Ladies and Gentlemen,

                For those of you who are not aware Basic Under -water Demolition School / Seals (BUD/s) Class 270 Has just finished Hell Week, what is known to be the most challenging portion of BUD/s. This include 5.5 days of intense physical training with less than 5 hours of sleep. Class 270 entered Indoctrination With approximately 250 SEAL Candidates, when they began Phase of BUD/s  they had 190 Candidate. Going into Hell Week there were 84 candidates and when Hell Week was finally secured on Friday only 36 remained. Of these 36 was ENS Tyler Marshburn, USN a USMMA 2007 graduate. As further testament to his success, ENS Marshburn was ranked number 2 by peer evaluations. If any of you are interested in calling ENS Marshburn and congratulating him ,and find out about what Hell Week is really like you can reach him at 330-917-7317. Our Region SEAL Recruiting District Assistance Council (RDAC), lead By CAPT Bisset, USN who trained Marshburn prior to BUD/s,  also had 2 other members in class 270 one dropped on request during Hell Week and the Other who was the class Leading Petty Officer was injured and rolled to class 272.

Very Respectfully,

Midshipman David Schwartz 4/c

United States Merchant Marine Academy

Fourth Company