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Navy finds 'perfect storm' of problems in elite Seals course [View all]
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65724065Navy finds 'perfect storm' of problems in elite Seals course
2 minutes ago
By Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC News, Washington
A gruelling training programme for US Navy Seals suffers from a lack of oversight, drug use and poor medical care, according to a new report.
The US Navy's report found that the programme put "candidates at significant risk" of injury and death.
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Naval investigators found that medical care at the course was "poorly organised, poorly integrated and poorly led", factors which it believes "likely had the most direct impact on the health and well being" of candidates.
These failures, the report added, directly contributed to the death of Kyle Mullen, a sailor who died of acute pneumonia last year just hours after completing the Hell Week test.
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