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UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters delivered SEAL Team 6 operators in the early morning of 25 October to Radio Free Grenada with the purpose of using the radio station for psychological operations. [citation needed] They captured the station unopposed and destroyed the radio transmitter. However, they were attacked by Grenadian forces in cars and an ...
SEAL Team Six. The Naval Special Warfare Development Group ( NSWDG ), abbreviated as DEVGRU ("Development Group") [note A] and commonly known as SEAL Team Six, [ 3][ 4] is the United States Navy component of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The unit is often referred to within JSOC as Task Force Blue. [ 4]
Richard Marcinko. Richard Marcinko (November 21, 1940 – December 25, 2021) was a U.S. Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran. He was the first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six. After retiring from the United States Navy, he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker.
President Ronald Reagan approved the deployment of Navy's SEAL Team SIX and Delta Force operators to plan and prepare for a rescue attempt to free the vessel from its hijackers. On October 8, Syria refused permission for the ship to dock and subsequently the hijackers murdered Leon Klinghoffer , an elderly Jewish American businessman.
Marc Alan Lee. Marc Alan Lee (March 20, 1978 – August 2, 2006) was a United States Navy SEAL. He was the first SEAL to lose his life in Operation Iraqi Freedom when he was killed in a fierce firefight while on patrol against insurgents in Ramadi. Lee was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, the Bronze Star Medal with Valor and the Purple ...
Legion of Merit (2) Bronze Star (2) William Harry McRaven (born November 6, 1955) is a retired United States Navy four-star admiral who served as the ninth commander of the United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) from August 8, 2011 to August 28, 2014. From 2015 to 2018, he was the chancellor of The University of Texas System .
Navy SEAL Bill Mulder died by suicide in 2017. (Courtesy of Sydney Mulder) Then in 2011, Extortion 17 was shot out of the sky. The twin-rotor CH-47 Chinook helicopter had been transporting ...
The original Red Cell was a 14-man team composed of 13 former members of SEAL Team Six and one Force Recon Marine. [4] The unit was also known as OP-O6D which had been organized to attempt to infiltrate and otherwise test the security of US military bases and other installations sensitive to US security interests. [5]