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- INTRODUCTION
- What is " SEALs Team SIX"
- HISTORY OF FOUNDATION
- The Recruitment- “The Brave Men Who Went to Virginia”
- The Brutal Selection- “THE HELLS WEEK”
- The Elite Training Course- “the birth of true killing machine”
- “CALL OF DUTY”- The Jobs of ST-6
- WEAPONS AND FIREARMS USED BY SEAL TEAM 6
- Tactical Gears
- Special Operation Vehicle and Aircraft
- WHY PEOPLE WANT TO JOIN THE TEAM?
- REFERRENCES
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REFERRENCES
WHY PEOPLE WANT TO JOIN THE TEAM?
Alright, there you have it, the insight look of U.S Navy SEALs Team 6. Now as I approaching the end of my blog, I have to answer the question regarding why people are dying to be part of team.
Well in my understanding, citizen of USA are very patriotic and joining the team seem to be the highest level of service that American could contribute to their nation. SEALs Team 6, like other branches of military have taken the oath to protect U.S.A from enemy, foreign and domestic and SEALS TEAM 6 answer directly to President of The United States.
Next, SEALS TEAM 6 is the world-elite group of soldiers and the skills that they learned in years of training is extremely valuable. Most of them who retired quickly signing in with private military company due to their lucrative income. Private military company nowadays are involved in every major conflict in the world and they surely needs someone with years of military background to work as their employees.
Well in my understanding, citizen of USA are very patriotic and joining the team seem to be the highest level of service that American could contribute to their nation. SEALs Team 6, like other branches of military have taken the oath to protect U.S.A from enemy, foreign and domestic and SEALS TEAM 6 answer directly to President of The United States.
Next, SEALS TEAM 6 is the world-elite group of soldiers and the skills that they learned in years of training is extremely valuable. Most of them who retired quickly signing in with private military company due to their lucrative income. Private military company nowadays are involved in every major conflict in the world and they surely needs someone with years of military background to work as their employees.
Special Operation Vehicle and Aircraft
SEAL Team Six are able to be deployed in any location fast because they utilize the highly-customized vehicles and aircraft. These transportation is vital for them to maintain the element of surprise when launching any strike at any enemy, as well as be able to survive the combat.
Tactical Gears
SEAL TEAM 6 will not survive in combat with weapons alone. Thus they also need protections, and equipment that allow them to operates at night. Members of SEAL Team Six are using some of the world best tactical gears that make them a deadly warriors
ST-6 armed with HK 416 equipped with holographic sight |
Kevlar vest |
Tactical Gears |
Diving equipment |
Invisible laser sight |
Night Vision Google |
WEAPONS AND FIREARMS USED BY SEAL TEAM 6
MP7 SUBMACHINE GUN |
SAW MACHINEGUN |
MK18 CQB |
HK 416 Assault rifle |
“CALL OF DUTY”- The Jobs of ST-6
When SEAL Team Six was first
created it was devoted exclusively to counter-terrorism with a worldwide
maritime responsibility; its objectives typically included targets such as
ships, oil rigs, naval bases, coastal embassies, and other civilian or military
bases that were accessible from the sea or inland waterways.
On certain operations small teams
from SEAL Team Six were tasked with covertly infiltrating international high
risk areas in order to carry out reconnaissance or security assessments of U.S.
military facilities and embassies; and to give advice on improvements in order
to prevent casualties in an event of a terrorist attack.
Although the unit was created as a
maritime counter-terrorism unit, it has become a multi-functional special
operations unit with multiple roles that include high-risk personnel/hostage
extractions. Such operations include the successful rescue of Jessica Buchanan
and Poul Hagen Thisted, the attempted rescue of Linda Norgrove, the successful
rescue of American doctor Dilip Joseph[39] and in 1991 the successful recovery of
Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family during a coup that
deposed him.
After SEAL Team Six was disbanded
and renamed, the official mission of the currently operating Naval Special
Warfare Development Group is to test, evaluate, and develop technology and
maritime, ground, and airborne tactics applicable to Naval Special Warfare
forces such as Navy SEALs; however, it is presumed this is a small part of the
group's work assignment and more of a cover.
DEVGRU's full mission is classified
but is thought to include pre-emptive, pro-active counter-terrorist operations,
counter-proliferation (efforts to prevent the spread of both conventional
weapons and weapons of mass destruction), as well as the elimination or
recovery of high-value targets (HVTs) from unfriendly nations. DEVGRU is one of
a handful of U.S. Special Mission Units authorized to use pre-emptive actions
against terrorists and their facilities
DEVGRU and the Army's Delta Force train and
deploy together on counter-terrorist missions usually as part of a joint
special operations task force.
The Elite Training Course- “the birth of true killing machine”
Like all Special Operations Forces
units that have an extremely intensive and high-risk training schedule, there
can be serious injuries and deaths. SEAL Team Six/DEVGRU has lost several
operators during training, including parachute accidents and close-quarters
battle training accidents. It is presumed that the unit's assessment process
for potential new recruits is different from what a SEAL operator experienced
in his previous career, and much of the training tests the candidate's mental
capacity rather than his physical condition, as he will have already completed
Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL or the Navy EOD training pipeline.
Candidates are put through a
variety of advanced training courses led by civilian or military instructors.
These can include free-climbing, land warfare, communications, advanced unarmed
combat techniques, defensive and offensive driving, advanced diving, and
Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. All candidates must
perform at the top level during selection, and the unit instructors evaluate
the candidate during the training process. Selected candidates are assigned to
one of the Tactical Development and Evaluation Squadrons; the others are
returned to their previous units. Unlike the other regular SEAL Teams, SEAL
Team Six operators were able to go to almost any of the best schools anywhere
and train in whatever they wanted depending on the unit's requirements.
