Comment by mathattack

10 years ago

Interesting. I've trained with many Seals - they have ungodly cardio. I've never seen any that big, as the extra muscle kills their cardio.

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uola  10 years ago

Something seems fishy about that story. Not only are special forces people usually smaller, but getting hurt is a big no no. It will stop your training and severely jeopardize any mission you're on. Most special forces teaches the opposite of "if it's not hard we don't do it" i.e. to use your tactical advantage. That said, getting in to US special forces probably isn't that selective these days with having had to fill a lot of "seats" for various wars.

  • coredog64  10 years ago

    Anyone in any branch would be subject to charges for negligently incurring injury. I've heard a story about some guys in the Air Force who were written up for getting terrible sunburn while boating.

  • mathattack  10 years ago

    Digging in with Google, the writer is much less than a billionaire (though perhaps with more arrogance than one) and the seal was much less than 260 pounds. I have my suspicions about breaking every small bone in his feet and kidney failure too.

    And even if that story is true - how much glory is running until one gets kidney failure?

  • natdempk  10 years ago

    The story wasn't told well in that post, but it is legit. I've heard him speak in person before. The way he tells it, he had three years of non-deployable time so it was the quickest way for him to accomplish his goal of getting into the Badwater ultramarathon to raise money for charity. Not ideal, but he knew that he would have time to fully recover from it.