After two days of hearings at Naval Base San Diego, a Navy judge is considering what evidence will be admitted in next month's trial of the sailor charged with setting the fire that destroyed the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard in 2020.
just don t lose sight of it and remind yourself of why you re there and they ll be fine. let s fly at 30,000 feet. this is very significant. what do you think it will actually do for young women out there seeing this around the country who perhaps thought about a military career? i think it will motivate them. what s interesting about this is the whole notion about women in combat units. the army could have argued against women in combat units or done some intermediary thing like sticking women in combat units but not in combat, only stateside, only in training in the united states, don t put them in deployed units and that sort of thing and basically kicked the can down the road about whether or not women ought to be in combat unit . the army, and i think the navy is going to do the same thing with the women going underwater demolition school, has actually leepd forward and said, we re going to obviate discussion
six pull-ups and run 1 1/2 miles in 11 minutes. do you think you could do that? well, if you pass, then you start basic underwater demolition school, or buds as it s called. months of sheer hell. in total, s.e.a.l.s train between 18 and 24 months, with the pinnacle of training coming during what is not surprisingly called hell week. five days in which trainees are constantly cold, hungry, sleep deprived, and, yes, wet. it s designed to push a man past his breaking point and recruits sleep a total of four hours maximum over the entire five days. sounds pretty grueling, doesn t it? most recruits drop out long before this, because they can t take the training, which involves running 15 miles topped with a two-mile open water swim and other intense physical conditioning. the navy said a s.e.a.l. can fire more ammo in one training