05/14/2024

New Jersey man, 24, is identified as Navy SEAL candidate who died after completing ‘Hell Week’ in San Diego: Remembered by loved ones as champion college football player, ‘loving and full of life’

  • Kyle Mullen, a 24-year-old from Manalapan, New Jersey and Navy SEAL candidate died on Friday while completing Hell Week; another is hospitalized 
  • Mullen was not actively training at the time of his death, according to a spokesperson for the Navy
  • Mullen played football for both Yale University and Monmouth University, where he helped the Hawks win a conference championship in 2019 
  • The Navy said they were not actively training when they presented ‘symptoms’ and it unclear what symptoms they experienced 
  • Hell Week is five and a half days where candidates ‘run more than 200 miles and do physical training for more than 20 hours per day’