The punishing training prepares the Navy SEALs to face the most deadly and violent of enemies, including Osama Bin Laden.ĭetailing the search for the Al Qaeda leader, he wrote: “Those first few hours going deep into those caves and tunnels were intense. “When the class corpsman applied tincture benzoate to seal the wounds and prevent infection it was like he was sticking a hot iron into each wound. “I developed two calluses on my left hand and three on my right, all five of them soon ripped off with a half-inch of flesh exposed from doing those wet and sandy push-ups on the beach. Recalling the excruciating training, which included carrying boats on their shoulders, dragging logs around and doing hundreds of push-ups, Mr Webb said: “By the second week my hands were shredded. The 26-week course is so gruelling that the drop-out rate can be as high as 90 per cent. The Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL is the first stage to qualifying for the elite special operations unit. Mr Webb’s book, The Red Circle, follows his Navy SEAL training, which he began in June 1997 aged 23, and details his experience of the notorious BUD/S course.
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