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The United States Navy, like any organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions. United States Navy personnel sometimes colloquially refer to these as NAVSpeak. Like other organizational colloquialisms, their use often creates or reinforces a sense of esprit and closeness ...
SEAL – Sea, Air and Land (U.S. Navy SEALs) SERE – Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape; SFC – Sergeant First Class (U.S. Army E-7) SFOD-A – United States Army Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha – U.S. Special Forces team (see ODA) SFOD-B – Special Forces Operational Detachment Bravo – U.S. Special Forces support group
Dick Couch – Author of several books on SEALs including The Warrior Elite: Forging of SEAL Class 228, The Finishing School, and Down Range: Navy SEALs in the War on Terrorism. Graduate of the United States Naval Academy. Cade Courtley – Actor, contestant on the reality series Combat Missions, and host of Spike's Surviving Disaster.
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The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the United States Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic ...
Official U.S. Navy Seal Information Website; Official U.S. Navy SWCC Information Website; Luttrell, Marcus. (2007). Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, New York: Hachette Book Group. (ISBN 0-316-06759-8) Cunningham, Chet. (2005).
The graduating members of BUD/S Class 236 in front of the Naval Special Warfare Center.At the far left of the back row is Medal of Honor recipient Michael P. Murphy.. The average member of the United States Navy's Sea, Air, Land Teams (SEALs) spends over a year in a series of formal training environments before being awarded the Special Warfare Operator Naval Rating and the Navy Enlisted ...
The U.S. Veterans Affairs seal. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) maintains many cemeteries specifically devoted to veterans. Most have various rules regarding what must take place in order to be interred there.