The SEALs I have met

[AlaskaDad]

Just have the pilot submerge the ramp/tail into the water and drive 'em on/float 'em off. Oh wait, your aircraft can't do that...

hahahaa now that when they have to call the Army, not the Air force.
Hey Army ya got a Chinook to come get us !

That's how I met my first SEALs back in 1969 in Vietnam
Picked up about 6 strange looking hard-as-nails men at Ben Tuy Navy Base in IV Corps to take them down to Sea Float.
These men with long beards wearing sleves cut off t-shirts. with some in ERDL Camo tops all in shorts and wearing high top canvas tennies, (coral boots I found out many years later.) He also had a strange weapon too..
"What the heck is that", I asked?
It was short looking kinda machine gun thingy. With no butt stock ,a hunk of broom handel under the fore stock and a hugh round magazine.
"Oh," the man carring it said "that's a Stoner 63.
"So whats it shoot?"
"Belted 5.56"
"NO SHIT"

That was the first time, but not the last time I met SEALS..

And no they didn't give a shit about no maroon beret. In the delta they wore either black ones or some camo ones like this ERDL one here in this photo

[RockOut]

There was a gaggle of soon-to-be-SEALs in my BAC class. One day during Jump Week after a jump, as we formed up to run back to the barracks, the was a commotion off to the side. A short time later a SEAL came walking out of the woods and was immediately shark-attacked by the cadre.

Seems this Seaman had seen a skunk near the formation and, being the hero he was, wanted to jump on the grenade by grabbing it and taking it into the woods. A pickup truck soon arrived and the Seaman was ordered aboard so he could be hosed down.

This was my first experience being around SEALs and, other than this incident, they kept to themselves except for showing off by screaming "ZERO!" whenever they were smoked by their Navy liason (they were too hardcore to count the repetitions). From what I saw they were PT demons.

I run across one or two every now and then these days, and from what I can tell, they are professionals.

[PocketKings]

In all seriousness, the only mission I ever did with SEALs was a cordon and search in Kosovo. The team was in country, I assume, for some operational experience. We cordon off this town and here comes the SEALs, screaming into our cordon in black SUVs and wearing civilian clothes (as if they didn't stick out like sore thumbs). They open up one of the vehicles and pull some 'informant' out totally rough handling him (which was WAY against our ROE at the time). Keep in mind, this is Kosovo well after any real action...strictly peacekeeping. They throw ol' boy into the truck and tell us they'll meet us for the search.

We search all night and can't find anything. We were looking for .50 cal Desert Eagles, supposedly purchased for the ability to punch through our IBA. Didn't find jack. As the company XO (AT Company), I went to the SEALs vehicle at 0 dark 30 in the morn to report our lack of findings and all of them are racked out. They pulled out of country soon thereafter and we ended up having to spend weeks regaining our rapport with the locals. I wasn't impressed. That mission did not warrant that type of aggression, especially after the Rhongi incident just a few months before.

The only SEAL I ever partied with was before he was a SEAL. Michael Murphy was a hockey player at Penn State (my undergrad school) while I was there. This was well before he decided to join the Navy. He was a cool guy and asked me all sorts of questions about Airborne School. We had a mutual friend on the team, and I was a soccer player, so I partied with those guys pretty often in '98. As most may know, he went on to bigger and better things and, unfortunately, is in Valhalla prepping the objective for us all.

[Guymullins]

Just about every country should have learned by now that Paratroopers and Special Forces should not be used in a Police Role. We are not good at it and often cause trouble where no trouble existed previously.

[VoTrooper99]

All I know is that I should have bit the bullet, joined the Navy, and found a way to complete SeAL training. If I had, I could retire on the residuals from all the workout infomercials I could do...

"Recommended by former US Navy SeAL VoTrooper99, the Ab Blaster is guranteed to give you six pack abs in less that six weeks. Just work out 20 minutes twice a week..."

That would be the life. SeALs can sell anything...

[mainiac]

I have only run into one seal. He was a realy nice guy that was a cop in mississippi.He didn't talk much about being in, even when he was drinking. I have had run ins with SF before. A colonel at Bragg was a friend of the family, I used to go to his house for dinner alot. Accused me of sleeping with his wife(I wish I had) Another was a guy I went to school with. Ended up shooting himself in the head after a deployment.

