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221:(SARMs) among candidates. The candidate graduation rate in the SEALs course has declined over time, from 40% in the 1980s to 14% in 2021 to less than 10% in Mullen's class. Within Mullen's candidate class, approximate 40 candidates tested positive for, or admitted using, steroids or other drugs. The substances are barred by Navy regulations, but are believed to give candidates a competitive edge and improve their chances of becoming SEALs.
133:. "Hell Week" is a five-and-one-half-day selection test for the SEALs, starting on a Sunday morning and ending Friday evening, intended to simulate combat conditions. It occurs in the fourth week of SEAL candidates' assessment, the Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL (BUD/S) class; a majority of candidates do not finish the week. "Hell Week" involves enduring
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Mullen's death intensified scrutiny of the SEALs' leadership and the selection course, including the failure of Navy medics and other medical staff to promptly hospitalize or monitor Mullen immediately after the course. Broader criticisms of "Hell Week" have focused on SEALs leadership's fostering of
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The current head coach of his high school's football team who was an assistant coach when Mullen played, Dom Lepore, said in 2022, "Last summer I would see him at the gym and he came up to me and said he wanted to be a Navy SEAL," and "After getting his degree he had this direction of going into the
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for days, returned to his barracks, and laid on the floor. Recent reports from Navy officers via the Shawn Ryan Show, suggest a use of performance-enhancing drugs. Namely they allegedly found schedule 3 unprescribed drugs in Mullen’s vehicle. Despite Mullen's serious condition, he was not promptly
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On the day Mullen died, two more candidates who completed "Hell Week" were hospitalized, and a third man had to be intubated. Mullen was one of at least 11 men to be killed in SEALs training since 1953. Other men in the BUD/S class also suffered from life-threatening medical conditions, including
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said that Mullen "represented the very best of the state and country," and that "he was a legend in athletics and all walks of life." The governor directed flags in the state to fly at half-staff in his honor for a day. He was honored with a street to his name. Manalapan High School, from which
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Mullen made his first attempt at the SEALs selection course in August 2021; he did not complete the course. He tried again in the course that started in
January 2022. Mullen's BUD/S class numbered 210 men at the beginning; by the time "Hell Week" was over, 189 had dropped out or were forced to
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