Heh. I was going to make a WWE joke about how all the seals have to do is ask their supervisors to piss first but…
The new testing regimen was spurred in part by the 2022 death of Seaman Kyle Mullen, a 24-year-old sailor and former Division 1 football player who went into cardiac arrest a few hours after completing the hardest portion of the SEAL selection course, known as Hell Week. After his death, the Navy found testosterone, human growth hormone and other drugs in a car that the sailor shared with other candidates.
An investigation determined that Seaman Mullen’s death was not caused by drug use, but rather by bacterial pneumonia, made worse by inadequate medical attention and poor training oversight. Even so, the incident raised alarms about wider problems in the SEALs.
This straight up is the same shit that happened with benoit. A violent abuser was protected by the organization and his cronies even while he actively beat his wife and children and continued to engage in activities that would further damage his brain and remove what few inhibitions he had. Then, when he commit murder, it was IMMEDIATELY all about the steroids and nothing else.
Same here. The navy makes a culture where the only way people can possibly make it through training is by abusing steroids and uppers. And, to promote “strong warriors”, there is a strong culture of not asking for help and not providing it when it is needed. And then someone dies so it must be all the drugs.