He had to have a physical before this training.
He has the physical before they start the shots. You have a physical at MEPS, or whatever it is called now, and then a verification one at basic before the training starts. If he wasn't jabbed before shipping out, he got it after those physicals.
It could also just be Hell Week, there's a reason it is called Hell Week. This is when most injuries occur.
But his training had ended before this event.....
I don't recall at what point in the training Hell Week falls, but BUD/S is just one long stress test designed to expose mentally/physically weak people. It wouldn't matter that the training had ended and then had the event. That's when a lot of training injuries actually happen, they have a new normal and on something mundane are relaxed then BAM! rolled ankle or broken bone.
Either way, we'll never know the truth.
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