I was USMC from 2006 to 11, as is my youngest brother currently and my other brother left the navy in 2014.
Without hinting at classified information of which i personally know very little.. the USA sends special ops teams into countries.. at the rate of about 100-300 operations a year.
Last number I heard which is pretty solid, was that within the first 5 months of 2018 iirc.. we had already sent special ops teams into over 100 countries. and i don't mean spies, i mean kill the target and leave quickly.
A typical amphibious operation is that you launch your special ops team from a submarine via various methods.. they land on a beach, change out of their wet suits.. bury them, assault the target.. escape back to the beach, dig up the wet suits.. swim out into the ocean, and get picked up again.
its a 4 day long operation and no you do not sleep for those 96 hours. not sure why it is typically 4 days but that is probably the sweet spot where non illegal stimulants can keep you awake that long without killing you, while maximizing the amount of time you have to memorize all the details you need to successfully kill the target without getting caught and then stay awake long enough to report to your senior officers what exactly happened and what went wrong.
i did actually consider signing up for MARSOC in 2009 but had a general gut feeling that i wasn't up for it.... probably a good thing.
my brother's testimony of the navy seals seems to match what i heard in the usmc through other channels.
I have a friend of mine, very depressed.. but also an academic studied hermeneutics for 30 years. he was quite confident that the cia was in fact actually held accountable for their actions and he thought that the us gov's official explanation for what happened on 9/11 was accurate. i don't believe any of that for an instant lol.
as for the alleged dark night of the soul.. some folks describe that experience differently than others but i fear that much of it is not legitimate. yes you have to face your own corruption. but the disconnect you experience from God during that process is directly correlated to your refusal to admit your own corruption and some folks seem to romanticize this experience.
i once saw a rather lengthy post by a man on reddit who was crying out to God for salvation for years and not getting it. in effect, he was experiencing something similar to the so called "dark night of the soul" before he was even saved. i knew that i could not provide him any advice but i did pray about it and heard "i am showing him how evil he is"
i told a friend of mind and he instantly accepted it and said what amounts to: "yes.. that is a very hard place to be" "but it is a legitimate place and God has a reason to do that"
“The Dark Night of The Soul”. GOD the FATHER is The One who Leads you. So many pastors and teachers book writers, Doctors, Psychiatrist, everybody making money . And explaining it. I do not think so.
This place is real! Just like, Example: Jesus is 100% Man, & 100% GOD

at the same time.
Meaning, His Humanity is on site, but His Deity is Everywhere. And at the same time.
Sorry for This: John Calvin said: Most of Christianity’s GOD, is To small: their minds have Limitations on “The TRUE GOD.”
[I paraphrased it for him].
And we who are Born of GOD, do you remember before you were Born from Above, it was only the Soul and The Flesh [Body]. Together.
And When Jesus the Life giving Spirit Give Us Another, The New SPIRIT from Heaven. Now in Us.
There are 3 now. The Body, The Soul, and That Life SPIRIT, That Power, That New Creature [Pneumatic] In us, Which Empower Our SOUls, Like The Energizing Bunny!
Our Souls are Charge powered Up, And It Will, Get Up! From The DEAD! Being Empowered by That SPIRIT! he Gave us, at Spirit Birth.
For Many, The Word Soul is NOTHING But A “WORD” and a name.
The Event of:
The DARK Night of The Soul Has Absolutely Nothing To do with SIN! For It is About “GOD”! And who HE Is!
When You Come Through you Have No Religious Faith in GOD or CHRIST. That Faith Dies! It cannot exists, it is dead.
A person that go Through will not speak about Faith, because Faith in GOD And Jesus died.
Just that one paragraph I just said: it is what we call a “GOD” paragraph!
If you think one picture speaks a Thousands words

