The Steps To Becoming A Navy Seals

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Why it is achieving a goal can be so hard that you feel like it’s impossible to do, but at the same time it seems so easy. Most people might give up half way to achieving their goal and only a few will succeed. In life everyone has their own accomplishment, and goals that they want to achieve. Goals like completing a degree in school, getting the jobs they want, or get better at the sports or exercise they enjoy. Achieving a goal isn’t as easy as you would think, because it takes commitment, motivation, times, and a lot of failures or efforts to get pass obstacle to achieve the goal you want. A goal could be as small as learning how to ride a bicycle, you have to take the time to practice to learn. And when you fall, you have to find the motivation …show more content…

Becoming a Navy SEALS require both mental and physical toughness. Let 's explore the steps to takes before I will enlist to become a Navy SEALs.
The first step of me before enlisting to becoming a Navy SEALs was the mental part. I will have to go to a local Navy recruiting station to talk to a recruiter, and tell him that I want to become a Navy SEALs. Then the recruiter will ask me to take a practice test to determine if I’m ready to take the real test called the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). Why do I have to take the ASVAB? Because it is it is just like join any other normal branch in the military, it used to determine qualification of what kind of jobs I will get when I join the military. Well, first thought for me was that’s sucked, because I hate taking tests. But in the reality I will have to take it wither I want to or not. At first, I didn’t really understand how the test work, therefore, I studied a little bit and went to a recruiter took the practice test and failed it badly. It was quite disappointing, because as I was doing the test, I …show more content…

Next step will be the Pre-enlistment medical screening test. This test is to make sure their body is qualifying to join the military, candidates will go through personal trait test as well to if their personal traits is fit. After the Pre-enlistment medical screening test, next step for the candidates will be taking the Physical Screening test (PST). PST is a test that’s the physical part which is used to see if the candidate who are try becoming Navy SEALs are physically fit to becoming a Navy SEALS ,and it is included 500m swim, run 1.5 mile, and a certain amount of push up, sit up, and pull up, of course they are all have a time requirement. And a candidate who are trying to become a Navy SEALs has to try to get the best score they can get. Candidates who have the best score will have a nation draft around the state, and qualify to enter the BUD/s

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