Navy SEALs’ Training: How to Fix

Last Tuesday, the New York Times published a report detailing “brutality, cheating, and drugs” in the U.S. Navy’s SEALs, focusing on the issue of recruits using performance enhancers (PEDs) such as steroids to overcome the course. Kyle Mullen, a phenomenal athlete and student, died at Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) after days of coughing up blood. It was only after his death that the Navy discovered his PED use. The article’s author employs Mullen’s death to highlight the SEAL teams’ ethically gray training program and its excesses.

Dave Philipps reports for the Times:

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Luther Ray Abel

Luther Ray Abel is an Associate Editor for National Review. A veteran of the U.S. Navy, Luther is a proud native of Sheboygan, Wis.

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Last Tuesday, the New York Times published a report detailing “brutality, cheating, and drugs” in the U.S. Navy’s SEALs, focusing on the issue of recruits using performance enhancers (PEDs) such as steroids to overcome the course. Kyle Mullen, a phenomenal athlete and student, died at Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S) after days of coughing up blood. It was only after his death that the Navy discovered his PED use. The article’s author employs Mullen’s death to highlight the SEAL teams’ ethically gray training program and its excesses.

Dave Philipps reports for the Times: