What does it take to become a Navy Seal?

What does it take to become a Navy SEAL? Age 18. You graduate high school. You say you want to be a Navy SEAL. People don't clap. They look at you like, "Are you serious?" Because this isn't a career. It's a filter. Right now, the hardest thing you've done is wake up early for school. Salary zero dollars. Age 19. Navy bootcamp. Eight weeks. You think this is hard. It's not. It's the easiest thing you'll do for the next two years. You just don't know that yet. Salary 22,000 dollars. Age 20. Basic underwater demolition seal training. Six months designed to break you physically, mentally, and emotionally. Then comes Hell Week. Five and a half days. No sleep. Constant cold. Constant movement. The instructors aren't cruel. They're filtering. Because where you're going, quitting means people die. Salary 24,000 dollars. Age 21. Seal qualification training. Advanced combat, diving, parachuting, land warfare, demolitions. You learn how to operate in every environment on Earth. You become the person they send when nothing else has worked. Salary 36,000 dollars. Age 22. You get the trident. You officially become a Navy seal. First deployment. You land in a country you can't name in a mission that doesn't exist. The person next to you isn't your classmate anymore. He's your brother, and you'd both die for each other without hesitation. That's not dramatic. That's Tuesday. Salary 55,000 dollars. Age 28. Experience operator. Multiple deployments. You've done things most people will never hear about in places most people will never know you've been. The missions are classified. The scars are not. Salary 85,000 dollars. Age 35. Senior chief or team leader. You train the next generation. You look at them the same way your instructors once looked at you. You push them because you know what's coming. And you know that soft men don't survive hard places. Salary 110,000 dollars. Age 40. Senior chief. Now you run the platoon. You're planning missions that will literally never make the news. Your knees sound like a cement mixer and your back is permanently destroyed. But the younger guys look at you like an actual god. Salary 120,000 dollars. If you want to make videos like these, download Flash Loop.