U.S NAVY SEALS SIZE:2,700 (2012 ESTIMATES) TRAINING AND SELECTION :SEAL training is extremely rigorous, having a reputation as some of the toughest in the world. The drop out rate for SEAL training is sometimes over 90 percent. The Navy SEAL candidate spends over a year in a series of formal training environments before being awarded the Special Warfare Operator Naval Rating and the Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) 5326 Combatant Swimmer (SEAL) or, in the case of commissioned naval officers, the designation Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Officer. Navy SEAL training pipeline: 8-week Naval Special Warfare Prep School 24-week Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/s) Training 3-week Parachute Jump School 26-week SEAL Qualification Training (SQT) Upon graduation from SQT, trainees receive the coveted Navy SEAL Trident, designating them as Navy SEALs. They are subsequently assigned to a SEAL Team or SEAL Delivery Vehicle (SDV) Team and begin 18-months of predeployment training before they are considered deployable. This training consists of 6-month Professional Development - Individual Specialty Training (ProDev) 6-month Unit Level Training (ULT) 6-month Squadron Integration Training (SIT) Those Enlisted SEALs with a medical rating will first attend the Special Operation Combat Medic Course for 6 months in Fort Bragg North Carolina]before joining a team in order to become a SEAL medic. Those pursuing Officer positions first attend the Junior Officer Training Course to learn about operations planning and how to perform team briefings. In total it can take over 2.5 years to completely train a Navy SEAL for their first deployment. DESCRIPTION:The United States Navys Sea, Air, Land Teams, commonly known as the Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navys principal special operations force and a part of the Naval Special Warfare Command and United States Special Operations Command.The SEALs duty is to conduct small-unit maritime military operations which originate from, and return to a river, ocean, swamp, delta or coastline. SEALs can negotiate shallow water areas such as the Persian Gulf coastline, where large ships and submarines are limited due to depth. SEAL is always capitalized in reference to members of the Naval Special Warfare community. The Navy SEALs are trained to operate in all environments (Sea, Air, and Land) for which they are named. SEALs are also prepared to operate in climate extremes of scorching desert, freezing Arctic, and humid jungle. The SEALs current pursuit of elusive, dangerous and high-priority terrorist targets has them operating in remote, mountainous regions of Afghanistan, and in cities torn by factional violence. Historically the SEALs have always had one foot in the water. The reality, however, today is that they initiate lethal direct action strikes equally well from air and land.[4] All SEALs are male members of the United States Navy.The CIAs highly secretive Special Activities Division (SAD) and more specifically its elite Special Operations Group (SOG) recruits operators from the SEAL Teams. Joint Navy SEALs and CIA operations go back to the famed MACV-SOG during the Vietnam War. This cooperation still exists today and is seen in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Due to their reputation as one of the worlds premier special operations forces, SEAL operators routinely serve in allied SOFs including the British Special Air Service, Special Boat Service and Polish GROM succesful missions all but 4, althought 3 of the failed misisons werent failures (they were called off) after the targets they were after moved or disperesed an one failed misison as part of a co-mission with sas to rescue british aid workers in afghanistan 2009. famous missions. rescue of captain phillips and a seal team numbering just 50 men was dropped into vietnam after only a week had killed a reported 500 north vietnamese, destroyed 6 ammo cashes two forward fire bases 16 artillery peices 4 commanders and 8 nva tanks (google navy seals in vietnam for source) ~RK95
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