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Here was a typical day in SEAL training:
I woke up at 4:45a.m. because to me getting a shower before other people and when it wasn’t crowded, was important. I had my battle dress uniforms pressed and looking good and my boots shined nicely. This type of dress is really required by the instructors and they enforced it without remorse. You would have to drop down and face the nearest body of water and do pushups. People would ask my why I had to face the water and I always thought it was to pay respect to the ocean because it was our mask, our lifeline and our escape route if ever chased or trying to be caught.
Anyways our class, class 235 assembled in what is affectionately called the cave which is just a common place for our class to get together and take roll call and prepare to get moving. We started running to breakfast which is a mile and a half one way. If you add that up it took us roughly nine miles just to go eat three times a day. That’s before we actually worked out or anything. In my short time at SEAL training one morning stands out.
We just got back from breakfast and we had to line up on the Coronado shore and lock arms. We just stood there and stared at the ocean while the ocean was 51 degrees Fahrenheit it splashed on my toes. We marched into the ocean arm in arm, my body was twitching ands shivering because the environment that I was subjecting it to. We had to keep our chins in the icy cold water while the waves broke over our heads. I had two really tall people in my arms so my head wasn’t coming up all the way and I was fighting the water to keep my head up. The undercurrent got so bad we all 120 some trainees had to turn around and swim to the shore. Again I was hit in the face and gut with flailing legs and arms. This type of exercise was to really make you feel that you were a part of a team because we all were interlinked together when we were in the surf and we had to endure the pain of freezing together. It was incredibly fun.
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