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What do you do when a training program is abusive by its nature?   This is the dilemma of the Navy's SEAL training designed to weed out 50% to 60% of candidates in its normal course.  Sailors are put through hell in a week where they sleep but four hours and exercise constantly.  It's the Navy's message to candidates that they are élite if they survive. Sadly, some of them don't, as this report indicates. The question for the trainers is how to push men beyond the extremes of pain without killing them?  The program is meant to be harmful but not deadly.  It's a conundrum the Navy will need to resolve -- and soon.