SEAL Qualification Training is designed to provide candidates with the core tactical knowledge they will need to join a SEAL platoon. Before graduation candidates attend survival, evasion, resistance and escape training. It is the intermediate skills course that prepares candidates for the advanced training they will receive once they arrive at a SEAL team.
SQT includes:
Weapons training
Small unit tacticss
Land navigation
Demolitions
Cold weather training
Medical skills
Maritime operations
Before graduating, candidates also attend SERE training:
Survival
Evasion
Resistance
Escape
SQT training will also qualify candidates in:
Static-line parachute operations
Freefall parachute operations ( (High Altitude-Low Opening “HALO” )
Freefall parachute operations ( High Altitude-High Opening “HAHO” )
Upon completing these requirements, trainees receive their SEAL Trident, designating them as Navy SEALs. They are subsequently assigned to a SEAL team to begin preparing for their first deployment.