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I wrestled at John F.

Kennedy High School in Island, New Jersey, and then

also for Middlesex County College in Edison, New Jersey.

I believe it helped me get trained up a little bit more.

It definitely helped as far as my ability to handle pain.

One of the big things in wrestling is you have to be able to deal with a lot of pain.

It's a very good experience.

It definitely helped me understand where I can push myself to.

Right now, I just finished doing three platoons over at a 16.5.

And now I work at Advanced Training Command.

And I teach combatants anything.

You come into a house and you have to put hands on somebody.

This is the system that we use on how we can do this.

I remember when I was in Buds, my nemesis was the drown proofing.

I didn't know how to swim before I came into the teams.

You know, I'm from the West Indies.

I'm from Trinidad and Tobago.

And in Trinidad, everyone goes to the beach.

But it's not really to go swimming.

You go to the beach just to go hang out, you know, hang out with family,

eat food for about two and a half years.

I had to learn how to swim, swim well enough where I can pass the screen test.

So learning how to become comfortable and relax,

that was a major challenge for me when I was in Buds.

I explicitly remember a couple times wanting to quit.

I learned a lot about myself during all my training in Buds.

A lot, a whole lot.

A lot of people for them, when they think about Buds, they think about hell week.

Hell week is not the only part of Buds.

There's a lot of evolutions where you are going to be in a lot of pain.

You are going to be tired.

You're going to be driven to a point where you've never been before.

The stuff that you've already done in wrestling practice is going to be very

similar to the types of pain that you will be experiencing here.

It's not that much different.

90% of the guys that I know that were wrestlers made it through the program.

And a lot of that was just their ability to be able to deal with the pain.

The guys that have been the wrestlers when you come to the evolutions like Log PT,

carrying the boats overhead, those should be not necessarily easy exercises,

but you've already been there in a place like that before.

So it shouldn't be anything where, okay, I can't do this.

There's nothing here at Buds that somebody who's a wrestler who

has that type of pain experience won't be able to deal with.

Doing this program and making it through this training

has taught me that there's nothing that I can't do.

There's nothing that I can't accomplish.

This is a very exclusive opportunity.

Don't let your fear of the water or something like

that dissuade you from trying to come to this program.

This is an amazing community to be in.

I have no regrets about doing what I've done.

I'm very, very happy that I'm a Navy SEAL right now.

This is a life achievement for me.

I'm AJ James and I'm the U.S.

Navy SEAL.

I'm the Sacramento Denver.

I grew up in Northern California.

I played three years of high school across that area

and then I went on to play at Syracuse University.

I was fortunate enough to be a member of two national championship teams at Syracuse.

In my senior season, I was the team captain in an All-American.

When I think of how lacrosse translates to what we do

in the SEALs, I think of lacrosse as a warrior sport.

So you take individual warrior skill set and apply it

to a team concept and then you go compete on the field.

What we do in the SEAL brotherhood is select and

train individuals and individual warrior skill sets.

We translate that to a team concept and then that

tactical unit goes on to Hunter Nations enemies.

So I think it translates very directly.

My name is Christian Olson.

I play lacrosse for about eight years.

The best part about being a SEAL is the job description.

I mean, I love jumping out planes.

I love shooting guns.

I love doing everything that is involved with our job.

I started playing lacrosse.

I moved to my new town food port.

All my friends played.

If your pros and skills weren't up the par, you're the

weakest link and you run and coach a team, maybe you win.

It's kind of the same way with the teams.

You have to be the best at everything.

My name is Dave Dauffney.

I play lacrosse at Boston College.

I've been in the SEALs for about five years.

Lacrosse is a great preparation for being in the teams.

And it's also just a tough sport.

It's physically hard and it challenges you to have some

mental toughness in order to make it through as well.

To somebody coming into the teams who's played lacrosse, I would say that a lot of

the ways that your challenge has lacrosse player and on

lacrosse team have exact parallels here in the teams.

Both in training and then beyond in SEAL teams and in platoon life.

Again, you talk about that individual performance and

then also putting that together for a team performance.

There's really no better way to describe how a SEAL platoon operates.

The things that I enjoy the most without question is the team dynamics.

People you get to work with every day and the folks

you get to spend you know the bulk of your time with.

So I think just being around that caliber of individual and getting to share your

time with those guys is something special to be a part of.

The ability to work with people every day that really really want to be doing what

they're doing and are really motivated to do so that to me is the greatest reason

why being a part of the teams isn't truly a rewarding job.

You're up Ryan motorcycles at a really young age.

It's exhilarating.

It's intensity.

It's the funnest thing that I've ever done growing up as a kid.

My favorite part about racing is the intensity that you race at.

The intensity is so high that you can't be thinking about anything else.

So whatever problems you're having or whatever distractions you have I'll go

away when you're when you're racing a motorcycle.

