Coleman Ruiz

Some people quit.

I don't know how many go to what we used to call mini-buds in the summer between junior and senior year.

You go out to Coronado and buds instructors, they still have it.

It's called something different.

You spend two weeks at the BUDS compound.

They run you through a mini program.

The acronym is Basic Underwater Demolition SEAL School.

That's our school in Coronado.

Yeah.

And when you're at the Naval Academy, it's obviously different than guys coming into the enlisted ranks.

You have this pool of people, 150-ish guys say they want to go.

Sometime junior year, they run you through this weekend pretty hard at Navy.

because we have SEALs stationed at the Naval Academy.

And then I'm just going to guess that goes from 150 to 80.

Maybe 80 guys go to the summer program in Coronado when you're still, you know, a midshipman at the Naval Academy.

I've never – maybe people have quit minibuds.

I don't know.

But I don't know if I really saw anybody quit the two weeks we were out in Coronado.

And then you get graded on your performance and stuff.

And then you come back for senior year and you go through a series of interviews with a bunch of SEALs who come out and do interviews and you don't really know what you're doing.