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The movie G.I. JANE accurately portrays all aspects of U.S. Navy SEALs School Training.
Fact: While we can't speak specifically to U.S. Navy SEAL training at this time, you can see similar ascepts of certain training methods in the fictional movie, that you can also see in the documentary on U.S. Navy SEAL Training, BUD/S. However, the movie had issues in several major areas relating to the U.S. Military. First, female candidates are not accepted or allowed into U.S. Navy SEAL school. Secondly, while we can't speak specifically to U.S. Navy SEAL S.E.R.E. training, we can convey certain aspects of U.S. Army S.E.R.E. Training in general comparison. The U.S. Army S.E.R.E. Training did not allow a handful of intructors to take trainees out in a remote area, completely unchecked, and allow those instructors to beat up those trainees cart blanche. Candidates that went through the U.S. Army S.E.R.E. training were very closely monitored by physicians, who stood on the sidelines while the game (i.e. training) was in play. Instructors were not allowed complete freedom as to their methods with trainees, everything has been planned out and choreographed beforehand, and followed the overall rules established. The third issue in the movie (when the trainees are on a subermine out in the Mediterranean Sea for an Operational Exercise and then sent out on a mission) , again while we can't speak directly to U.S. Navy SEAL trainees and deployments of those trainees, the U.S. Military has requirements, procedures, and approvals from various chains of command before committing assets (planes, ships, personnel, etc.). Also, U.S. Military School are very regulated, from what we know of the U.S. Army, as are their budgets, and the legal issues of a training school sending candidates (who haven't graduated yet) out into an international scenario of a real mission, and allowing them to participate, would be disregarding major legal liability issues. That is not to say that in real life candidates that go through military training can't be injured, or in the extreme and unfornate cases, killed.
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