You are at the bottom of an eight foot pool with a tank, breather and fins. It is pool camp at BUDS or the pool competency segment of BUDS. The pool competency is to the dive phase what hell week is to the first phase. Hell week is five days - Sunday through Friday night. [...]
If you described a SEAL as hard, he would take that as a compliment and most likely agree. Hard in terms of being a SEAL means that he is strong mentally and refuses to accept mediocrity. He has attained a level of mental toughness grasped by only a few. His mind views pain as weakness [...]
As a SEAL you will find yourself in frigidly cold waters, muddy grass that you will call a bed or jogging with enough weight in gear that would halt the legs of mere mortals to a crawl. In BUDS, the difference between the men who will become SEALS and those who will ring the bell [...]