[Maroon Machine]

[ABN MP]

In all seriousness, the only mission I ever did with SEALs was a cordon and search in Kosovo. The team was in country, I assume, for some operational experience. We cordon off this town and here comes the SEALs, screaming into our cordon in black SUVs and wearing civilian clothes (as if they didn't stick out like sore thumbs). They open up one of the vehicles and pull some 'informant' out totally rough handling him (which was WAY against our ROE at the time). Keep in mind, this is Kosovo well after any real action...strictly peacekeeping. They throw ol' boy into the truck and tell us they'll meet us for the search.

We search all night and can't find anything. We were looking for .50 cal Desert Eagles, supposedly purchased for the ability to punch through our IBA. Didn't find jack. As the company XO (AT Company), I went to the SEALs vehicle at 0 dark 30 in the morn to report our lack of findings and all of them are racked out. They pulled out of country soon thereafter and we ended up having to spend weeks regaining our rapport with the locals. I wasn't impressed. That mission did not warrant that type of aggression, especially after the Rhongi incident just a few months before.

The only SEAL I ever partied with was before he was a SEAL. Michael Murphy was a hockey player at Penn State (my undergrad school) while I was there. This was well before he decided to join the Navy. He was a cool guy and asked me all sorts of questions about Airborne School. We had a mutual friend on the team, and I was a soccer player, so I partied with those guys pretty often in '98. As most may know, he went on to bigger and better things and, unfortunately, is in Valhalla prepping the objective for us all.

Yeah there were a couple of them on the SF compound. Them and the Army SF guys. The Sf were also scattered throughout the towns in Safe houses. The SEALs did run a mission or two and they were pissed because they had to wear all of their gear. It was the day after 9/11 and they were forced to take HMMWV's and they had to wear Kevlars and body armor, LOL!
I don't think the SF compound is even there anymore at Bondsteel. Most of the base is contractors, foreign military, and National Guard. It has changed a lot since 2001.

[LRS Guy]

SEALs :(

I know allot of them. Some are damm good people, but too many have an ego the size of the Pacific ocean. Mostly younger guys, I will give them credit, they are often incredibly fit. But too worried about looking cool.

I LOVE pointing that out to the older UDT/SEALs I work with!

[lz_NorthPole]

Hy Eckelenburg is a Dutch immigrant who came to America shortly after WWII and a real Patriot. Both of his sons also served in the US Military. He was an American trained UDT (Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) They were an elite special-purpose force established by the United States Navy during World War II and the predecessor to the Seals) and a highly decorated one at that although a Very modest man. "We just did what we had to do".
I worked for him in 1992 and when he retired in 94 I took over his job as General Foreman at a Gold Mine. Over the years we became very good friends. I really did not know the extent of his WWII involvement until I rode down to Nogales, Arizona.
I stayed overnight with Hy and his wife Martha as they had a spare room and after the wife went to bed Hy and I had after a few beers some wine. The wine poured freely and we had a wonderful conversation with me doing as much listening as possible. Several times he told me how good it was to have someone to talk with that had walked in the fire and understood what he was saying. It really made me feel good that he thought enough of me to confide in me. He released a bit of bottled up emotions that he had carried for 60 years.
A few times a tear would appear in the corner of his eye and I was having a hard time containing my emotions. If you want someone to explain what "Gun Control" means, ask Hy as he was in Holland when the Nazis invaded and went to the court house where the gun ownership was located. Then they went door to door collecting guns and left the Dutchmen with nothing but broomsticks to fight with. Pictures and more are at:
http://www.armyparatrooper.org/dropz...-Members/page5

[AFTAC85]

I knew this cat that went by the name of Iron Curtain, claimed he was with ST 2....complete doucher. I think he got what was coming to him though.

[IEDmagnet]

I knew this cat that went by the name of Iron Curtain, claimed he was with ST 2....complete doucher. I think he got what was coming to him though.

Someone told me that guy used to blow his neighbor and snowball back and forth with him. Heard he was a champ.

[MI~intheSky]

i knew this seal once was doing training or something at bragg total douche nozzle but hot like in that cheezy vale kilmer ice man way any who i made him my bitch nuff said