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<p>-Are you sure about that? Academy grads do have the highest success rates at BUDS as compared to everyone else. Some how I find it hard to believe that an entire class of grads DORed that early, unless you are referring to just a specific block of BUDS and not every grad from that year.</p>
<p>I also have trouble believing there is a stigma for those who think that it is “glamorous” to be a SEAL. I will concede that every plebe class has scores of people who want to be SEALs, many because it is glamorous. However, the SEAL LTs and senior enlisted at the Academy provide them with more than enough indoctrination to weed out those looking only at the glamorous side of Sec War. You specifically mentioned weekly PT sessions, but there is also the SEAL Screeners that they hold every semester which includes swimming in the Severn in the dead of the Annapolis winter and usually last most of the weekend. By Firstie Summer, all the mids who still want SEALs usually do a cruise block with a SEAL team. Several of my friends who went on these courses could describe them only as month long beat down sessions. I can’t speak for what ROTC guys going to BUDS experience during their four years, but I highly doubt that recieve the same amount of indoctrination into what being a SEAL is really all about.</p>
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<p>I don’t think it is safe to “assume” that anyone is safe for BUDs. However, as was stated earlier, it takes a special type of person to be a SEAL. If you get SEALs out of the Academy, there is an excellent chance that you ARE that type of person.</p>