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The SEALs are an elite unit that can take on a wide variety of special tasks. This includes hunting down notorious enemies of the United States of America.
How Navy SEALs Are Evolving to Meet Challenges of the 21st Century
Facing a modern sea-based threat in China and also having suffered from multiple sexual assault or drug scandals, the SEALs are in need of an overhaul.
This week the United States navy announced that its elite SEAL (Sea, Air, and LAND) teams would undergo a major transition in an effort to improve leadership while expanding their commando capabilities, so as to better address threats from near peer adversaries including China and Russia.
Officially founded in 1962, the modern-day U.S. Navy SEALs can trace their roots to the Second World War, when there was a need for covert reconnaissance of landing beaches and enemy coastal defenses. The joint Army, Marine Corps and Navy Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 at Fort Pierce, Florida with the first Amphibious Scout and Raider units formed that year.
How the Powerful and Elite Navy Seals Were Forged Out of World War II
America needed elite forces to fight the Axis and from those units the modern Navy SEALs were born.
Key point: The Navy SEALs have served in many conflicts and on many secret missions. Here is their history and what they can do.
Today’s Navy SEALs (for Sea, Air, and Land special warfare experts) have a history shrouded in secrecy. Commissioned in 1962, they are the most elite shore-area Special Forces in the world, concentrating on very select and often-clandestine intelligence gathering and precision strike missions. For over 50 years it was assumed that the origin of the Navy SEALs was the Naval Combat Demolition Units (NCDUs) and Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) of World War II. In reality, the Navy’s special warfare activity started in August 1942 with the Amphibious Scouts and Raiders.