What is BUD/S teaching future SEALs?
The death of a a 24-year-old trainee exposes a culture of cheating and steroids at the SEAL's vaunted training program.
More than a year has passed since Navy officers showed up at Regina Mullen’s New Jersey home to tell her that her 24-year-old son, Kyle, had died in the first phase of Navy SEAL training.
But her phone still rings at all hours of the day and night.
On the other end of the line are some of the young men who went through training with her son. Or their parents. The young men tell her what Kyle meant to them. The parents want to talk about what the Navy SEALs did to their children.
Kyle Mullen was star athlete with a 4.0 GPA in high school. A natural leader who encouraged others. Kyle went to Yale on a scholarship. He was named captain of the football team. After college, he enlisted in the Navy determined to become a SEAL.
The path to joining this elite fraternity of warriors runs through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training in Coronado, California. BUD/S, as …