Thread: Happy 50th Bday, USN SEALs!

Elite frogmen muster in Va. Beach as SEALs turns 50 | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
By Kate Wiltrout, The Virginian-Pilot© January 28, 2012

Members of one of the military's most elite clubs gathered Friday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Navy SEALs, established by President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

Outsiders might expect a roomful of current and former SEALs - or frogmen, as they call themselves - to be full of boasts and bravado. After all, this is the organization that took down Osama bin Laden, killed the pirates holding an American ship captain hostage in a tiny lifeboat and - just this week - rescued an American aid worker from her captors in the Somali desert.

But the 150 SEALs of past and present who came together Friday at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek did nothing of the sort.
"I do not advertise the nature of my work, nor seek recognition for my actions," reads a line in the SEAL creed, which was recited by four active-duty SEALs.
Instead, with a mixture of pride and humility that defines their community, guests paid homage to the storied institution's modest roots.
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message from Rear Admiral Sean A. Pybus, Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command..

I swim like a rock.

If my wife catches a leg cramp in front of me while she's swimming I hope she dies quickly as not to experience too much discomfort.

Navy SEAL Commander Advised to 'Get the Hell Out of the Media' - Yahoo! News

A retired general today assailed the commander of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden for drawing too much media attention to operations that he argued should be kept under wraps.

Special Operations Commander Adm. Bill McRaven was confronted by retired Lt. Gen. James Vaught, who said he didn't understand why the recent raids by the Navy SEALs, such as the one to kill Osama bin Laden or to rescue U.S. hostage Jessica Buchanan, were all over the media. "Since the time when your wonderful team went and drug bin Laden out and got rid of him, and more recently when you went down and rescued the group in Somalia, or wherever the hell they were, they've been splashing all of this all over the media," Vaught, 85, said. "I flat don't understand that.

Vaught commanded the failed mission to rescue the hostages in Iran in 1979. Eight service members died and four were injured in "Operation Eagle Claw" when the helicopters on the mission collided in the remote Iranian desert. Vaught, whose role made him the first commander of Delta Force, was not active duty during the Hussein raid, which was also conducted by the Delta Force, the secretive counterterrorism unit.

McRaven jokingly responded that he became a Navy SEAL because his sister was dating a special forces member and because he was infatuated with John Wayne's movie, "The Green Beret."
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umm.. lol. sounds like sour grapes from the old guy.