JOCKO WILLINK WARNS AGAINST NERFING ‘BRUTAL’ SEAL TRAINING
October 12, 2022 ·Mac Caltrider
Jocko Willink served for over 20 years in the SEAL teams, including during the Battle of Ramadi. Composite by Coffee or Die Magazine.
Retired Navy SEAL officer Jocko Willink published an essay this week warning against altering the severe nature of SEAL training in the wake of Seaman Kyle Mullen’s Feb. 4 death. Mullen died after successfully completing the notoriously difficult “Hell Week” of BUD/S training.
In the essay, published Wednesday, Oct. 12, by FOX News, Willink, a Silver Star recipient and book author, describes “conducting, directing, and overseeing vast amounts of brutal training” during his career as a SEAL. He details some of the SEALs’ desert land warfare training in which trainees simulate the rigors of operating in foreign deserts with the full weight of their gear and equipment, all while enduring explosions, CS gas, and simulated firefights with paintballs. He notes that this particular facet of the BUD/s course is but one small portion of a much larger conditioning process. Furthermore, he cautions that, despite its brutal nature, the training pales in comparison to combat and making it less grueling would ultimately weaken the SEAL teams.
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