Being a Farmer vs Being a Navy SEAL 😳
A speaker compares the hardships of farm life to Navy SEAL BUD/S training, recounting the brutal experience of Hell Week — specifically the steel pier evolution. The story culminates in a darkly comedic medical mishap where a corpsman prescribed laxatives for what turned out to be a more serious side pain, leaving the trainee dealing with diarrhea during one of the most grueling military training events.
Summary
The speaker opens with a bold claim that some farm days were harder than SEAL training, setting up a comparison between two physically demanding lifestyles. He then shifts focus to BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training), identifying Hell Week as the hardest part for him personally.
During Hell Week, a recurring side pain that had previously affected him in boot camp returned during the steel pier evolution. He explains the mechanics of the steel pier: water temperature limits how long candidates can be submerged due to hypothermia risk, so instructors pull trainees out of the water — but instead of providing relief, they hose them down with cold garden water on a narrow metal pier, making the experience even colder and more miserable than being in the water itself.
While curled up in pain on the pier, the speaker sought medical attention for his side pain. The medical staff dismissed it as probable constipation or IBS and prescribed laxatives. This decision backfired severely — he now had diarrhea on top of Hell Week's already punishing schedule, with no ability to stop and use a bathroom. The segment ends with a humorous reenactment of the casual, indifferent exchange between medical staff, underscoring the absurdity and misery of the situation.
Key Insights
- The speaker claims that certain days working on a farm were physically harder than Navy SEAL BUD/S training, suggesting farm labor can rival elite military training in terms of physical demand.
- The speaker identifies Hell Week, not BUD/S training in general, as the specific phase that tested him most, noting that a pre-existing side pain from boot camp returned during this period.
- The speaker explains that the steel pier evolution is deliberately engineered to be colder and more miserable than the water itself — trainees are hosed with cold water on a narrow metal pier after being pulled out, which is actually more painful than remaining submerged.
- The speaker describes how medical staff during Hell Week casually dismissed his serious side pain as probable constipation or IBS and prescribed laxatives without thorough evaluation.
- The speaker recounts that the laxative prescription resulted in diarrhea during Hell Week, compounding his suffering since trainees are not permitted to stop and use a bathroom during the evolution.
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Transcript
[0:00] I had farm days that were harder than SEAL training. [music] But the hardest part about Buds for me was Hell Week. That same side pain that I had had in boot camp revisited me, and it was a steel pier [music] night. The water temperature determines how long you can be in the water. They have to take you out of the water so that you don't [music] get past hypothermia. On steel pier, they make the whole thing miserable by when you get out of the water, you're laying on a pier about this wide, and it's metal, and then they hose you off with a garden hose. So it's colder than the water. So I'm sitting…
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