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IT training with seals
What does this mean? my SR wrote in his letter that he has "IT with the seals" and he is failing. I don't understand what this means, or why he would be working out with seals? he is not going to be a seal? he says he is failing because he has a deep cough and fever.
Why is he even with seals?
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Permalink Reply by IndyMom on
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IT means Intensive Training. They assign this usually if you do something wrong. It can be assigned to one person,several persons, or the whole division. The seal division number is 800's, is your son not in that division? Seals do extra PT that regular SR's don't do. Maybe this was the RDC's way of punishing him or his group for a performance issue. If your son is ill I could see why he would say he was having problems with it. I few years ago someone died in training...so they are very cautious not to overwork the recruits. So. try not to worry to much...I know that is not very comforting. If you are really worried you might ask Angie who is a retired Navy counselor on this site if there is anything you can do. Let me know what happens...
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Permalink Reply by salpetty on
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Also, keep in mind that the deep cough and fever is normal for almost every recruit. They all get sick at bootcamp. It's typically referred to as "Recruit Crud" or "Ricky Crud". After bootcamp, my cough lingered for months.
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Permalink Reply by purplegiraffe69 on
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well, i just got another letter, and he said he finally passed IT and he is all done with it now. He said he thought he was going to fail and come home, but he passed and its over (i guess that was part of hell week too) i do know he got in trouble a few weeks ago, so i am glad he got passed all of that and didn't get set back.
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