NEW YORK — A Navy investigation found that the already tough selection course for Navy SEALs had become dangerous with lax oversight and medical care as course instructors pushed SEAL candidates to their physical limits, leaving some injured and hospitalized, and leading some to use performance enhancing drugs they believed would help them pass the course.
The Navy has committed to putting in place the investigation's recommendations that followed earlier changes prompted by the investigation of the February, 2022 death of SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen.
The nearly 200-page command investigation released Thursday identified"failures across multiple systems that led to a number of candidates being at a high risk of serious injury," Rear Adm. Peter Garvin, the commander of Naval Education and Training Command, wrote in a summary accompanying the report.
Inexperienced instructors focused on"weeding out" candidates and"hunting the back of the pack" instead of fostering teamwork that led to a significant increase in attrition rates from the course. The investigation also found what Garvin described as"strong indicators" of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in BUD/S by some SEAL candidates who believed they could help improve their chances of making it through the course.
"We want to make sure people are getting adequate care and not being left to die on the ground," T.J. Mullen, Kyle Mullen's brother, told ABC News in an exclusive interview."We just need medical to look at these guys, it's utterly pathetic that they weren't being taken care of."
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