All US Special Operators Train for Combat Diving, but Navy SEALs Take it to Another Level
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Water covers more than 70 percent of the earth, making maritime operations a must-have capability for any competent military.
Besides having the strongest Navy in the world, the U.S. military possesses potent maritime special-operations resources, with the majority of its special-operations units having some combat diving capability.
Marine Raiders and Reconnaissance Marines have different training pipelines but go through the same dive school in Panama City.
A Navy special amphibious reconnaissance corpsman, left, and a reconnaissance Marine in underwater gear during a Marine combat diving course in Okinawa, May 20, 2020 (U.S. Marine Corps/Cpl. Savannah Mesimer)
Special operations forces have been at the forefront of U.S. combat operation in the last two decades.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Special Operations forces may thus develop new tactics on how their unique capabilities could counter Russia’s own unconventional warfare tactics in Eastern Europe, or employed to surveil and raid militarized islets in the Pacific Ocean.
Special operations forces have been at the forefront of U.S. combat operation in the last two decades. They are nearly at the forefront of risky combat missions and suffer higher casualties as they are often deployed to remote locations and exposed to greater risks.