Follow-up to The 6-year-old hater…
We took the kids to the National Navy SEAL Museum (a mask-free and indoor/outdoor experience, like most Florida experiences). The museum was showing an interview with a World War II veteran in his 90s. The 6-year-old asked “Is that Joe Biden?”
We learned that Anthony Fauci was a SEAL (“Using Science to Maximize Success”):
We did not enter the raffle to win a sniper rifle…
The Museum’s yard is filled with interesting boats, submarines, and a very-tough-visitors-welcome obstacle course:
Earlier in the day, we learned at the St. Lucie County Aquarium that high-fertility immigrants make life difficult for natives:
It is encouraging to see that SEALs also embrace The Science. Will they benefit from blue screens combined with Azure denial of service attacks?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-army-postpones-to-2022-its-22-billion-microsoft-augmented-reality-headset-contract/
“The headsets are based on Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented-reality goggles technology, augmented with Azure cloud services.”
It’s great that we can find stuff for muscular men to do but modern warfare is totes push button drone strikes and information warfare. Apparently being pregnant is not a hindrance to participating.
USA Today, 02/06/22 – Navy trying to unravel mystery of SEAL candidate’s death hours after ‘Hell Week’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/02/06/navy-seal-candidate-death-hell-week-investigation/6683005001/
“Investigators were trying to determine Sunday why one Navy SEAL candidate died and another was hospitalized after completing the SEAL training “Hell Week.”
The two sailors were rushed to San Diego-area hospitals Friday, several hours after their Basic Underwater Demolition class successfully completed part of the first phase of the SEAL assessment and selection program, the Navy said.
Training to become a SEAL begins with a 26-week, full-body workout program, according to the SEAL website.
“Each week of progressively harder workouts is designed to help you develop the strength and endurance to withstand the rigors of Navy SEAL,” the website says.
Becoming a SEAL involves physical and psychological strength along with water competency and leadership skills. More than half of candidates generally fail to complete grueling Hell Week…
The last SEAL candidate to die during the assessment phase was Seaman James Derek Lovelace, 21, in 2016. He was struggling to tread water in full gear in a giant pool when his instructor pushed him underwater at least twice. He lost consciousness and died.
The San Diego County Medical Examiner initially ruled Lovelace’s death a homicide, but the Navy declined to pursue criminal charges. An autopsy revealed Lovelace had an enlarged heart that contributed to his death.”
““Each week of progressively harder workouts is designed to help you develop the strength and endurance to withstand the rigors of Navy SEAL,” the website says.” – strength development is pure BS. Strength development requires timed exercise and enough sleep, or is purely genetic.
Endurance yes. But strength and endurance are not the same even though they overlap.
As I am looking at base physical requirement for US army rangers and navy seals, they would not get me an A and possible B grade in physical education at my old STEM high school in my country of birth. I sincerely hope that they are there just to encourage soldiers and sailors to apply and are in no way reflect skills required to become a Army Ranger or a Navy Seal.
“old STEM high school”
N18? 239? 57?
My guess is that it would be 239 in St Pete. Did not know they were so stringent on PE.
Well, well, my morning routine in N18 included running 5km. Hated running then, hate it now, but for some reason always ended up in light athletics sports sections:)
Sometimes physical norms puzzle me. Tom Brady pre-draft measurables: 40 yard (36.6 m) dash: 5.28 sec, vertical jump: 0.62 m, broad jump: 2.51m. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brady#New_England_Patriots . I honestly sucked in all 3 in comparison to school /college athletes but in the past I could definitely match all and probably best Tom Brady in some. I too hate running but was OK when I had to do it, especially in 5K. I am talking about push-ups, chin-ups, sit-ups/crunches I have seen several of them before, this is first that I searched now: Push-Ups (2 minutes to complete, not at once!!!) – 49; Sit-Ups (2 minutes to complete, not at once!!!) – 59, Pull-Ups (Palm In) – 6!!!, 5 miles “run” – completed in 4 minutes (8 minutes per mile!!!). This is minimum requirement from recent ranger fitness assessment scoresheet. I hope real army rangers would beat it by wide margin.