r/navyseals

What are your thoughts on the situation? Do you feel our US leaders have your back? Does TOS affect your decision to re-up? Do you have regrets?

Sup studs. Just wanna hear from the guys going to bud/s, been in bud/s, failed bud/s, or graduated from bud/s, what the current teams are like. Old guys feel free to join in and explain what it was like for you when you went through. What’s changed from when you were last in? Here’s some questions:

- How has bud/s changed?
- What evolutions are people struggling the most with?
- Any cultural changes in training/teams (professionalism, discipline, unit mentality, etc)?
- What’s the average person look like going through bud/s now (broken home types, attention seekers, all studs, wanna kill people types, humble & level headed, etc)?
- How is leadership currently?
- More big navy rules or still laid back?
- What does peacetime look like for the current seal teams?
- Deployments and time away?
- Family balance?
- Job stress?

These are all pretty open ended and subject to each individuals experience. Obviously for anyone who was in during peak gwot, it may be drastically different vs someone who just graduated a couple years ago. Feel free to answer the ones you know or want to talk about. Just trying to get a wholistic level look into how things have changed.

He’s the lord and savior of this sub. But nobody has actually verified him. Nobody’s verified SCUBA, nobody’s verified TOA.

NYDI’s mindset can legitimately be reduced to a singularity which is, “why would you fight for the USA”. Which isn’t an inherently bad question to ask, but it’s certainly not the energy you want in a sub full of aspiring Seals. He constantly posts what I would consider to be borderline mentally unstable trains of thought, YT repost, etc etc. It all gets downvoted and for a reason.

Then he says some random stuff in between that makes all the 14 yr olds cream their pants. “Oh if you don’t put out then your boat crew will kick your knees out from under you” and everyone acts like he said something revolutionary.

ALL of the info on this entire sub is basically “you got it, or you don’t got it”. There’s literally countless posers on here who are constantly online to act pedantic and dismissive of anybody who posts.

All of the information of this sub is completely subjective and imaginary.

I understand that dropping out is part of the selection process, especially in military training and other highly demanding programs. An instructor may see it as proof that the course is successfully identifying people who cannot perform under sustained stress. Showing sympathy might also weaken the psychological pressure used to test recruits’ determination.

Sometimes, however, it seems to go beyond professional satisfaction. Some instructors appear to take genuine pleasure in watching someone break down, fail, or feel humiliated. Could there occasionally be a sadistic element involved?

I do not necessarily mean sadism in a clinical or sexual sense. I mean deriving pleasure from exercising power, causing distress, or witnessing another person’s vulnerability. A rigidly hierarchical environment that celebrates toughness and obedience may give people with these tendencies a socially acceptable justification: “I’m not humiliating this person because I enjoy it—I’m training them.”

Of course, strictness and sadism are not the same thing. A good instructor may be extremely demanding because recruits need to be prepared for genuinely dangerous situations.

Nevertheless, that instructor should ultimately want every suitable recruit to improve and succeed.
If an instructor instead enjoys humiliation, inflicts unnecessary suffering, or measures personal success by how many recruits they can make quit, perhaps they are no longer selecting or training people.
They may be using the training environment to satisfy their own need for dominance.

How can we distinguish a legitimately demanding instructor from one who takes pleasure in breaking recruits down? And to what extent might institutional culture and weak oversight enable this behavior?

Just looking for someone to train with…

I train at the TTU REC Center Monday-Saturday.

I've helped a couple SO's, several EOD's, and many cops (fed and otherwise) and firefighters pass their respective selections. I've been around the sub since it had 300 subscribers. I have my CSCS and TSAC-F certs (useless tbh) and I have been trained directly by some of the biggest names in strength and conditioning. I work mostly online to help aspiring SOF and normies alike to get as fit as possible for their goals. Since 2020, I helped start up and run the "Online Training Group" (now called "Hotel Alpha"), a free resource of training, nutrition, and mental model development specifically for SOF selection.

I'm also 3 gin and juices deep. Ask away.

Hey everyone,

I’m getting pretty burnt out on traditional bodybuilding splits (hypertrophy, chest/back days, chasing pumps) and want to completely shift my focus. I’m looking for a functional, military-style approach—something centered on endurance, rucking, high-volume calisthenics, hybrid strength, and mental resilience.

I came across Mark Divine’s SEALFIT Elite Plus program, and on paper, it looks like exactly what I'm looking for. However, $30 a month feels pretty steep for a subscription, and I'm not sure if the price is actually justified.

For anyone who’s tried it:

1. Is SEALFIT Elite Plus actually worth $30/mo, or is it mostly marketing hype?
2. Are there better (or cheaper) alternatives out there that deliver that true military/tactical training experience for someone transitioning away from bodybuilding?

I’ve seen programs like SOFLETE, CronusFit, Mountain Tactical Institute (MTI), and CrossFit Linchpin mentioned around here, but I’d love to hear firsthand experiences from anyone who made a similar training pivot.

Thanks in advance for the advice!

I'm taking about the ukranian troops who daily storm trenches and also have to deal with drones. I feel like navy seals would be amatuers in comparison because nothing beats real-world experience.