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Career in the U.S. Navy SEAL

Career in the U.S. Navy SEAL

Now that the SEALs had been established in the United States Navy, the service began to break them up into specialized groups to deal with various regions of the world and perform specific operations in those regions. There are a total of eight different SEAL Teams operating in the Navy as of now. SEALs operate from Little Creek, Virginia and Coronado, California. The teams in Coronado are 1,3, and 5. Team One operates in Southwest Asia, Team Three operates in the Middle East, and Team 5 operates in North Korea. The teams in Little Creek are 2, 4, 6, and 8. SEAL Team Two operates in Northern Europe, Team Four operates in South America, Team Six is an anti-terrorist force and can be deployed to any "hot zone" in the world, and Team 8 operates in Africa ("Navy Sea Air Land (SEAL) Teams").

Due to the severity of their job and the operations they must go through the men who plan to become future SEALs must meet a great many requirements before they find themselves in this career. A new applicant does not have to have completed high school, however, it is a great determining factor as to whether or not he even makes it to try outs. The main qualification, as far as education is concerned, is that the applicant is a member of the United States Navy and is thoroughly trained in his field of operation. But a general rule would be "...if you have a pulse and are able to move under your own power, you may turn in an application..." After your application has been processed there are many tests you must go through to be taken into SEAL boot camp; this is where the weaker ones begin to be weeded out (Streissguth).

The testing is thorough and the rules are quite straightforward. The candidate must be a male over the age of eighteen but under the age of twenty-eight and a citizen of the United States of America. He must pass a diving physical exam, and his eyesight cannot be worse than 20/40 in one eye and 20/70 in the other eye and must be correctable to 20/20 with no color blindness (SEALs). In the physical testing he is required to perform a standardized workout under a certain time limit; this being as follows: five-hundred yard swim in under twelve and a half minutes using either breast stroke or side stroke, ten minute rest, perform a minimum of 42 push-ups in two minutes, two minute rest, perform a minimum of 50 sit-ups in two minutes, two minute rest, perform a

minimum of 6 pull-ups (there is no time limit), ten minute rest, then run one and a half miles in eleven and a half minutes wearing boots and long pants. In addition to these

physical requirements there is a list of mental and psychological testing that he must go through in order to ...