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....with one of these Special ops guys yesterday, they had his face blurred out to conceal his identity and branch of service, and the reporter asked if he had any problems with what he was sometimes required to do. His reply, "God judges people, we just arrange the meeting." These guys are the best.
 
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shows them training at Stennis Space Center. I had no idea that went on there. I guess they stay at the SeaBee base? Or do they stay in peoples backyards and flunk out if they get detected?
History channel (or Military or TLC?) had a special about the BUDS training at Coronado once. A lot of soaked, sandy, shivering guys hoisting a telephone pole in the dark while having "It's nice and warm up at the barracks. Just ring the bell and you can go there. YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO RING THAT BELL!" screamed at them. Apparently that's the first step of their training. Bad. Asses.
 
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but only after their drill instructors show them videos of shark attacks for about an hour. Then they immediately hit the water.

They know how to weed people out.
 
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jakldawg said:
shows them training at Stennis Space Center. I had no idea that went on there. I guess they stay at the SeaBee base? Or do they stay in peoples backyards and flunk out if they get detected?
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SBU-22 trains at Stennis on the Pearl River but members do not stay at the SeaBee base. They live like regular folk in the surrounding area if not on site (once had to drop a cop off at an out of town SEAL's house in the Waveland/BSL area so he could do surveillance--he was supposed to roll out of the prone passenger seat of my slowly rolling car, undetected at night, but we forgot to make sure the dome light wouldn't come on when the door opened, whoops). My former softball team played against theirs a few times. They are badasses but not in your face about it, they hit just as many pop flies as the rest of us. More here: http://www.warboats.org/SBU22.htm

You can often hear their firing exercises on the river/nearby and there have been a few employees spooked/surprised by them just appearing out of the woods at times. There's a former Starkvillian who is a SEAL team commander, not team 6 or SBU-22, and from what I remember of him in high school he was a stand up guy but not in your face about it, either. Married, has kids, lives like a normal guy except he could probably drop you with a pinkie stab or something.
 
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I was fishing with my Father on the Jourdan River and this badass boat come hauling *** down the river by us. I froze up with pride and fear at the same time. It was a camo center console, guessing around 25' - 30' long and it had twins on the back...looked like 300's. One man was arming what looked like a .50 cal and the others were carrying assault rifles. They smiled and waived as they passed by us. It was cool as hell and a moment I won't forget.
 
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A guy that plays golf with us from time to time was a Seal. He never will say anything about any of his missions, or whatever, which is understandable but you can look at him and tell he's been through some ****. He hasseveral penny size scars scattered all over him and is missing a small chunk out of his calf. He will only will talk about some of the training exercises they put them through and it is clearly obvious I wasn't meant to be a Seal.
 
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serving in Afghanistan at this very moment.

I asked and friend said he was not on the team that went in. He is in team (XX) and not team 6, which I have heard him say are "really badass guys."

This guy is like a sparkplug, but one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Everyone of those guys are special. If one of them gets hurt, they don't just replace them. They go without the missing guy util they get back stateside and can reform the team. My friend's son-in-law won a Silver Star. I don't know the full story, but it involved him carrying all his stuff anf a fellow SEAL for about 10 miles after he was wounded on a mission.

I hate to exagerate, but this guy can pop you at twothousand yards and will drop off a sub, swim two miles to the beach, walk 20 miles through mountains and lay in a ditch covered with brush for four days to have a chance at getting the shot. He has a wife, son and has been to Iraq twice, Afghanistan twice and spent six months in a ship off Somalia, leaving the ship in the middle of the might to go "to work" ashore every other week or so.

I have been told that the guys who dragged the helicopter crew's bodies around town (BlackhawkDown) and kicked them and strung them up were for the most part filmed in those TV shots we all saw. Almost all of them have been identified and they have beendisappearing with regularity over the years since that happened. I have been told it is considered an honor to be selected to use the knife in those eliminations. I have been told that one of them could be out for the evening with a few buds and simply disappear. When the friends turn around, he'd be gone and they would find him ten or twenty feet away with his throat cut.

These guys don't forget and they are not the type you'd want to be angry with you.
 
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He would talk about somethings that happened to him but not what they were doing. Apparently the guy's upperbody got burned pretty bad so they put salve on him and wrapped him up while they finished the mission. The guys are scary tough. I heard one part of the training is to actually drown and they bring you back. It is so you know what it is like and you will know your limits and not be scaried of it.
 
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My brother inlaw is Spec OPs Navy. He is a SEAL boat driver. Theydrive those super fast boats and insert SEALsalong with other stuff. He was in Irag for5 yrs stationed out of Barain 6 months before the startofDesert Storm working the the SEALs . He's got all kinds of Metals for Service and frag to prove it.He's still serving.Anyway he was home for a cool down so we took him to a Game in Starkville. We have a RV andwould arrangeto provide the bands in the RV Parking lot. Well that Saturday night Bro was in the RV getting ready . He was in the bathroom.My freind, David Rula (baskball player in the 90's)all 6'5 of him goes in to get some Doritos. Remember Bro is still amped up from hislast mission . Bro walks out of the bathroom and sees Rula digging through the cabinets. He thinksRula isstealing .You can imagaine what now happens. Bro SLAMS Rula and is about to knock him out when Rula explains he and I are freinds. The look on David Rula's face was priceless. He was was saying "who is that crazy mofo". That **** was funny.

