind you, the one to your right and the one to your left. The odds are that at least four of you won't be standing there at the end.
BUD/S is roughly six month long. Then there's about another six months to a year of training prior to being selected.
The guy who suggested you join the Marines is 100% wrong. The only branch with a path to SEAL is Coast Guard. If you start in any other branch, you have to do an inter-service transfer. Even with the Coast Guard path, during the period you're SEAL, or working to become one, you're Navy. After the commitment... I think it's six or eight years, those who came from the Coast Guard have the option to return to the Coast Guard. I believe that's the Coast Guard's hope.
Advice? Realize that any requirements you see posted... anywhere... are minimum requirements. They don't guarantee you'll become SEAL, making them just makes the Navy have to come up with other reasons to disqualify you from the program. Push yourself to excel in everything you do... school, sports, chores around the house, church activities... everything. Don't be satisfied with second best... SEALs aren't. Get rid of ideas like, "I don't know if..." and "I don't think I can..." and replace them with "Consider it done." Maybe one day that will change to "Aye, Aye, Sir." Stay out of trouble... any kind of trouble... don't even associate with people who are apt to get into trouble. Build your strengths and eliminate your weaknesses. I don't think the Navy so much trains men to be SEAL. I think the Navy finds the SEALs and makes them prove they have what it takes.
People who read stuff on the internet will tell you things that are only partially true. They're based on fact, but interpreted by people who. Being SEAL isn't all about being a muscle-bound knuckle-dragger. A lot of the Enlisted guys have college degrees. They will tell you it's a mental thing without really realizing what that means. I don't believe there's any way to prepare mentally for SEAL training. It's supposed to come as something of a systemic shock.
All you can do to "prepare," is work to become the best human being you can possibly be. When you get to Coronado, you'll find out if your best is good enough.
Become A Seal
Go talk to a recruiter. It's a big step, but let them know that you're just looking and wanting to get some info.
There are a lot of ways to become a SEAL: the Navy's Challenge program, which puts you on the fast track (and gives and enlistment bonus), specializing in something other than the SEALs, such as the Hospital Corps, and then striking out for SEALs (which requires recommendations and the need in the SEALs for your specialty), among others. Your best bet is to talk to a recruiter or check out the Navy's website.
This site has a lot of the requirements and training information: http://www.navy.com/about/navylife/onduty/seals/be...
Good luck, and HOOYAH!!!
Ok, well when you sign up for the Navy you get to have choices on what career fields to go into. You can choose to enlist on a SEAL contract and another MOS. A SEAL contract guarentee's you a shot at BUD's, which is more or less SEAL selection (note just cause you complete BUD's doesn't make you a SEAL). The other MOS guarentees that if you fail BUD's you get to train in that MOS, which is a good thing cause 85% don't make it. BUD's is broken down into 3 phases.
Phase 1: Conditioning Phase
This is basically hell on Earth. Obstacle courses, surf passages, 5 mile swims, and 4 mile runs just to get to the chow hall. The infamous Hell week is in this phase. This phase is where most drop, its all about who can take the pain.
Phase 2: Dive Phase
Here you learn the basics of diving and various water skills. This basically trains you in the various diving rigs you would use as a SEAL. This phase also has high dropout rates as many people fail the math portion of the diving test.
Phase 3: Weapons and Ground Phase
This is all about getting you aquainted with your rifle and small unit tactics as well as individual marksmanship. Not too many people drop out here but it can happen
Those phases will take up about 6 months. After you complete that you will have graduated BUD's but you are not a SEAL. BUD's graduates must complete another 6 months of training with a SEAL team before they are awarded the trident and get to call themselves a Navy SEAL. You can also apply within the fleet as well. Say you don't get a SEAL contract, you can always ask to apply to the program. I recoment reading the book "The Warrior Elite" by Dick Couch. Dick Couch is a former SEAL himself and follows around BUD's class 228 as they go through all 3 phases of BUD's. Its extremely detailed and a good read. He provides some very interesting backround on a lot of stuff since he went through it himself.
http://www.sealswcc.com/
Q: What are the basic requirements of becoming a SEAL or SWCC operator?
A: A candidate must be a male U.S. citizen between the ages of 17 and 28 (age waivers are possible) who can qualify with the following requirements: pass the PST,have vision no worse than 20/40 in the best eye and 20/70 in the worst eye - both correctible to 20/20, not be color blind, pass the ASVAB with the required scores, and be eligible for a SECRET-level security clearance.
You sign up for a seal contract and you have to pick a mos but the navy doesn't call it that they call it something else, just cant remember. Pretty much you just pick your job that you want to do. I would prefer navy corpsman. Than you go to basic training and do your mos training after that. You go to pre indoctrination, indoctrination, buds, airborne school, sqt, kodiak island, than your an actual navy seal. But your the new guy in your new squad and it takes months to years to be an actual SEAL.
Well first of all, you must be physically perfect - 20/20 vision, good hearing, good athletic ability, etc. or you will not be accepted into the program. The training alone usually takes over a year, and to become a SEAL requires another 56-week specialized program. And then, after you finish all the required specialized training (that is, assuming that you are ABLE to finish), you'll do another 18 months of training in the field with other SEAL soldiers.
Join the Marines first and then request a slot at the seal school.
Buy and read this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivor-Eyewitness-Acc...
It is by Marcus Luttrell who was the lone survivor of Operation Redwing in Afghanistan. PO Luttrell goes into great detail about what it took to become a SEAL directly after Navy boot camp.
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