Seaman Kyle Mullen, 24, had just pushed himself through the most physically intense period in the SEALs’ famously arduous boot camp when fellow candidates discovered him in his room, blue in …
was found unresponsive hours after completing the training program’s “Hell Week.”
But Mullen had powered through in the middle of winter, enduring a five-and-a-half day stretch in which SEAL candidates are allowed just four hours of sleep each night, run a total of more than 200 miles, swim in the frigid ocean and complete other physical training for more than 20 hours per day.The captain says he laid his concerns about a rising number of SEAL candidates dropping out of the training program he took over in 2020 and his efforts to conduct a study to identify the cause.
“Capt. Geary maintained a view that the high attrition was caused, among other reasons, by the current generation having less mental resilience, or being less tough,” said the report, which was unsealed last week. “No, no, we need to look for their strengths and look for their weaknesses. Be objectively critical of those and then help them develop what we need them to have for the SEAL teams and the missions that will ask them to do,” he added.MC1 Anthony Walker/US Navy via APHe’d turned down offers of medical treatment as he coughed up blood and fluids that week, and even called himself “such a p—y” because he was struggling to breathe the day he died, the report said.
After Mullen’s death, Navy Capt. Brad Geary was depicted as a barbarian, out-of-touch leader whose cadre of trainers pushed SEAL candidates too hard.“Our cadre deserved to be trusted and the American people deserve to know that they can trust the SEAL community, and it’s frustrating to me that [the report] unjustly undermines that trust,” he said.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday presents Cmdr. Bradley Geary the USO Special Salute Award during the USO’s 38th Annual Awards Dinner on March 10, 2020.Geary received an official letter of reprimand after the Navy investigation, but was allowed to continue his service in the military. Regina Mullen went on to suggest that no one should go through the elite special forces training course.A registered nurse, she said her son would not have died if he had been given proper medical care when showing signs of respiratory distress.
“When I first met Regina, she made it clear that no other parent should ever have to endure her pain,” Smith said in a statement last week after he and Regina met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy . “She has made incredible strides in her goal to ensure these young men are as healthy as possible and have access to a world-class medical monitoring capability.
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