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Michael Raymond "Goody" Goodboe (July 6, 1966 – November 25, 2020) was a senior Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary officer with the Special Activities Center and former member of United States Navy SEAL Team Six who was killed in a terrorist attack presumed to have been conducted by Al-Shabaab (militant group) in Mogadishu, Somalia, on November 25, 2020.
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.
Call Sign Extortion 17: The Shoot-Down of SEAL Team Six is a 2015 non-fiction expose, written by best-selling author and former U.S. Navy JAG Officer Don Brown, about the 2011 Chinook shootdown in Afghanistan of a United States Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter.
Richard “Dick” Marcinko, the first commanding officer of Navy SEAL Team 6, died on Christmas Day at the age of 81, according to his family.
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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 ...
He was selected for SEAL Team 6 in 2004 before being assigned to Gold Squadron. As the pace of the war picked up, Bill was in a constant deployment cycle, but also honing his skills and building a ...
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.