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= About The Navy Seals =

= = The Navy SEALs were formed in 1962 by president John Kennedy. Navy SEALs are regarded as the most important team of [|Special Forces] in America. They have one of the hardest training courses in the whole United States military. This includes the much dreaded training week of the course which was nicknamed by Navy SEALs as "Hell Week". They have a schedule on when they train in specific areas. And they have minimal requirements just to get into the SEALs. Although those are just minimum requirements every SEAL says that you should just get rid of that minimum number, because they want you to go above and beyond your expectations.

Navy Seals Training
A lot of people would like to be Navy SEALs thinking it is just being heroic being loved. But to get into the Navy SEALs there is a lot more to it than just being a hero. You could say that you have to go through "hell" to get to "hell." The training of the Navy SEALs is one of the hardest training courses in the whole United States military. Part of the training is not just physical, you have to learn to trust and think of your squad mates as family. media type="youtube" key="lyb2dMBHDsU" width="560" height="315" align="left"

The Navy Seals training schedule
The Navy SEALs workout schedule is very tough. Five days a week you are swimming, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday you are swimming and running. On Tuesdays and Thursdays you are swimming more and doing strengthening and conditioning.

Hell Week
"Hell Week" is the most difficult week of training that the Navy Seals have ever, or future Navy Seals will ever have. It is 4 hours of sleep a day, then the rest of the day non-stop training that makes the Army's training look like a piece of cake. A purpose of "Hell Week" is to root out the people who are not truly dedicated to being a Navy Seal, but also of course to get the one's who are truly dedicated and wish to serve their country better training, and getting them ready to be behind enemy lines for sometimes weeks at a time. This trains them to move on without a break for a long time.

Minimum requirements
Minimum requirements are not that important, because you should be going above and beyond those standards. They have two columns for each category, one being the minimum requirements, and one being the competitive standards. You should be able to do the 500 yard swim in 12:30 seconds minimum, but for the competitive standard it should be done in 8 minutes. In two minutes you should have 50 pushups done for the minimum requirements, but for the competitive standard you should do 80-100, a tip that a former Navy Seal gave is "do not pace yourself, just do as many as you can, as fast as you can. But be sure to keep the correct form or the Seal instructor will not count it." (Navy Seal Fitness Test) You should be able to do 52 sit ups in two minutes for the minimum requirements, but for the competitive standards you should do at least 100 in two minutes, for sit ups you should "PACE yourself, try doing 20-30 situps in 30 seconds." (Navy Seal Fitness Test) For pull ups you should be able to do 8 in 2 minutes minimum, but if you want to be competitive you should do at least 20. For the 1.5 mile run you should do in 11 minutes and 30 seconds if you are doing the minimum requirements, but for the competitive you should be able to do it in 9 minutes. That are the minimum requirements for the Navy Seals but you should always strive to do more.

Navy Seal's Role in Warfare and How They GET TO Those Missions
The Navy Seals role in warfare is very simple. They are a stealth team of special operatives sent in on special missions. Usually secret missions that the U.S didn't want messed up, or if the U.S. didn't want anyone to find out about it. As Greg E. Mathieson says in his book United States Naval Special Warfare, U.S. Navy Seals "In this time of remote fighting, with people fighting less and less, man to man fighting. The seals are our front line in fighting the man to man fighting." he also states that "The submarine is the most used SDV (Seal Delivery Vehicle) to get the seals to their missions." (United States Special Naval Warfare Page 260-261) This proves that without the submarines the Navy Seals would not be as relevant as they are today. The Navy Seals actual purpose is to be a small strike force to take out big targets that machines can't get to. So that is why they were chosen to kill Osama Bin Ladin and other high value terrorist targets in modern days. The Navy Seals role in U.S history is describable and that is a reason why they innovated warfare.

How the Navy Seals Innovated Warfare
The Navy Seals innovated warfare in several different ways. Without them Osama Bin Ladin would still be out there plotting how to kill more Americans. They played a big part in the Cold War. Although no direct warfare took place during the Cold War, many people believe that the Seals carried out missions. They are one of the big reasons that submarines are still around today, so that they can be SDV's (Seal Delivery Vehicles) for them. Overall the Seals are an elite fighting team that are used for many different types of warfare, that is how they changed the world.

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