US Navy SEAL Training - Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S)

This 25 week course is conducted at the Naval Special Warfare Center at Coronado, San Diego CA.

Prior to BUD/S commencing candidates are put through a five week PTRR (Physical Training Rest & Recuperation) and is an opportunity for candidates to brush up on physical fitness while waiting for enough candidates to arrive for organized training to proceed. Back squads or roll backs who have been failed or injured during later training phases are returned to this phase of training to recommence if they are lucky.

BUD/S starts with a 5 week INDOC (Indoctrination Course) which is then followed by three phases:

• physical conditioning – 8 weeks
  
• diving – 8 weeks
  
• land warfare – 9 weeks
  

Officers and enlisted men train together with the emphasis on teamwork as well as strength, stamina and initiative with training cadres split up into “Boat Crews” of approximately 8 men each. Boat Crews train together as a team including log exercise, surf passage and other activities but of all the hurdles one stands tall in the minds of any SEAL candidate – Hell Week.

Hell Week takes place in the third week and it at this point that many students quit the course by “Ringing the Bell” - Hell Week is just that, five and half days of being cold, wet, physically exhausted and pushed beyond any mental limits that students may think they have. With only 4 hours of sleep allowed in the whole week, coupled with the physical and mental duress that students are subjected by continuous physical exertion including timed ocean swims and runs it is no surprise that a fraction of the cadre remains at the end Hell Week. For those who are still standing they will only move with what is known as the Hell Week Shuffle as trainees walk and run while trying to keep salt encrusted clothing away from chafed and sore skin.

BUD/S is an extreme test to weed out those who either do not have the proper motivation or physical and mental aptitude to undergo the remainder of the SEAL training program. There is no fixed curve for pass/fail if you are of a standard that will pass, you will be passed but there has also been at least one BUD/S course where no trainee passed. In keeping with the SEALs never quit attitude, failing BUD/S does not mean you will never become a SEAL it just means you'll have to come back and try again if you are accepted and many SEALs took two attempts at BUD/S before passing.

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