Global InformationUnited States Navy SEALs information
| United States Navy SEALs | |
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 Special Warfare insignia known as the "SEAL Trident" | |
| Active | 1 January 1962 – present (62 years, 3 months) |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Navy |
| Type | Special operations force |
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| Garrison/HQ | Naval Amphibious Base Coronado Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek |
| Nickname(s) | "Frogmen", "The Teams", "Team Guys", "The Men with Green Faces"[1] |
| Motto(s) | "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday"[2] "It Pays To Be A Winner". "Never Out Of The Fight". |
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The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments. SEALs are typically ordered to capture or kill high-level targets, or to gather intelligence behind enemy lines.[7] SEAL team personnel are hand-selected, highly trained, and possess a high degree of proficiency in direct action (DA), and special reconnaissance (SR), among other tasks like sabotage, demolition, intelligence gathering, and hydro-graphic reconnaissance, training, and advising friendly militaries or other forces.[8]
Depending on the availability of platforms, threat level, and environment, different methods can be used for the insertion and extraction of SEALs into a target location. This could include nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines equipped with dry deck shelters, SDV submarines, surface vessels, surface swimming, or other vehicles.
All active SEALs are members of the U.S. Navy.[12] The CIA's highly secretive and elite Special Operations Group (SOG) recruits operators from SEAL Teams,[13] with joint operations going back to the MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War.[14] This cooperation still exists today, as evidenced by military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.[15][16]
- ^ Wentz, Gene; Jurus, B. Abell (1993). Men in Green Faces. St. Martin's Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0312950521.
- ^ ""The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday" Navy SEALs (Sea, Air & Land)" (PDF). America's Navy. US Navy. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
- ^ "Larry Wilske". 2 July 2019.
- ^ "US joins battle as Philippines takes losses in besieged city". CNBC. 10 June 2017.
- ^ "Marawi siege: US special forces aiding Philippine army". BBC News Online. 10 June 2017.
- ^ Dancel, Raul (11 June 2017). "US special forces aid Philippine troops in battle for Marawi". The Straits Times.
- ^ "The difference between Navy SEALs and other military units". ATACLETE. 11 January 2023. Retrieved 3 February 2023.
- ^ "SEAL Requirements". Navy Seals.com. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- ^ Laster, Jill (July 2011). "Program letting Coasties train as SEALs on hold". Navy Times.
- ^ [7][9][10][11]
- ^ Waller, Douglas (3 February 2003). "The CIA's Secret Army". Time. Archived from the original on 9 May 2007.
- ^ Plaster, John L. (1997). SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0684811055.
- ^ Haney, Eric L. (2002). Inside Delta Force. New York: Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0385732512.
- ^ "Army Officer Recalls Hunt for Bin Laden". 60 Minutes. CBS News. 5 October 2008.