If you are unlucky enough to upset one of these guys, you will be lucky to live through it. Bro is a bad mofo.

USA<USA<USA
 
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about 10 yrs ago. I noticed his tatoo and I had to ask. He was nice and told me a little bit about the training. If I remember correctly it was mostly testing peoples mental toughness. One exercise was they put you into an ice pool for an hour- then out doing exercises or something- then back in for an hour..etc. He said the people that made it wasn't the biggest, strongest, it was the toughest.
 
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It comes on the Military Channel pretty regularly. It's awesome.

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I don't post here much. Just lurk an read. But figured I'd add to this discussions being a military brat I'm throwing in my 2cents.
I've known lots of special ops guys and they are in awe of SEALs. Just your regular SEALS. Then you have SEAL team 6 which is made up of the best of the SEALs. I saw somewhere where the dropout rate for team 6 is 50% and that is for fullblown SEALs who've already made it through BUDS.

Lookup the term badass in the dictionary and its a link to these guys.
 
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madisondawg11

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gotta disagree man.. the acceptance for PJ school and Seals are the same but the graduation rate for Seals is 50% where the PJ's is 2%
 
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They took out Luke Skywalker and C3P0 after blowing up the Transformers, freeing the GI Joes, and killing an already armless Skeletor.
 
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English fail on my part apparently.

I meant to say that the failure rate of the seals that join team 6 is 50%. This after the already 80% failure rate to become a seal.
 
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For a minute I thought you were going to link to some ******** website that may or may not have any actual facts or truth associated with it.

I've never met a %#%@%%* eskimo either, doesn't mean they aren't a bunch of 'em somewhere.

Can't we all just agree that there are some badass people in the world helping to keep our lazy asses safe, without resorting to a big dick contest.
 
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Want to learn more about these Bad Asses read "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrel. It's the true story of operation Red Wings in Afgan and the deadiest day in Seal Team history. It will be on the big screen soon but I don't trust Hollyweird no to 17 it up.

If you want a little taste of the Seal life you can go to this camp.
http://www.extremesealexperience.com/

If anyone else would like to try it, I may be game.
 
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“These guys can one day be killing on the other side of the world and then mowing the grass 24 hours later,” Smith says.

I also like this quote...
The shooter’s probably not the crew-cut, neatly shaven ideal we’ve come
to expect from American fighting forces. “He’s bearded, rough-looking,
like a street urchin,” Marcinko supposes. “You don’t want to stick out.”
Marcinko calls it “modified grooming standards.”
 
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quickdawg said:
madisondawg11 said:
excuse me ill give them a little more credit. the graduation rate is 30% for navy seals. and even so look at everyone on this board saying how they know someone who was or is a seal. have you ever met or know someone who is a PJ?

http://answers.yahoo.com/...id=20100417150535AAwKIui
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I've met a PJ, too. Woo I am the k00lest sixpacker now! Do I get a decal or some BBQ or something?</span>
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congrats.
 
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I agree with Lone Survivor. Makes me realize how truly incredible and in tents those guys are. When Marcus came home the Navy gave him a lab, he named Dasy(an acronym for the other Seals in his team that died) and one night back home in Texas(he says that he doesn't sleep anymore) some dumb 17ers shot his dog. He tracked them down, had his 9mm Berreta trained on them but let them drive off. He got in his truck and chased them down till the cops showed. I still can't believe he didn't eliminate them. Good read.
 
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Your bro in law is or was a SWCC. They are also a part of SOCOM just as SEAL/s, SF, and PJ's are, just not as well known. It's common for them and/or their boats to be called SEAL boats.<div>
</div><div>madisondawg,</div><div>
</div><div>There will always be arguments about which Spec Ops unit is the best. I wouldn't say that one is better trained than another since each has specialized training for different missions. It is nice to know that if things get 17ed up down range, the PJ's are crazy enough to jump into a hail of bullets and come get me! Also some of the best field medics in the services except for a SOCM.</div>
 
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I only met three seals. Two of them were roomed next to me at Little Creek Virginiawhich was a Amphibious base.They has shore patrol one Friday night and keptme and six other Marines out of the Brig. We just got in a fight with about 15 Navy guys at the Helms Clubthe enlisted man club. The other was a guy when I was at Vieques Island. We had a check fire when we saw this little digging coming. Once it passed, about thirty minutes later this ford pick up truck came up to the OP and this guy with long hair and a beard claimed out. He was the guy in the small boat. He said that he had been just spent the last week in Cuba and it was not the navy base. I asked him did he wack any one and he did not answer that question. These guys even though their mission is different have pretty much the same training and are bad asses as well. I have met a bunch of these guys.

 
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He has been all over the world fighting bad guys . He moved to the Army for a few years . If that gives you a clue. How many Navy guys can say they were working with the Army on to top of Tora Bora. He was inAfganistan for a couple years.He says you can all ways tell a SEALon a ship. They are the ones in normal clothes with a beard. </p>
 
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