A Navy investigation found that the selection course for Navy SEALs had become dangerous with lax oversight and medical care as course instructors pushed SEAL candidates to their physical limits.
Kyle Mullen poses on the football field for a photo with his mother, Regina Mullen, in an undated family photo. The former star football player from Manalapan, N.J., Kyle Mullen died while trying out for the U.S. Navy Seals in 2022.
The report into Mullen's death led to changes that included better oversight of course instructors, more thorough medical screenings for cardiac conditions, updated medical policies, and more authorization to screen for performance enhancing drugs. U.S. Navy SEAL candidates participate in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, in the waters off Coronado, Calif., April 13, 2018.Inexperienced instructors focused on "weeding out" candidates and "hunting the back of the pack" instead of fostering teamwork that led to a significant increase in attrition rates from the course.
The investigation also found what Garvin described as "strong indicators" of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in BUD/S by some SEAL candidates who believed they could help improve their chances of making it through the course. "We want to make sure people are getting adequate care and not being left to die on the ground," T.J. Mullen, Kyle Mullen's brother, told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "We just need medical to look at these guys, it's utterly pathetic that they weren't being taken care of."
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