After completing 'Hell Week,' students and instructors saw Seaman Kyle Mullen, 24, struggling to breathe and spitting up blood in the hours before he died of pneumonia
Two senior Navy SEAL leaders and a senior medical officer received reprimands in connection with the February death of a SEAL trainee at the service’s school in Coronado, the service said Wednesday.
The sailor’s heart was also enlarged, according to the autopsy. Mullen died of cardiac arrest caused by acute pneumonia. His enlarged heart was a contributing factor, the autopsy said. But several of Mullen’s classmates told investigators that he struggled to breathe and was spitting up blood during Hell Week in the days before his death. Although he was coughing up blood and pink foam, Mullen’s classmates said the sailor didn’t want to seek medical care because he didn’t want to roll back in training. Mullen had already been held back once due to heat stroke, the report said.
Mullen finished Hell Week the morning of Feb. 4 and was taken to his barracks room in a wheelchair to recover. A medical officer on duty recommended calling 911 but it did not happen. When Mullen became unresponsive in his room about 90 minutes later, paramedics were called. A Gatorade bottle full of the pink fluid he’d been coughing up for hours was found next to him, the investigation said.The report concludes that Mullen died in the line of duty and not due to his own misconduct.
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