- Outgoing vice chief of naval operations, Adm. William K Lescher, ordered an investigation into the selection course for Navy SEALS on August 31
- He asked investigators to focus on safety measures, the qualifications of instructors and medical personnel and its drug testing policy
- Lescher also asked them to find what, if anything, had changed after Kyle Mullen, 24, died just hours after completing the Hell Week part of the course
- Mullen died of bacterial pneumonia, which drowned him in his own bodily fluids
- He and 40 of his classmates were later found to have been taking steroids to get through the course
- Sailors say it has only gotten worse since former SEAL Team Six commander Capt. Bradley Geary was put in charge and made his friends instructors
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