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While Scoon was being secured, 12 other operators from SEAL Team Six, under the command of Lt. Donald “Kim” Erskine, flew on to the radio station in a lone Black Hawk helicopter. [7] The helicopter took small-arms fire on the insertion. Once the team landed, it quickly overran the radio station compound and took enemy prisoners.
The Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), abbreviated as DEVGRU ("Development Group") [3] [note 1] and unofficially known as SEAL Team Six, [5] [6] 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. [6]
The 2017 raid on Barii was a military operation conducted by SEAL Team Six with Danab commandos from the Federal Government of Somalia.The raid resulted in the death of DEVGRU Senior Chief Petty Officer Kyle Milliken, marking the first US serviceman combat death in Somalia since the First Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, also known as "Black Hawk Down".
The 2013 raid on Baraawe was a military operation by SEAL Team Six to capture or kill Abdikadar Mohamed Abdikadar "Ikrima", a senior member of the Al-Shabaab insurgent group. It was launched in the southern town of Barawa , Somalia in October 2013.
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. [108] The official name of the military operation was Operation Neptune Spear.
On the night of 1–2 May 2011, operators from Red Squadron of U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) (aka "SEAL Team 6") raided the compound of Osama bin-Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing the al-Qaeda leader and four others. The operation was codenamed "Neptune Spear" in reference to the SEAL insignia's trident.
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The SEALs then traveled by foot from their drop zone, attacked the compound, and engaged the pirates, killing all nine of them. [4] A first-hand account of the raid appears in former DEVGRU operator Justin K. Sheffield's 2020 book MOB VI: A Seal Team Six Operator's Battles in the Fight for Good Over Evil.