Osama bin Laden to destroy the Department of SEAL Team 6 help illuminates a little light on the special teams a number of elite U.S. troops.
79 rangers have been assigned to kill Osama bin Laden, but in the end only about 20 people entered the mansion of Al Qaeda leader, burst into the bedroom and this terrorist shot at close range.
They all know Barack Obama is directly monitored their activities in Washington. They were hailed as heroes in America, but will have no victory parade for them to do.
There are very few people know the identity of who had killed bin Laden.
The rangers say the service in a special team known informally as SEAL Team 6 (SEAL squads of 6 - ST6), a secret unit that the White House and Defense Department refused to recognize visual its continued existence. Identity of its members, of course, will not be published for security reasons.Their identities would be kept secret forever.
This particular member of each team to hunt for war criminals in Bosnia, fighting in a couple of the bloodiest battlefields in Afghanistan and shot dead three Somali pirates in a campaign to rescue American hostages in 2009 .
Dawn raid on 2 / 5 in Pakistan may also regarded as the Son said each team involved in some of the most dangerous campaigns of the U.S. military for several decades.
Leon Panetta, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), said the SEAL commandos plunge into the task with only 60-80% likely that bin Laden in the house.
Mr. Panetta said the commandos made the decision to shoot bin Laden, who were not armed and had a rifle within reach, in one second, when they found him in the bedroom on the third floor.
There is no debate among members of the ST6 that they have made the right decision to shoot bin Laden or not.
Don Shipley, a former SEAL, said: "In the darkness, with crooked crooked bullets flying around and many people fall down, your mission is to capture or kill bin Laden, who knows he hid What is the shirt? That only happens in a blink of an eye. Objectives are short and a second chance to pay the price with their lives. "
Lalo Roberti, a former SEAL other member participated in a dangerous rescue campaign in Afghanistan in 2005, said: "For us to have a bad shot, especially with members ST6."
In the U.S. Navy, the special teams regular SEAL teams are numbered from No. 1 to No. 5 team and team number 7 to number 10 team. Team No. 6 (ST6) was described as the team "elite of elite" or under the Roberti is the "team of stars."
ST6 official name of the group is deploying special war U.S. Navy (U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group) and is referred to as DEVGRU. The members of the SEAL said, ST6 selected perform the "act like" bin Laden, mission home crowd in the history of SEAL, by damage to their skills under conditions of complexity and ambiguity.
All members of SEAL must experience intense preparations, including six months of basic combat training underwater in Coronado, California. In the "hell week", the rookie only 4 hours sleep in total during the five and a half days running, swimming in cold water and wade in the mud. Approximately 80% of candidates did not pass this round, and at least one death.
For those who succeed, they will be more training after that. After many years as a normal member of SEAL, the candidate of ST6 trained parachute from an altitude of 9000 meters with a mask and took a cruise ship was attacked. Only half of SEAL members completed this training.
Ryan Zinke, a former member of the ST6 is a senator in the state of Montana, said the members of this team has a different consistency. "I will use the word cocky and arrogant," Zinke said.
A member of SEAL.
ST6 has historically specialized in maritime warfare, but in a decade since the terrorist attacks 11 / 9, the team has stepped up the fight on in Iraq and Afghanistan. ST6 scale of confidentiality, but the team is said to have increased troop numbers up to twice the nearly 300 people since then.
Thursday 4 / 5, the Pentagon also announced Vice Admiral Robert S. Harward Jr., A member of another SEAL, will become deputy commander of U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM, in charge of Central Asia and Middle East), helped him become the second senior U.S. military in Middle East.
ST6 squads were later established to respond to the campaign failed hostage rescue in Iran in 1980, when the Pentagon felt the need for an agency that today is known as Command Campaign Especially, with a special unit in charge of Navy anti-terrorism.
SEAL is an acronym of the group since only the scope of their varied activities, including Sea (Sea) - Air (No) - Land (Land). This unit was President John F. Kennedy founded in 1962 as a way to expand the war is not conventional.
Currently, the SEAL has about 3,000 active members, in which teams play in Coronado odd and even number closed in Virginia. ST6 stationed at a base independent of the other teams, at the Virginia coast. "I usually call it a club of old men," Zinke said.
With the increase of the importance of special campaigns and style guerrilla war, members of the SEAL has also held many prominent positions in the U.S. Army.
Officials to plan and monitor the campaign to kill bin Laden - Vice Admiral William H. McRaven, Commander of the Special Operation Command (U.S. Special Operations Command), is a member of the SEAL.
Greitens Eric, a former SEAL who wrote the book "Heart and punch" about his experiences, said members of SEAL often misunderstood is the most deadly commandos in the U.S..
Although described by the White House, the level of violence of the images of bin Laden with a bullet hole on the top seems to contribute to emphasize this scandal, he said Greitens are members of the SEAL commando creative who know how to "gather up intelligence that they can."
SEAL is a member of the "experts" to attack targets from the sea.
Despite the success of the campaign, the former SEAL members also recognize the serious of raids and lucky in that level. Mr. Shipley said to a reporter from The New York Times: "If everything changes for the worse, the conversation between me and him will be completely different. Only two trends in campaigns like that - zero or a hero. "
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