Want to be a SEAL? Tough is just a start (35% make it through 6-month training)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Want to be a SEAL? Tough is just a start

By Eve Tahmincioglu

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42884153/ns/business-careers/

It’s good to be a Navy SEAL right now. The elite sailors are being showered with praise for their successful operation in Pakistan that resulted in the killing of Osama bin Laden this week.

“If the world ever learns the names of those Navy SEALs who took out Bin Laden, those guys will never have to buy their own drinks again,” said @acarvi in a tweet Monday that captured the sentiments of many Americans.

“It’s not a Rambo movie,” said Jeff Everage, a former SEAL who spent most of the 1990s in South America in anti-drug operations and then went on to Iraq until he retired in 2003. “Instead of focusing on the glamorous outcomes in the news I would focus on what it takes to become a Navy SEAL, the mental and physical demands.”



An instructor puts Navy SEAL candidates through a Hell Week training drill in this 2003 file photo taken in Coronado, Calif. Sailors are pushed to their physical and mental limits in the six-month initial training.

[bluesbassman]

1. My experience has been that every SEAL I've ever met was humble about it.

Never knew one that bragged about it. On the contrary, they are pretty tight lipped.

Thanks to them and all that serve and have served our country.

[glinda]

2. Except Jessie Ventura.

[bluesbassman]

3. IIRC, Ventura was not a SEAL but was a Underwater Demolition Team member.

Although the UDT's merged with the SEALs, that didn't happen until 10 years after Ventura left the service. Different training and missions when Ventura served. Yeah, he can call himself a SEAL, but that don't make it so.

spelling edit. bbm

[glinda]

5. Thanks! I did not know that.

[CelticThunder]

4. Whoopty doo.

[the_chinuk]

6. Watch this dude take down Phony SEALs

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