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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.
SEAL Team Six became the U.S. Navy's premier hostage rescue and counter-terrorism unit. It has been compared to the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force. [7] [12] Marcinko held the command of SEAL Team Six for three years, from 1980 to July 1983, instead of the typical two-year command in the Navy at the time. [13] SEAL Team Six started with 75 shooters.
Chuck Pfarrer – Former SEAL Team Four and DEVGRU operator from 1984 to 1986; screenwriter with credits including The Jackal, Darkman, Red Planet, Virus, Hard Target, Navy SEALs; author of the New York Times bestseller SEAL Target Geronimo: Inside The Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden, Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL and the reality ...
On Oct. 23, SEAL Team Six's Assault Group Three began the airport reconnaissance with a static line parachute drop, along with two combat-raiding small craft, well beyond detection by the Grenadian military. [2] A rain squall accompanied by high winds broke out just before the SEALs conducted the water-drop rendezvous with the USS Clifton ...
The unprecedented media coverage raised the public profile of the SEAL community, particularly the counter-terrorism specialists commonly known as SEAL Team 6. The Walt Disney Company tried unsuccessfully to trademark the name "SEAL Team 6" the day after the raid. [98] The official name of the military operation was Operation Neptune Spear.
Robert J. O'Neill (born 10 April 1976) is a former United States Navy SEAL (1996–2012), TV news contributor, and author. After participating in May 2011's Operation Neptune Spear with SEAL Team Six, O'Neill was the subject of controversy for claiming to be the sole individual to kill Osama bin Laden.
The book also covers aspects of his personal life, including his marriages, his childhood, [4] and life after leaving the Navy. The book has been adapted into a young adult version, I Am a SEAL Team Six Warrior, released in April 2012. [5] The book was a New York Times bestseller [6] and received positive reviews.
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]