Delta or SEAL

IMO, the Seals are the toughest group to join. One only needs to look at the amount of guys that drop out (90 percent) to conclude it has the toughest physical requirements. You are talking about top level athletes, who most have dreamed of becoming a Seal their entire lives, and even 90% of them end up quitting and not making it. Some of the underwater training the Seals do is ridiculously hard - the normal person could not do it even if they wanted to. Seals are not made, they are born. They have God given physical gifts that the normal personal (or even above average person) does not have. Most military branches (marines, army, navy) - if you are just an average athlete but have the willpower you can be successful. I've known a lot of out of shape guys that joined the Marines and had no problem with bootcamp. In fact, when they got out of Marines they were still out of shape lol. But the Navy seals is entirely different ball game. Their lung capacities are that of olympic swimmers when it comes to holding their breath underwater. I would consider the Navy Seals to be the absolute best soldiers in the entire world. No disrespect to the Army Rangers, but the Seals physical requirements are just tougher.

But, when it comes to executing missions - I dont think any group is more bad ass than the other. Both army rangers and Seals have to do dangerous missions. What is kind of odd though is that most times their missions, while very specialized, are not that much more dangerous than what a conventional soldier would have to encounter, and certainly their physical training really isnt needed in most cases. These guys are doing almost all missions on land nowadays - so it really does not matter how long they can hold their breath under water, or whether they can run 50 miles per day and sleep 5 hrs in 7 days. You're just not going to get those types of conditions in a mission environment. If anything, if the Seals have a tough mission to accomplish - their commanding officers are going to make sure guys have gotten enough sleep and are in perfect condition to go execute the plan.

Yuppers, they are like "Aww them accents are sure cute!"

You're taking a dump and they call GQ do you pinch it off or finish your business?

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not even remotely true. Delta training isn't really that long. or tough. dispite what people on here like to say.


seal training is atleast between 2 and 3 years long. you also have to have been in the military for at least 2 years before you are ever allowed to even attempt seal training unless you get a waiver.

HELL weak is stated to be the toughest week of any physical training Bar none worldwide
you don't even get to sleep you get to take a brake for 5 min every hour for an entire week so after 7 days you might get 14 hours of rest out of 168 hours


when you compare DELTA AND SEAL team six

Delta is the elite of the united states army special forces otherwise known by there headgear the GREEN BERET seal team six is the Elite of the united states navy seals

these two groups are the opposite counterparts of each other both specializing in counterterrorism


this is the primary roles of DELTA

hostage rescue
counter-terrorism
direct action
reconnaissance

Navy seals

Primary role

Direct action,
special reconnaissance,
counter terrorism,
foreign internal defense,
maritime operations

Other roles,
Counter-drug operations,
hostage rescue,
personnel recovery,
hydrographic reconnaissance


whats interesting is that people always say Delta is the absolute best when the seals specialize in the exact same *beep* plus more

DELTA has absolutely 4 major roles where in the navy seals have 5 major roles plus 4 other basic roles. this means they have in total 9 roles they specialize in

You have no idea what you're talking about. You can go to the SEALs straight out of training.

Delta prefers recruiting people who have at least one combat tour under their belt, and the training exceeds that of the SF (who pretty much get their pick). They are FAR more than a "intelligence" group.

With that being said, there really is no answer to who is better. They both excel at their areas of expertise.

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