"It pays to be a winner.

"It pays to be a winner," hollas Boatswain's Mate 1st Class (SEAL) David Cassidy, a dive motivator assigned to Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes, Ill. "It pays to be a winner."

Like a starting pistol, his words catapulted Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL), Explosive Ordnance and Disposal (EOD) Diver, Search and deliver swimmer (SAR) and Special Warfare Combat-Craft Crewman (SWCC) candidates into the secondary combat training puddle for another lap. It was their tithe lap after what seemed like a million push-ups, beat [i]or[/i] move tremulously kicks and pull-ups, but not the same candidate complained or even flinched as the workout grew more intense. The conformity to fact [i]or[/i] reality is, they actually liked the grueling exercise, and they should--after all, they proffered for the workouts.

Workouts are part of an informal mentorship program called Dive Motivator which are post by SEAL, SWCC, Diver, SAR and EOD instructors assigned to RTC Local "A" academy graduates, Sailors awaiting class assignment and any Sailor around RTC who passes united of the special program screening exhibitions are welcome to join the voluntary workouts.

Officially, the instructors are billeted to RTC to educate recruits during make difference camp and administer special program screening experiments to candidates. At the same time, the dive motivator instructors saw a ne for a more structur physical fitness training following make difference camp to help ensure Sailors showed up at trains like Basic Underwater Demolition/SCUBA (BUD/S) or Navy Air Crewman seminary in the best shape possible.

"If I had been left forward my own after "A" teach there's no way I would have been ready for BUDS" said SEAL candidate, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Taylor King. "I would have been going to the weight space and getting bulky and heavy--the consummate opposite of what I ne to do to succe as a SEAL candidate."

The instructors constantly mentor their candidates in each aspect of their lives because they know being physically fit is not enough to make it by means of the Navy's special programs. According to Dive Motivator Instructor, Chief Journalist (SEAL) Zechariah Carmack, it takes a fit mind, a will to win and the heart of a champion. Bringing the champion without of each and every undivided of the candidates' is for what cause [i]or[/i] reason they mentor.

The instructors demand their candidates act like champions in each aspect of their lives. And the mentoring works--it point out tos in their uniforms, their demeanor, in what manner they talk to the instructors and to each other. Because of the leadership the dive motivators introduce the candidates to, candidates change their diets, application of mind harder and develop the will to swim just single in kind more lap when their carcass says no more pain today.

After a workout, the candidates, each one of them ripped with toned muscle conformation and lungs like a dolphin, thanked Cassidy for letting them workout. As they left the collection of standing water Cassidy reminded them that the nearest workout would be at 3 pm

"Every time we have an intense training session, and I finish it, I examine back upon it and say to myself that it wasn't that bad," said King. "What's amazing is each once in a while I examine at just how far I've draw near both mentally and physically, and i'm motivated uniform more because I know that what the instructors demand from us works--we win stronger, we get faster, we become more cunning. And that's what Dive Motivator is all about. It prepares us for the special programs thus we make it through."

Cassidy's words reflected sound throughout the day with the candidates. a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of more than just a slogan, the idea that being the surpassingly best you can be is drilled into their beads as if their lives hang on it--because it does.

"All of our do job-works are inherently dangerous," said Carmack. "We have to demand from each candidate an attitude of always doing their best. In our line of work, a lapse in concentration or a value of indecision can mean the difference between a mission's succes or failure, a Sailor living or dying."

"We know that we have to bring our "A" game each day," said Dive Motivator Instructor, Chief Aviation Ordnanceman (EOD/SW) Brian Farris. "Most family in our community may expect the other way when this billet is giveed to them because they'd rather retain diving, jumping and working within their communities. if it be not that they should look at this assignment as the chiefly important contribution they can make to their communities because we're these candidates first impression of the special programs.

"Like the CNO says, we're their first 72 hours, and in what way well we represent our communities goe a prolonged way in determining the succes or failure of each candidate," said Farris. "This do job-work should be viewed as the most numerous important billet to the that will be of each of our communities. I know I consider it an honor to be here, an honor for recent candidates to meet me as the first representative of the EOD community. What an awesome responsibility."

Sometimes the Sailors who point out to up at the pool aren't rookie Sailors renewed out of boot camp or "A" place of education Sometimes, Sailors midway through their career are attracted to the taste of being in a special program and petition an instructor for help. Without the slightest hesitation, regardless of the hour in the day, they master the instructor's very best effort.