SEAL Trainee, Former College Football Player, Dies After ‘Hell Week’
Military
By Matt White | February 07, 2022
A New Jersey man who died just hours after completing so-called “Hell Week” in Navy SEAL selection training was an all-star college football player whose high school coach remembered him as a “great, great kid on the field but even better off the field.”
The Navy identified Kyle Mullen, 24, of Manalapan, New Jersey, as the sailor who died Friday, Feb. 4, after completing the five-day training event known as Hell Week, in which candidates are put through physical training nearly 24 hours a day for five straight days, with almost no sleep or rest. No details on the cause of Mullen’s death were available except that he had completed Hell Week but was soon rushed to an off-post hospital.
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The event, which caps a month of intense physical training and testing, has long been considered the crux of SEAL selection, with attrition rates often over 50%. Those who push through the week still face months of arduous skills and further physical training. But trainees have long understood that their chances of graduating from the course, known as Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, or BUD/S, go way up if they finish Hell Week.
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