US Navy To Screen SEAL Candidates For Drugs After Death Of A Trainee During ‘Hell Week’

Navy SEAL candidates participate in "surf immersion" during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center in Coronado, Calif., on May 4, 2020. MC1 Anthony Walker/US Navy/AP 

CNN: Navy proposes stringent blood testing for elite SEALs training program to address drug use  

Washington CNN — Senior Navy officials are concerned about the use of performance enhancing drugs by Navy SEAL trainees and have asked the Pentagon to approve blood testing to detect potentially illegal or banned substances used by the elite forces. 

The request for more stringent blood testing comes after performance enhancing drug (PED) paraphernalia were found in the car of a SEAL trainee who died hours after completing the infamous “Hell Week” training program in February. 

In an interview with CNN, Regina Mullen, the mother of the dead trainee said that according to a toxicology report her son, 24-year-old Seaman Kyle Mullen, did not have PEDs in his system, but that he had told her that other trainees were using them. 

“There was more doing it than not let’s just say,” Regina Mullen told CNN.  

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Update: Navy wants to screen SEAL candidates for drugs after trainee’s ‘Hell Week’ death: report (NYPost)  

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