What Navy SEAL Training Was Like The Moment 9/11 Happened

Rich Graham was isolated in the California desert during the third phase of Navy SEAL training when an instructor announced that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. After all the mind games they had already endured during hell week, the class assumed it was another prank. Then the second tower was hit, and the instructors told them, “boys, we’re going to war.” Rich recalls the surreal morning of 9/11 and how the energy, intensity, and purpose of their training changed instantly.