Navy SEALs BUD/S Class 234

114 students of Class 234 enter a pre-training program to prepare themselves for the six-month long training course required to become US Navy SEALs. Five weeks later, 83 remain.

BUD/S training is divided into three distinct phases, each lasting nine weeks. Before moving to the next phase, Class 234 must demonstrate a commitment to withstand stress.

The first three weeks of First Phase are known as “two weeks and a long day”. The “long day” is Hell Week, where individuals fail and only teams survive.

The third week of BUD/S training is called Hell Week. Its sole purpose is to separate the undecided from the committed in a ritual every SEAL must pass and no SEAL wants to repeat.

Class 234 begins Second Phase with nineteen original members and ten additional students rolled in from prior classes. Phase two is a nine-week course known as the Dive Phase.