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Then the SEALs would walk their way in and blow the doors, then sneak into the house in total silence. The DEVGRU SEAL team that would go on this raid would be accompanied by United States Army Rangers and a British Special Boat Service operative. Later intelligence came up with three major compounds filled with terrorists all in the same area.
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".
During the early hours of October 31, 2020, United States Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) conducted an operation in Northern Nigeria, resulting in the rescue of an American hostage and the killing of six of the seven captors.
In March 2002, SEALs from DEVGRU, SEAL Teams 2, 3 and 8 participated extensively in Operation Anaconda. During what would become known as the Battle of Takur Ghar, whilst inserting from an MH-47E Chinook, PO1 Neil Roberts from DEVGRU, [56] was thrown from his helicopter when it took fire from entrenched al Qaeda fighters. Roberts was ...
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.
[46] [49] Tribal leader Tarek al-Daghari al-Awlaki stated that DEVGRU soldiers raided four houses in the area during the operation, killing an AQAP commander identified as Jamal Mubarak al-Hard al-Daghari al-Awlaki along with two other AQAP members, as well as eight civilians including a woman, a 10-year-old boy and a 70-year old man.
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.