I am so afraid for joshs life. he wants to be a SEAL. all of my parents have died or left, and i grew up without a mother and father . i dont want that for my children, i want to have a real family. josh says that seals are the most protected, and there has never been one who died bc of a mission. he says the only bad part would be that he would have to leave for missions IMMEDIATELY. but he might also have to complete 9 months of solid training prior to his service, with no communications to the outside whatsoever. i am so scared for his life......how dangerous is it to be a SEAL, and what are the other risks, and how long are they gone for at a time?

oh yeah that to all deltas tend to be off their rockers from a normal standpoint they are right up their with the SEALs, Force Recon and the Green Berets (and really since delta is multi-service above the best sorta)

oh my lord, he wont make delta force unless he is huge. Strong as an ox, and can shoot 100/100, 100 times in a row.

Delta Force tends not to do as much seabourne operations

ugh. i was worried, so he changed his mind, now the BRILLIANT guy wants to be a phi delta squadron!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 ugh,. whats the difference besides pds is in the army and seals are navy?

i would die of anxiety...that would be horrible..im sorry

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hydrok:
So he may die... but he may be a hero, and if thats what he wants, good for him.
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if he wants to be a hero this is the wrong force and branch (the seals are built upon the principle of having no one ever known they were there)

well, the seals are some of the most highly trained forces in the world, but they are not protected the seals only have eachother, thier intel, thier training and thier weapons to protect them, they run covert missions deep in hostile territories by themselves in small groups of anywhere from 2 to 16 being the largest group. but dont worry the chances of being a seal are low very few make it through the training and are accepted it is insane. and seals are almost never home, they spend most of thier time training and bunking on whatever us vessels are in heavy mission areas. few seals die because they are so well trained but they do die, it does happen.

true enough have fun at jump school and remeber it isn't sargent it's "Sargent Airborne"

I still am going for a Spec Ops. Airborne intel troop job, I've already gotten AIT, SERE (advanced beatings, water, arctic, and jungle) the only thing I have left to get is my jump wings.

not to mention you don't qualify for the PJs(non-medic) and the Combat Controllers are at the very least as insane as the SEALS

Good point about not making it... Chances are he'll wss out somewhere along the lines... not to poke fun, but 90% of the recruits do. My friend didn't make the ARMY rangers... and the only reason I'll ever be spec. ops. is because I'm not doing all the training at once.

Because of the Navy SEALS level of training (which can be more dangerous than actual missions) when they get in to the bush you need troops, tanks and aircraft to kill them but their main saftey is that no one know that the SEALS are there they locate a target guide in some bombs from a stealth fighter and head back to whence they came with no body the wiser. Also there is a high rate of drop for BUD/S training so there's a pretty good chance your husband/boyfriend Josh won't make it in at all

well in honesty a SEAL is probably the safest of all the spec. ops. simply because they literally "take no prisoners" they prefer to kill everyone and blow everything up... however in all spec. ops. there is multitudes of danger not associated with the rest of the military... So he may die... but he may be a hero, and if thats what he wants, good for him.

SEALS usually deploy for a year at a time in theater, they do missions out of carriers and destroyers with helipads. They are usually only in imminant danger for a couple days at a time, they come back get a little R&R and then go do it again.

Dangers include: Diseases, bullets, mortars, traps, IED's, RPG's, capture, torture, interrogation, death.