re: Any navy seals here?

I know one from Portland that was probably around the late 60's. I worked with him and his guys for a while. We would sit in a bar, drinking, and finally, he would get up to go pee. His guys would find a group of aboot a dozen guys and bet them each $100 that they couldn't whip his arse when he came out of the bathroom.

They would all jump him when he came out. One by one, they would come flying off of him, with no desire to jump back on. After this happened 3-4 times, he said, "I am a pretty nice guy. I don't understand why all these crowds keep jumping on me. I guess I need to stop going drinking."

He was a helluva nice guy.

I also saw him have a minor difference of opinion about nothing with a giant black guy once. The black guy told him that he would whip his arse. He simply said, "No, you won't", jabbed him in the throat with one finger, and helped him to the ground. I was glad he liked me.

Used to work with one from the Vietnam era. He was old and fat by the time I knew him and I think he as passed now. Even though he was many years past his service days he could pull a knife to your throat quicker than you could even realize he did it. He used to do that for fun... I will also say this, he had no fear in his veins of anybody.

I was thinking aboot my buddy from Portland and remembered another story. we were in Phoenix one time and him, me and one more guy had gone out to a decent chain, Mexican restaurant. It was clean, tastefully decorated and the Waitresses all wore tight black pants, and red shirts.

We were chatting with our waitress, a REALLY good-looking young lady from Ecuador. She left to go do some waitress things and he commented to us that she was quite attractive, and asked our opinions. The 3rd guy told him that the waitress was a guy. He looked at me and I shook my head yes, and told him to check for an Adam's apple when "she" came back. He had had quite a few drinks by this time. After squinting at her Adam's apple a few times, he informed us that we had better tell him if we were just screwing with him, because he was going to feel and see next time she came back. We finally told him, before anything bad happened.

Good times.

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frick being in some cold arse water. Do have a couple friends who were/are seals. They got teach in the keys though.

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I think I coulda handled the cold. And probably the conditioning part.

I could not have handled the drown proofing stuff(I’d ring that bell in about four minutes). And about the second time they let me sleep 39 minutes fir the day woulda probably shut me down too

I know several that tapped out, but no SEALS personally. Probably very telling.

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SWCC isn’t led by anyone from seal teams

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Actually... The CO of the SWCC Training Command at Stennis is a SEAL officer. I wouldn't have thought that to be the case but I met him in Mandeville earlier this summer.

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If there are, they sure as frick won't tell you.

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You evedently dont know any SEALS.

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SF guys are a very interesting and varied group as A Teams value a variety in their personnel. You can't say there is a "type" of person who makes it in Special Operations other than that they all don't have a Quit button.

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One of my podnuhs is an SF dude with a Master's in Landscape Architecture.

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Lucy Bustamante, a former WWL anchor, was married to a SEAL who was CO of SBT-22. I was surprised to learn a SEAL was CO of the SWCCs.

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At one time the boat teams by doctrine all had either a SEAL CO and a Surface Warfare XO or vice versa. Since they have their own pipeline and NEC now, that may have changed.

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You don’t need to be in jocko shape or be a body builder, but certainly not ‘avg’ American shape.

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Sorry, I guess what I really meant is that most team guys active and retired look like they belong on a bag of Brawney paper towels than lets say a Navy recruiting campaign.