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All US Special Operators Train for Combat Diving, but Navy SEALs Take it to Another Level
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Water covers more than 70 percent of the earth, making maritime operations a must-have capability for any competent military.
Besides having the strongest Navy in the world, the U.S. military possesses potent maritime special-operations resources, with the majority of its special-operations units having some combat diving capability.
Marine Raiders and Reconnaissance Marines have different training pipelines but go through the same dive school in Panama City.
A Navy special amphibious reconnaissance corpsman, left, and a reconnaissance Marine in underwater gear during a Marine combat diving course in Okinawa, May 20, 2020 (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Savannah Mesimer)
US Navy/PO1 Abe McNatt
For aspiring Navy SEALs, the selection process, known as Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S), is a six-month series of challenges for their skills and endurance.
Maybe the most trying period is Hell Week, a six-day gauntlet of constant exertion that shrinks their ranks and reveals what they re made of.
Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training is a six-month selection process and the gateway into the Navy s SEAL Teams.
Broken into three phases (First Phase, Second Phase, Third Phase), BUD/S has an attrition rate of between 70% and 85%. The complete SEAL pipeline attrition rate from the moment someone walks into the recruiter s office to the end of advanced qualification training is over 90%.