High_Gravity
Belligerent Drunk
Pretty difficult to hold any meaningful discussion without knowing your experience level. Taking a wild SWAG here, but it seems that you're basing a lot of your views on whatever you've been able to read from open source materials. And that's fair enough.
What SFC Ollie, High Gravity, Trajan, Quantum Windbag and others are saying, based on their backgrounds and first hand experiences, is that there is a lot more to being a SEAL than standing in cold water or going without sleep. And none of us are going to hint or reveal anything classified to satisfy your curiosity. Suffice it to say that if you want to believe that SEALs are antiquated, old-fashioned and not needed, go right ahead. No one is trying to change your mind.
However, you should at least acknowledge that there is a classified side to what the SEALs do. And if someone who has had some exposure to the Dark Side says that there's a lot more than meets the eye, then you should at least consider that there's more to it than just tradition, testosterone and bravado when it comes to the SEALs and the rest of the special ops community.
Whether you want to believe this or not, the military is a highly efficient institution. Yeah, we all make our jokes about some of the silly things we've seen, but combat has no forgiveness for stupidity. Combat forces the military to be successful. If the SEALs were truly outdated and unnecessary, the Pentagon would have phased them out a long time ago.
Thank you, all this guy keeps talking about is the SEALS falling asleep in water and getting hypothermia.
And that's probably some footnote in a book he attempted to read. Or out of some movie.
He probably watched the Navy Seals training documentary on the Military channel.