Navy SEAL Hell Week Deaths: Do people die in hell week Navy Seals?

Navy SEAL Teams are the U.S. Navy’s primary special operations force whose primary function includes capturing or eliminating high-level targets or gathering intelligence behind enemy lines.

The SEALs’ main functions involve conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments.

The CIA’s highly secretive and elite Special Operations Group (SOG) recruits operators from SEAL Teams. All active SEALs are male and members of the U.S. Navy.

Hell Week is the defining event of BUD/S training which consists of 5 1/2 days of cold, wet, brutally difficult operational training on fewer than four hours of sleep. It remains the toughest training for seals.

Do people die in hell week Navy Seals?

No, less than 1% are likely to die in hell week. So far only one person has been confirmed dead. Kyle Mullen of Manalapan was one of two trainees who were hospitalized after completing several days of training outside San Diego, however, he passed away.