After you successfully pass the Navy SEAL physical screening test (PST), then you can become an SO rate. You have to sign up with the Delayed Entry Program as another rating besides SO. Rumor control: I want to sign up for a Special Operator (SO) rating, but the recruiter says I cannot and have to choose a regular Navy rating when I do the Delayed Entry Program. I feel wrong even giving this one a slot in my rumor list. Once again, this one is ridiculous and never happens. But, I have heard this at least a dozen times by people who are not SEALs. This is another one that is tough to answer without calling someone stupid. Rumor control: I hear they give you a puppy, and you have to kill it before you graduate.Ĭome on. There are a series of skills to perform for the 30-minute test to include bobbing, floating, swimming, flipping and diving underwater. But they do tie your feet together and hands behind your back, but you do this in a pool. There is a test called drownproofing maybe this is where the idea you have to drown to graduate came from. Rumor control: I hear they tie you up and throw you in the ocean. You do have to swim a six-mile ocean swim, but it is about 100 yards from shore and parallel to shore the whole time. Rumor control: I hear they drop you 10 miles out to sea, and you have to swim back to Coronado. There have been people who were saved from drowning or drowned in the past 50 years, but it is not a requirement for graduation. I don't even know how to answer this one when I get asked it without using profanity. Rumor control: You have to drown and they bring you back to life before you can graduate.Ĭome on. Navy SEAL/EOD mentors were added in each recruiting district, and there is pre-BUDS training after boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois. In my opinion, the Navy has gone out of its way to make the pre-training cycle better for recruits. However, the training does offer the candidate a taste of SEAL training, and the pre-training will either 100% motivate or 100% demotivate a person toward or away from the SEAL program. The Navy does not want to see a recruit get injured before enlisting. As a guest instructor at a few of these camps, I can say that the Navy does not make these events a mandatory part of your pre-training. I have heard in the past few months that some Navy SEAL recruits think that it is mandatory to attend a Navy SEAL-style training camp, complete with a 24-hour Hell Week simulation.
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