Note: The SEALs don't have recruiters...they have motivators (see last line). Trust me, those SEAL Instructors could "motive" a rock. There have been classes of close to 100 men...and not one graduate. Just couldn't do it. Good thing for them that all they have to do to quit is to ring the bell (literally) three times, and they're on their way back to wherever they came from...usually, the regular Navy. More, nobody thinks badly of them. Actually, they're given great credit for even trying to make it through the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training course. It's that tough. Psychologists have gone to the base to study them, to try and discover just what type of man is going to be able to make it through BUD/S, all to no avail. As one of the SEAL Instructors told me...after he'd been an instructor for 10 years, "The mind rules the body." With them, it certainly does.
From The Virginian-Pilot:
Navy SEALs looking for new recruits
The Virginian-Pilot © June 25, 2007
NORFOLK
Navy SEALs will conduct seminars for sailors about joining the special-warfare community from 9:30 to
11:30 a.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at the waterfront athletic complex, building
Q-80, at Norfolk Naval Station.
The two-hour sessions will introduce sailors to the career opportunities for SEALs and Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen.
Navy leadership has made recruiting SEALs its top priority because of heavy wartime deployments and a desire to increase the elite force.
The SEALs also will conduct a physical screening test for applicants Thursday. For more information, call SEAL motivator Mark Courrier at (757) 763-3005.
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