re: Any navy seals here?

I cooked for a seal once.

I was not a Seal, but I have a very good friend whose son is a Seal. He has two Silver Stars. I will tell you what little I know about one of them. The team he was a part of was in the mountains of Afghanistan, They had walked quite a distance away from support when they encountered the bad guys and a firefight ensued.

The officer leading the team was shot through the lower leg and was totally unable to continue on. My friend's son is built like a sparkplug - short and all muscle. The officer was quite a bit bigger than my friend's son. After the team took out the Afghans and completed their mission, withdrawal was ordered, but the officer was incapable of moving with the team.

My friend's son immediately took the officer over his shoulder and started out, carrying him. The story is that the officer ordered him to leave him behind, tried to reason and eventually begged him to leave him. This was not going to happen though. The son carried his officer almost 20 miles, down the mountain on very difficult terrain, finally to where the team encountered support.

Only when they encountered support help did he give up the burden he was carrying. For his actions in the firefight and his support of the team and evacuation of the officer, he received one of the two Silver Stars he has received.

Obviously, he can't talk about a lot of what he has encountered. I do know he was the shooter/sniper for his team. He once told a story about laying in a ditch, covered with limbs for 2 days, before taking the shot the team had been assigned to make.

I do know the team spent 4 months in the belly of a ship off Somalia, only going out 5 or 6 times on action.

One more story. He says that many of the men involved in "Blackhawk Down" disaster were identified from the video that was made public. Over time, many of those men simply disappeared, walking outside a house or building at night and never walking back in. Some of them disappeared from bed, sleeping in a room with other people. Evidently the bodies of these men are hidden where they will not be found by friends and family. Obviously the disappearance of these men (one by one) is a well known "urban myth" in Somalia. The Seal-son says it is considered a high honor to be assigned the job of taking out one of these guys.

All military guys and women deserve our thanks for what they do and have done.

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Dean had retired from the Army as a lieutenant colonel in August 2017 after a career mostly leading overseas special operations that many Americans may never know the details about, officials said.

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this reads like a guy that was Delta

My brother was a Navy Seal for about 15 years. He was rolled back due to a fractured leg after Hell Week. He was not happy about slipping a class and starting over.

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Is it as hard as people make it out to be? I like David Goggins and Dan Crenshaw. They make it seem like it was hardest thing of their life though.

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With all due respect OP, if this is your honest attitude then you likely aren’t fit for it. The guys that make those teams, never question making it. When you haven’t slept in days and are absolutely beyond any sort of imaginable state of being physically tired, then are repeatedly thrown in brutally cold water...there’s no room for questioning it. The guys that make it all have that one thing in common, and that’s the attitude that whatever is thrown at them they aren’t quitting.

Without that, you won’t make a special forces team.

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Honestly I’d rather know if there is/was a delta guy floating around here

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I know a Delta Operator.

Do you have questions? I might be able to give some general info based on his experiences. I don't know all that much, though.

My fencing coach was a SEAL. Tulane grad as a matter of fact. Didn't really talk any details, would just go "ya, I was" when anyone asked him about it.

He's also one of the creative consultants for Black Sails and has published several books on Caribbean piratry. Now that shite he won't shut up about. Dude is a serious pirate history junky.

There is one in the family. That career has taken a toll on his body with broken bones and injuries. He’ll be getting out of it soon and will be going OCS or getting out completely. He is sure he’ll have chronic back problems sooner in life that your average Joe Sixpack.

But he wouldn’t trade any it for the world.

Question should be, is anybody here NOT a Navy Seal?

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Very humble guy, considering his history.

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The bigger the badass, the quieter the man.