A grieving mother wants answers after her 24-year-old son made it through what’s known as Navy SEALs Hell Week only to die just hours later.
Regina Mullen claims that Kyle did not get the medical attention he required, despite him coughing up blood.
“They said they checked him. It’s impossible. He would have never died hours later if they checked him. Any even non-medical person saw a person spitting up blood, wouldn’t you think they need to go to hospital to get checked?” Regina Mullen said.
Kyle Mullen’s lungs were filling up with fluid, and Regina says that some of the other men were asking to have him checked.
“Supposedly, the medical team just patted on the behind and said, ‘Good job,’”Regina.
Three weeks of intense physical and mental endurance tests are required to become a Navy Seal. This year, the course was taken by 210 men. 189 of them dropped out after the second week. Only 10% of those who make it to the elite fighting force are accepted.
“[Kyle] told me he wanted to do something on a team, something elite,”Regina.
Kyle Mullen grew up in Manalapan, New Jersey. He was a star athlete in highschool and played football at Yale.
“He was the baby of my two, and we were very close — just laugh everyday and dance around the house, and it’s all gone. It’s a big gap in my life,”Regina.
The Navy has launched an investigation into whether performance-enhancing drugs are routinely taken by Navy SEAL candidates hoping for an edge
Regina says that two toxicology reports, one conducted privately and one done by the Navy, found no such drugs in Kyle’s system.
She claims she tried to meet the Admiral in Charge of the SEALs but he declined.
“I guess he can’t look into the mother’s eyes of the kid that they basically killed,”Regina.
At least 11 men died in training to be a Navy SEAL since 1953.