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Right, I gathered that, but I didn't want to count you as a friend only to have you tell me to take a running jump into an unknown impact point.not the truth...
Not the truth...
Jan, until 2002 a SEAL team consisted of eight operational SEAL platoons and a headquarters element.... Nowadays a SEAL team has six platoons... A SEAL platoon is normally commanded by a Navy Lieutenant (O-3) and consists of 16 SEAL's and may divide into two squads or four elements.... All SEAL platoon personnel are dive, parachute, and demolitions qualified....
Not the truth...
Still telling false information...
Props for doing what you did, you have more cool points than I'll ever get.And just what the fu*k does that mean???
Jan, until 2002 a SEAL team consisted of eight operational SEAL platoons and a headquarters element.... Nowadays a SEAL team has six platoons... A SEAL platoon is normally commanded by a Navy Lieutenant (O-3) and consists of 16 SEAL's and may divide into two squads or four elements.... All SEAL platoon personnel are dive, parachute, and demolitions qualified....
SEAL teams are allocated to a specific operational region.... Basically there are two kind of teams, West Coast and East Coast Teams.....
The eight teams allow a more stable continuous deployment cycle... One team from each coast will be deployed overseas for six months... This team will be successively relieved by other teams as they complete their 18-month interdeployment training cycles.....
In each cycle, the SEAL's will train as individuals for six months and for another six months as SEAL teams.... Six months before deployment, the teams will be joined by Special Boat detachments, SEAL delivery vehicles, mobile communications teams, tactical crypto logic support personnel, and explosive ordnance disposal personnel.... These teams will be designated as Naval Special Warfare squadrons and train together before deploying as a unit.....
When I was in, there were 6 Teams and one designated for Anti-Terrorist Ops, sometimes called SEAL Team 6... We just referred to them as Red Cell...
West Coast Teams
SEAL Team 1
SEAL Team 3
SEAL Team 5
East Coast Teams
SEAL Team 2
SEAL Team 4
SEAL Team 8
Today there are 8 Teams and The Naval Special Warfare Development Group, (DEVGRU)...
West Coast Teams
SEAL Team 1
SEAL Team 3
SEAL Team 5
SEAL Team 7
East Coast Teams
SEAL Team 2
SEAL Team 4
SEAL Team 8
SEAL Team 10
Stitch, The SOPMOD package was introduced to SF units just when I got out.... Ive played with one but never used one in combat situations.... I was not overly impressed with it....
We basically had our choice of gear, and I stayed with the AK-47 when deployed, as well as a sawed off butt-ended 12 gauge shotgun carried in a special holster over my back/shoulder.... I carried a .45 Colt as a sidearm, nothing special about it...
Sometimes due to Operational Requirements, we would change up our gear... I dont like the M-16/M-4... Never have, never will.... When one jams on u when u got a bunch of baddies out front, u'll understand....
A Marine I knew in college liked to say "Heroes are dead people, don't be a hero."Thanks Clay, just did the job I was trained for....
The smallest unit is a 4 man element or fire team, and this was not used very much...
There were 4 sides to myself and several other guys in the Detachments that used the AK...
One was the stopping power of the 7.62 round, another was the reliability, third was the fact that it didnt sound "American", and lastly, that ammo was always around if u needed it...
The only "Hero" types I knew in the Teams were the guys who rang the Bell in BUDs... There are no heros in the SEAL Team Community Stitch....
The only "Hero" types I knew in the Teams were the guys who rang the Bell in BUDs... There are no heros in the SEAL Team Community Stitch....
I wonder whatever happened to modesty.
Ya know what Kraut person?? My husband is one of the MOST humble SEALs I have had the privilege of knowing..quite modest about the fact that he is a bad as* Motherf*cker. In my personal opinion he has NO reason to be modest about anything, he was out there with his life on the line for ungrateful f*cks just like you!
I'll use a simple quote to sum up the fact that you just chapped MY as*.."it ain't braggin if you can back it up."
He sure did not have his life on the line for the ungrateful f*ck that is me. Your wars are your wars. I served my time in my country's army. And from that time I also happe to know some Legionnaires. Who were not only good soldiers, but also polite and modest. One of the was in constant deployment for at least a decade, often under worst conditions and without fancy equipment. Lost two fingers and had his arms and chest were covered with 3rd degree burnings. Never told about it, never bragged about anything.
But as usual, you can't critizise the behaviour of someone who is in the armed forces or else you are unpatriotic, ungrateful, disrespecting or whatnot. What a nonsense.