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A Navy spokesman declined to comment on Seaman Mullen's death or on allegations of widespread drug use, saying it would be inappropriate to do so before the reports are released and Seaman Mullen's family is briefed on their findings.
一名海军发言人拒绝对马伦的死亡或对军内存在普遍用药的指控发表评论，并表示在发布报告以及将调查发现告知马伦的家人之前，发表评论是不合适的。
Still, the prevalence of drugs at BUD/S has some men in the top reaches of the SEALs deeply unnerved -- not just because drugs may have contributed to the death of a sailor, but also because they see their spread, and the lack of discipline and order it implies, as a threat to the entire SEAL organization that could grow in unpredictable and ugly ways.
不过，药品在基本水中爆破训练(BUD/S)中的泛滥让海豹突击队高层的一些人深感不安----不仅是因为用药可能导致了一名队员的死亡，还因为他们将药品的盛行，以及这所暗示的缺乏纪律和秩序，视为对整个海豹突击队组织构成的威胁，日后可能会以不可预测和丑陋不堪的方式发展下去。
Sailors who enter the program bolstered by steroids and hormones can push harder, recover faster and probably beat out the sailors who are trying to become SEALs while clean, said one senior SEAL leader with multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
一名曾多次在伊拉克和阿富汗作战的海豹突击队高级指挥官说，靠类固醇和激素支撑着进入训练项目的士兵可以更迅猛地挺进，更快地恢复体力，也可能会击败那些试图成为海豹突击队成员，但没有用药的士兵。
The inevitable effect, he said, is that a course designed to select the very best will end up selecting only the very best cheaters, and steadily fill the SEAL teams with war fighters who view rules as optional. "What am I going to do with guys like that in a place like Afghanistan?" said the leader. "A guy who can do 100 pull-ups but can't make an ethical decision?"
他说，不可避免的后果是，一门旨在选拔最优秀人才的课程最终只会选出最优秀的作弊者，并逐渐地让海豹突击队中充斥着视规则为可有可无的作战人员。"在阿富汗这样的地方，要这样一些人有什么用?"这位指挥官说，"能做100个引体向上，却不能做出合乎道德的决定?"
The Navy has so far been officially silent about the discovery of drug use at BUD/S.
到目前为止，海军官方对在基本水中爆破训练中发现的药品使用问题保持沉默。
Details of Seaman Mullen's death and the subsequent drug sweep, many of them reported here for the first time, are based on interviews with Navy leaders, medical staff, enlisted SEALs and recent BUD/S candidates.
关于马伦之死和随后的药品检查，其中许多细节都是在这里首次被报道，这些细节是基于对海军领导人、医务人员、海豹突击队成员和最近参加基本水中爆破训练的候选人的采访。
All of them spoke on the condition that they not be identified by name, because they were not authorized to comment publicly.
这些人采访时都要求不具名，因为他们无权公开发表评论。
Without comprehensive testing, there is no way to assess the full extent of the drug use in the program. But more than a dozen current and former candidates described a culture in which drugs have become deeply embedded in the selection course over the last decade.
如果没有全面的检测，就没有办法全面评估训练项目中使用药品的情况。但超过12位现任和前任候选人描述了这种文化：在过去10年，药品在选拔课程中已经根深蒂固。
SEAL leaders say they don't have the authority to start a testing program to attack the problem. They formally requested permission from the Navy in June to start testing all candidates but are still awaiting a response.
海豹突击队的领导表示，他们没有权力启动检测项目来全力处理这一问题。今年6月，他们正式向海军提出申请，要求开始检测所有候选人，但目前仍在等待回应。
Meanwhile, the drugs are there. One young sailor who went through BUD/S in May said that many would-be SEALs had come to believe that the course was too hard to complete without drugs.
与此同时，药品依然存在。今年5月参加过基本水中爆破训练的一名年轻队员说，许多想成为海豹突击队队员的人都认为，不使用药品就很难完成这训练课程。
Despite Seaman Mullen's death, he said, some sailors were still using illicit performance enhancers -- in particular, a group of unregulated supplements called SARMS that are difficult to detect.
他说，尽管马伦去世了，一些队员仍然在使用非法的体能增强剂----尤其是一组被称为SARMS的不受监管的补剂，这些补剂很难被检测出来。
