Divorce rate over 100%
The divorce rate in the SEAL teams exceeds 100% because many operators get remarried and divorced multiple times over their career.
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Navy SEAL: “Not Killing People Is Hard” - DJ Shipley - #1112
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Jun 18, 2026
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Electrocuted on Father's Day: The Walter Reed Detox and Near-Death
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Three weeks before retirement, DJ is severely electrocuted doing fracture art, shatters his collarbone, faces potential full-body muscle removal surgery, and transitions gimped-up with double arm slings. [1] — DJ Shipley "Three weeks before retirement, DJ Shipley grabbed live electrical cables in his backyard while his kids watched from the window. The electr…" 1:36:05
Electrocuted on Father's Day
Three weeks before retirement, DJ Shipley grabbed live electrical cables in his backyard while his kids watched from the window. The electricity shattered his collarbone, blew exit wounds out of his palms and thighs, threw him across the yard — and doctors said every muscle in his body might liquefy within hours.
The Over-100% Divorce Rate Nobody Talks About
The divorce rate in the SEAL teams exceeds 100% because operators keep getting remarried. His first troop chief was on his fifth. Most guys marry their high school sweetheart at 19, move her to a city with no support system, and disappear for 300 days a year. It's not cruelty — it's arithmetic.
Electrocuted Father's Day 2019
Three weeks before his retirement, DJ Shipley was electrocuted in his backyard while doing fracture art, shattering his collarbone and scapula and burning exit wounds into his hands, head, and thighs.
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