In his magnificent commencement speech at the University of Texas at Austin in May, Navy Admiral William H. McRaven, a UT-Austin alumnus, shared with his audience the almost unimaginable rigors of Navy SEAL training. McRaven, a SEAL himself and now commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, told of being assigned to boat crews of seven students each, three on each side of a small rubber boat, with one coxswain to help guide the dinghy. McRaven is best known as the man who planned and directed the U.S.