I want to preface this in saying that this isn't meant to stir shit or be a dick measuring contest. Anyone who wears a tan/green beret or trident or whatever is hard as fuck as far as I'm concerned.
But this is just an indisputable fact that anyone who has done a decent amount of research about SOF selection has noticed: BUD/S has a much higher drop rate. I'm not talking about performance drops or med, just dudes straight up saying "fuck this".
Other selections seem to have more performance drops than quitters, see SFAS and ITC (MARSOC A&S) 21 day non selects. Most dudes in BUD/S just quit.
I know plenty of hard mf's who have gone and completed their respective selections and the BUD/S studs ROUTINELY graduate with under 20 original dudes, and that is not at all true for RASP, SFAS, etc. All of these selections start with 100+ dudes. I often get word of other selections graduating in the 100s.
RASP reports a 50% RASP pass rate, SFAS has 40%, and BUD/S reports 10%, and a majority of those are DORs. I have even seen stories of Recon dudes, the closest cousins of SEALs training wise DOR in BUD/S, so I don’t think we can just blame this on water
Combine that with the fact that guys often quit BUD/S and then go on to pass other SOF selections, and it just begs the question, what the fuck is it with BUD/S?