Death speaks more.
When one come through,
And when they Talk they will not be talking about Faith!
Faith cannot come up into their Vocabulary!
It Died! There is no Faith to stand on, It Died and rotted away!
Not saying Faith is bad, but Faith is Good, without Faith How Could one “Trust” GOD? Faith must come 1st.
BUT Solid TRUST, whether you make it or Not! Whether you sink or swim, it is alright, if the SUN falls, or rather it Rise, it is alright, if Cancer comes, it is alright, I will embrace my cancer and hold it tenderly with Compassion, why Because, “I TRUST HIM”!, with open arms.
Like I told the Church women, you better not pray for my mother to get well from her Cancer! My Mother is Ready to Go Home and She is Happy, She Got Cancer and Heading Home Crying Out Loud “Thank you JESUS” I am Coming Home!
The Doctors and The Nurses, said. They have never seen nothing like That!
The Chaplins start crying, saying we are supposed to be counseling you, y’all are counseling us!
And I said, she ain’t going speak to you chaplains , she turn her face and look out the window when she saw them!
And told me to remake her hospital bed back up, because the Nurses did not know how to make it up.
My Father Taught me How to Make A bed up “Military” style since I was a little kid, flip that penny!
I have been making up beds every since before I wash my face! Over 65 years.
When you go through “The Dark Night of The Soul” your Faith dies!
Solid TRUST takes place, and That Anchor Holds, Hope maketh not ashamed.
I don’t have no faith left, it died somewhere around 1985, 86.
I was Born of God and Filled With Holy Ghost in 1977 May or April just before Easter, I had a whole lot of Faith, move Mountians

a big mouth too!
But In The Year about 1985 or 86. “A Darkness Appeared upon The Face of The Deep”
I remember, saying to myself, “what is this”? No body every told me or mention to me about this.
It took about maybe 3-4 years to go through, The whole Bible is in you. And when you come out, The Words seems as if The Words of The Book is Singing It’s Song to You, Open Pages.
No Matter What Happens I Don’t Care, Houses lands, Sons, Daughters, Mother, Father I TRUST HIM!
When you go through “The Dark Night Of The SOUl”. You can not Pray GOD has Stop your praying

But you can read that Bible and you will not climb through the window in that Book. In The Dark You Can Hear The Voice of Your FATHER, Teaching you HIS Voice, and Trusting His Tone, Because There no such Darkness you could ever imagine. And if you have not been there, or only experience some dark parts or passages in parts of your dark life, like we all have, shared in many dark nights and days, which will be many.
But This place, The One Your Father wants you to be! For The Child of GOD, everything in this Life is For molding us For The Life That is to Come,
This Universe Nothing but “Futile” made for Vanity and it really doesn’t matter and never will be remember as if it never existed. This sorrow will pass away.
This place is,“Futile”!
Made for only 1 purpose then cast away like a untimely mold.
“The Dark Night of The Soul” is not a Psychological place. it is Real place, A place of Preparation, where we all will be. The ones who will love HIS appearing.
All Stars in the Universe are not shade the Same and not The Same.
So will we be. For all hairs are not The same, all hairs are different, not One Hair, since The Beginning of Time has Been the same.
So will we all be, what shall we be? I do not know, but each mold is different. And these body’s will go back to dirt is from where they came and it will be where they will return.
Yes, when one go through The Dark Night of The Soul is he or she different from others? Yes!
Just like The Different kinds of Angels in Heaven. but They are Different but The Same. And No less “Glorious” Than The Next Star in “Glory”
If would be Futile to add or suggest or Scribe such a knowledge of That place, For There are no words to describe on earth that Attempt to even dare to explain unless one has been there. Nothing is psychologically or anything or in Humanity can go there. The words must me “Anthropomorphic”
To even get a hint of Discovery.
Thanks for your information.
And I did my best to Clarify:
“The Dark Night Of The Soul”
That so many have Tried with so many versions as if a “Translation or Paraphrase” of The Bible’s. the “LBTGQ”, & Women bibles. I think they have more version out Than “ Baskins & Robbins”.
We all, who are his, are meant for that which is in “Eternity” and created in that which is in “Futility”.
We are Eternal Creatures, now, The Earthly cannot excite us! for The Earthly “Misses The Mark”!
“No way can The Earthly entertain That Which is Eternal”
Shalom
PS sorry for “
The Short Story”