I’ve heard that SEAL training is the most rigorous and difficult training program known to man. It makes a regular military boot camp look like a walk in the park.
I’ve heard that many experienced navy men, experienced officers, who are proficient at what they do, fail and drop out of SEAL training. It’s supposed to be so tough that far less than half make it through.
Royal Marines used to be pretty tough. I don’t know about now. Marine Recon has always been tough. French Foreign Legion doesn’t mess around. The Gurkhas are pretty tough. Individually, I thought the Kenyan Rifles were amazingly tough men. One on one they weren’t someone to mess with. Tactically, they left something to be desired.
Of course, the Kamikaze Scots are the toughest:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0t50H44IE
My father made it through OCS (Officer Candidate School) and said it was grueling, but I imagine SEAL training is far more demanding. I probably couldn’t do it.. Mentally yes, physically no. But I am like a fish in the water!
I thought the male dropout rates are at least 80%.
I went to my sons graduation of his usmc basic force recon course at Coronado. I asked one of the instructors (a SEAL)if they compare what this he had done in BUDS? He told me it was as tough.