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  2. SEAL Team Six - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of operations conducted by SEAL Team Six - Wikipedia

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    Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters located the airliner south of Crete and forced the pilots to land at NAS Sigonella, the NATO airbase in Sicily. After the 737 touched down, two United States Air Force C-141 Starlifter cargo planes landed with SEAL Team SIX who quickly surrounded the airplane but were then surrounded by Italian Carabinieri.

  4. Richard Halsey Best - Wikipedia

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    VB-6 pilots in January 1942: Best is seated 3rd from the left. Richard Halsey Best (March 24, 1910 – October 28, 2001) was a dive bomber pilot and squadron commander in the United States Navy during World War II.

  5. Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award - Wikipedia

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    The award consists of a certificate and citation signed by the activity head, medal and lapel emblem. The award is the third highest Navy civilian award, ranking just behind the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award, which is itself behind the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award. [2]

  6. Navy Civilian Service Achievement Medal - Wikipedia

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    The Navy Civilian Service Achievement Medal is awarded to Department of the Navy and U.S. Marine Corps civilians who, while serving in a capacity within the Navy or Marine Corps, are to be recognized for sustained performance or specific achievement of a superlative nature at the equivalent level of the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal awarded to military personnel.

  7. Naval Surface Warfare Center - Wikipedia

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    The ICE lab focuses on the Navy's evolving human performance and human systems integration (HSI) testing. The Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) is part of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) operated by the United States Navy. NAVSEA Warfare Centers supply the technical operations, people, technology, engineering services and products ...

  8. United States Sixth Fleet - Wikipedia

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    The newly elected president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, tours the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) escorted by Commander, Task Force 65, Captain Tom Rowden, right, while the frigate USS Carr (FFG 52) moves alongside the ship.

  9. Ranks and insignia of NATO navies enlisted - Wikipedia

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    This table shows the ranks and insignia of NCOs and Seaman in the navies of member countries of NATO.NATO maintains a "standard rank scale" in an attempt to match every member country's military rank to corresponding ranks used by the other members.