re: Check in if you're not melting over 4000 new troops in Afghanistan.

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Why use SEALs when we have people custom built for that mission?

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Trying to understand your question. Do you mean like use rangers or infantry to take a position or do you mean custom built as in SF being more focused and trained in the FID role?

In a large scale war like early Afghanistan or all of Iraq you definitely need your guys kicking down doors and taking fire storming positions. In smaller scale counter insurgency operations when casualties are inevitable we choose to keep Americans out of harms way as much as possible.

Look up some delta and devgru (seal team 6) stories while searching for bin laden in tora bora in the early 2000s.