A video showing a group of Navy SEAL candidates being doused with tear gas for more than a minute has become the subject of an inquiry.
The investigation into the “lawfulness of the activity” stemmed from selection at San Clemente Island in California last year, according to the Admiral.
According to the video, the practice is required so that children cannot sing Happy Birthday while holding their breath and passing out.
As being blasted with the gas at close range, several people screamed while instructors seemed to chuckle and videotaped them.
In the military, it is routine procedure to get used to using tear gas, but there are tight guidelines about how close to targets it may be and how long it can persist.
The event may have violated SEAL training regulations, which say that they must maintain a minimum distance of 6 feet and utilize the gas for no more than 15 seconds at a time.
Authorities are also looking into whether the trainers in the video were humiliating and punishing the recruits despite the fact that they were free to leave at any time.
In the footage from the previous year, recruits can be seen crouched on the ground as they are struck by tear gas during training, which simulates battle situations.
Happy Birthday is a song that the military often chooses to prevent people from holding their breath and passing out. Some members of the group complained as they strained to sing it.
The instructors may have violated the 6ft guideline by approaching them while spraying them with gas while they were not wearing masks themselves.
Additionally, the film went on for longer than the allotted 15 seconds allowed by military regulations—more than a minute.
Author Matthew Cole told CBS that the victim thought the instructors were “abusive and irresponsible” after seeing the video from someone training to be a SEAL.
Chest constriction, coughing, and shortness of breath may all be symptoms of tear gas exposure. Additionally, the harmful substances might cause impaired vision and burns.
Tear gas often has short-term negative effects on health, but there have been instances when individuals have had long-term problems as a result of exposure to the vapors.
The effects of more severe health problems, such as respiratory failure, may be exacerbated when exposed for prolonged periods of time in small, confined areas.
Around the globe, military training includes the use of tear gas so that students may develop their tolerance and increase their self-assurance while employing protective gear.
These new recruits had finished “Hell Week” and were halfway through their training before joining one of the hardest special forces squads in the world.
According to the Navy, it is a demanding “five and a half days of cold, damp, brutally challenging operational training on less than four hours of sleep.”
Candidates do more than 200 miles of running and more than 20 hours of daily physical activity.
After former college football player Kyle Mullen, 24, passed away only hours after finishing “Hell Week,” fresh video was released.
Following the intense training, Mullen began to exhibit “symptoms,” and on February 4 he was transferred to Sharp Coronado Hospital in California.
He eventually passed away from bacterial pneumonia, drowning in his own internal fluids.
Regina Mullen, Mullen’s mother, has recently blasted the Navy for delaying aiding her son after he started coughing up blood during training.
They murdered him, she earlier told The Times.
Although they call it training, it is really torture. They also failed to provide them with the necessary medical attention.
They abuse these men worse than they are permitted to treat prisoners of war, she said.