The Brutal Selection- “THE HELLS WEEK”
Candidates must pass three-days of
physical and psychological testing that includes a Physical Screening Test
(PST) where candidates must exceed the minimum requirements and perform at
their highest level possible. Candidates are then interviewed by an oral review
board to deem whether the candidate is suitable to undertake the selection
phase. Those who pass the stringent recruitment and selection process
will be selected to attend a six- to eight-month Operators Training Course.
Candidates will screen with the unit's
training wing known as "Green Team". The training course attrition
rate is high, usually around 50 percent; during one selection course, out of
the original 20 candidates, 12 completed the course. All candidates are watched closely by
DEVGRU instructors and evaluated on whether they are suitable to join the
individual squadrons.
Howard E. Wasdin, a former member of SEAL Team Six said in a
recent interview that 16 applied for SEAL Team Six selection course and two
were accepted. Those who
do not pass the selection phase are returned to their previous assignments and
are able to try again in the future.
The Recruitment- “The Brave Men Who Went to Virginia”
Okay guys, now I would like to tell you how a regular people
can be a apart of this elite team. For your information, U.S Navy only selects
candidates from only from the navy itself. Means that before a person can go
for the selection test, he need to enlist in the navy first. It is impossible
for a regular civilian to go straight to Damn Neck, Virginia and take the
selection test.
In the early stages of creating
SEAL Team Six, Marcinko was given six months to get ST6 up and running, or the
whole project would come to an end. This meant that there was a timing issue
and Marcinko had little time to create a proper selection course, similar to
that of Delta Force, and as a result hand-picked the first plankowners of the
unit after assessing their Navy records and interviewing each man. It has been
said that Marcinko regretted not having enough time to set up a proper
selection process and course.
All applicants came from the Underwater
Demolition Teams (UDTs) and East and West Coast SEAL teams. Marcinko's criteria
for recruiting applicants was combat experience so he would know they could
perform under fire; language skills were vital, as the unit would have a
worldwide mandate to communicate with the local population if needed; union
skills, to be able to blend in as civilians during an operation; and finally
SEAL skills. Members of SEAL Team Six were selected in part because of the
different specialist skills of each man.
HISTORY OF FOUNDATION
Alright guys, lets proceed with SEALs 101. In the previous
entry I have revealed what is SEALs Team Six and their ‘jobs description, so it
is the time to learn about their history of foundation.
Following the event of Iran hostage crisis in 1979, which
took place in U.S Embassy in Tehran which ended up pretty badly, U.S Navy saw
the need for a full-time counter-terrorism unit with special tactics and
equipment for specific operations.
Department of Defence had given the greenlight to U.S Navy
to begin the project and Richard Marcinko, U.S Navy representatives for Joint
Chief of Staff in the Iran hostage crisis is tasked of its design and
development.
The unit's plankowners were hand-picked by Marcinko from
throughout the UDT/SEAL community. SEAL Team Six became the U.S. Navy's premier
counter-terrorist unit. It has been compared to the U.S. Army's Delta Force.
Marcinko held the command of SEAL Team Six for three years, from 1980 to 1983,
instead of the typical two-year command in the Navy at the time. SEAL Team Six
was formally created in October 1980, and an intense, progressive work-up training
program made the unit mission-ready just six months later with only 75
operators.
What is " SEALs Team SIX"
I believe that most of you are still wondering about the
true nature of SEALs Team Six and here I am, highly enthusiast to share
everything that I know about these guys.
United States military has four branches in their armed
services, consisting Army, Navy, Air force and Marines. Each branch have
dedicated special operation forces which is tasked with specific mission. These
elite forces usually conducting high-risked operation and very secretive about
the nature of their jobs. Army have their own US Delta Force, Air Force utilize
their ground commando, U.S Marines with their recon team and of course, U.S
Navy with their own dedicated strike force, SEALs Team Six.
U.S DELTA FORCE |
U.S MARINES RECON TEAM |
U.S AIR FORCE COMMANDO |
U.S NAVY SEAL TEAM 6 |
SEALs Team Six or their official name, United States Naval
Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) is a U.S Navy component of Joint
Special Operation Command, the administration that synchronise the operations
in the U.S military.
SEALS Team Six and its Army counterpart, Delta Force, are
the United States Military’s primary counter-terrorism units. Although SEALs
Team Six usually operates in sea and coastal areas, with the growing threat of
global terrorism, the team has become a multi-functional special operations
unit that are deployed worldwide.
INTRODUCTION
Hello bloggers from around the world, How you are all doing?
My name is Muhammad Harizuddin a.k.a Sam and I am student from Mara
Professional College Indera Mahkota, Kuantan, Malaysia. Just so you know, I
have been tasked of creating a blog of any topic as an assignment for Digital
& Mobile Communication subject and I have taken the liberty to talk about
the elite special force team, United States Navy SEALs- Team 6.
Many people ask me why I chose this topic. Well I said to
them, “Why not???????”
SEAL Team 6 is highly trained, super-secret special
operations soldiers who are deployed to all over the world, yet there are not
much information about these guys. As matter of fact, the world only know about
their existence after a high-profile operation that brought the team to a
‘spotlight’, “Operation Neptune Spear” where American most-wanted terrorist,
Osama b. Laden had been located and terminated.
So, after weeks of conducting online researches, I am
“well-educated” enough to talk and share with the public about the team. So
here is my objectives for creating this blog which is dedicated only about SEAL
TEAM SIX:
1.
To introduce the public of the special forces
community
2.
To give the audience the insight looks of what
it takes to become an operator
3.
To explain the roles and responsibility of the
team
4.
To reveal the state-of-the-art weaponry and
equipment used by the team.
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