![]() 'You're grieving the death of a dream every day,' he added. But this was the first one under my command,' Geary told The Post last week of Mullen's death. 'I've lost many teammates in my career, unfortunately. They would also run a total of more than 200 miles, swim in the frigid ocean and complete other physical training for more than 20 hours a day. Mullen had been going through the program in the middle of winter and endured a five-and-a-half day stretch in which candidates are allowed just four hours of sleep each night. Part of the training involves frequent plunges in the frigid Pacific Ocean. The New York Times reported soon after Mullen's death that during Hell Week instructors on the camp kept students in frigid water for long periods, denied them sleep and hit and kicked them. One of the conditions that killed Mullen, formally swimming-induced pulmonary edema, was common among SEAL candidates, who would refer to the potentially lethal condition colloquially as SIPE. 'I don't even know that you need the SEALs.' 'If you're sick, you're weak - that's what they were like promoting and cultivating,' she said. Regina is a registered nurse, and claimed if her son had been given proper medical attention when he first started showing signs of illness. 'I think he feels bad, but everybody feels bad when you're caught.' You murdered him,"' she told The Post she told Geary. Brad Geary (pictured left), commanding officer of Naval Special Warfare's Basic Training Command, and an unnamed senior medical officer also got letters ![]() Mullen's mother, Regina, told The Post she wants Geary to be fired what what she says is his role in her son's death.Īlthough Geary is no longer commander of the training program, he does still serve in the Navy.Ĭapt. Geary maintained a view that the high attrition was caused, among other reasons, by the current generation having less mental resilience, or being less tough.' 'That's flippant and irresponsible and just not true,' he added. Those closest to me in my command would say I never said that. 'One of the things that was misstated in that report was this notion that I somehow blamed the next generation for being mentally weak, which is what resulted in the attrition,' Geary said. 'I'll never be able to take that weight off my shoulders,' Geary told The Post of Mullen's death, speaking for the first time since the report, and denying allegations that he blamed candidates for being mentally weak. This week Navy Captain Brad Geary, the commander in charge of the course at the time of Mullen's death in February 2022, gave an interview with the New York Post. It has been reported in scuba divers, free-diving competitors, combat swimmers and triathletes. The causes are not entirely clear, however the risk is believed to be greater in cold water which causes vasoconstriction in the extremities - meaning blood is redistributed to central vessels, such as the pulmonary artery, increasing pressure. It produces acute shortness of breath and coughing up blood. This is not from water being breathed in by the swimmer but happens when fluids from blood leak from small vessels in the lung. Swimming-induced pulmonary edema occurs when fluid accumulates in the lungs during swimming. Medical oversight and care were 'poorly organized, poorly integrated and poorly led and put candidates at significant risk,' the nearly 200-page report compiled by the Naval Education and Training Command and unsealed last week concluded. Regina Mullen, the mother SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen, told The Post that she called Geary a murderer over her son's death The Navy report detailed how 'a near perfect storm' of circumstances at the Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL course, referred to as BUD/S, resulted in injury to a number of candidates and the death of Mullen. The comments come as Mullen's mother revealed in an interview with the same paper that she called Geary a murderer over her son's death. 'I'll never be able to take that weight off my shoulders,' he said of Mullen's death. ![]() ![]() Navy Captain Brad Geary told The New York Post that claims within the official report that he saw the new generation as 'mentally weak' were untrue. ![]() Kyle Mullen, a 24-year-old from Manalapan, New Jersey, died during an intensive training program, Hell Week, after swimming in cold waters and developing pulmonary edema, which caused his lungs to fill with fluid, and pneumonia. The Navy SEAL commander in charge of an arduous boot camp during which a candidate died has spoken out after a scathing report by the Navy suggested that under his brutal leadership candidates were pushed too hard. ![]()
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