I've had the opportunity to do a lot of things but nothing nothing tops right in

my motorcycle or more specifically racing my motorcycle.

I love the competition the competitive aspect of

racing motocross is what brings it all together.

Yeah there's excitement when you're riding but

when you're racing and competing that's the best.

The only thing that's going through your head when you're on

that gate is trying to be as cool and as comfortable as you can.

You don't know how that starts going to go and that's the most dangerous part of that

race because if you fall down especially if you're in front of that pack going into

that first corner if you fall down you're going

to be run over by a whole bunch of people.

You're going to get jacked up and it's going to

affect you to the outcome of the race significantly.

Similar between motocross and being a team guy are the fact that you can plan all you

want but once the gate drops or once the mission starts there's too many

contingencies to be able to plan for and you have to be able to make changes on the

fly instantaneously that are going to affect the outcome of the mission.

Each guy who first comes into the team is going to really

like what he sees because the opportunities are endless there.

You can be a sniper, you can be a communicator, you can be a driver.

I mean you're going to be doing everything but you're also going to specialize in a

certain aspect of it you're going to become a subject matter expert in that field.

Knowing that each seal has gone through the same training or at least the same

basic training that you've gone through means that they've been tested and they've

proven themselves thus far just gives you that much more reassurance that that you

can count on them even if even if the going gets tough and that's when you need

and meet them the most you rely on them the most.

My name is Stacey Virgin, I'm the United States Navy Seal.

My name is Justin Gabriel, born and raised in San Diego, California.

I've been in the United States, I felt that swimming

would be a challenge and I thought I could be competitive.

In high school I competed in both breaststroke 100 and

200 meter distances 500 meter freestyle and the 200 I am.

I like swimming because of the way most of the

responsibility for your performance lies inside.

You're required to maintain your own physical fitness outside of the pool

including doing some cross-training, some of the running, some of the

flexibility issues, nutrition, all that, those

key elements to being successful in the pool.

The reason I decided to become a Navy Seal

is because I thought it would be a challenge.

I was born and raised in San Diego, however I

never actually knew what being a Navy Seal was.

Petitive swimmers have an advantage in this pipeline

because of their familiarity and comfort in the water.

Something you can't really teach.

One of the biggest and largest hurdles that any potential

seal has to face is fear of the water, fear of the ocean.

However, despite those advantages with the water, you still have to come with the

mental preparation that allows you to get through difficult circumstances,

coldness of the water, lack of rest, lack of nutrition, and injuries.

And that is something that Petitive Swimming and

any other sport really cannot quite give you.

You have to come here and experience it for yourself.

Initially upon attempting this program, my thought

process is to meet my goals and be challenged.

What it's turned into is a brotherhood.

The brotherhood and the solidarity between operators at the seal team is something

that I don't know you can experience anywhere else.

And that is what gets us through challenging situations.

It's what gets us through the rigors of warfare, and it's what gets us through the

difficulties of training and preparing for the war.

My name is Justin Gabriel.

I'm a Navy Seal.

I'm Nathan Atfield from Imperial Beach, California, and I'm a U.S.

Navy Seal.

I used to play a water polo in high school.

I played for four years at Marvisa High School.

When I played a water polo, I was a Ford.

I also played a defensive pole.

And I always thought that was funny because

I was always the shortest guy on the team.

I was just real scrappy.

Yeah, water polo definitely prepared me to be comfortable in the water.

Some things are harder for other students.

But because of water polo, I was able to do well at the

tread and the underwater knot tying and stuff like that.

It wasn't as hard.

And I get beat up during water polo practice.

And during games has really made it easier to do certain things in the water.

Ocean swims, ocean passage, rock portage, anything in the water that seems

uncomfortable at the time was pretty easy because I had the water polo back down.

Plus the teamwork is exactly the same.

Even more so.

Because you trust that guy with your life.

Right now I'm a seal instructor at SQT.

I teach a land warfare.

SQT is the advanced training portion of the Buds pipeline.

What I like best about land warfare is that we shoot a

lot of guns and actually do the tactics that we're using.

Other phases or just training phases.

We do a lot of shooting, a lot of moving, a lot of communication, a lot of teamwork.

It's everyone needs to be heads up, know what's going on so they shoot each

other in the back and they can successfully move on the enemy.

Land warfare pretty much is when you go to a target in

country you usually get there by patrol, some type of patrol.

Land warfare teaches what to do in extreme circumstance if you get contacted or you

need to maneuver on enemy to successfully engage at the target.

When you're over in country you're really defending the guys that are there.

I feel like when I'm there I'm there to help them so

they can do their mission and they can get home safely.

My advice to the high school and collegiate waterfall

players that want to be a Navy Seal just go ahead and do it.

You already have the background and the skill sets to make it through.

You've got to have the mental toughness not to quit.