Both Army Special Forces and Navy SEALS use underwater insertion means to reach objectives. But the SEALs take the underwater element to the next level; conducting raids from submarines while submerged.
Unlike in decades past, today, thanks to specially designed submersible attachments to several U.S. attack submarines the SEALS can deploy from and recover to a submerged submarine at sea. And in the world of near-peer conflict this is an incredible stealth special ops capability.
As Stavros Atlamazoglou notes in 19fortyfive:
In a conflict with China or Russia, submarine operations are a great way to deploy special-operations forces close to an enemy target.
The South China Sea, where Beijing is building and fortifying scores of man-made islands, or the Black Sea, where Moscow is turning Crimea into a fortress, would be ideal environments for such operations.
Atlamazoglou adds:
Submarine operations can be used to ferry a special-operations team close to a target without leaving a trace, making them the perfect starting point for a special reconnaissance, direct action, sabotage, hostage rescue, or personnel recovery operations.
Navy SEALs, the maritime component of US Special Operations Command, are the natural choice for such operations. From the start, SEAL training emphasizes the water element, and all SEALs get advanced underwater training.
But Navy SEALs aren’t the only special-operations unit in the US military that can launch from submarines. For example, Army Special Forces combat diver teams also train and conduct submarine operations.
The difference between the two units, however, is that Green Berets use combat diving as an insertion method — a way to the target — whereas Navy SEALs can also conduct direct action or sabotage operations at sea after launching from a submarine.
READ MORE ABOUT HOW SEALS TRAIN FOR THESE CHALLENGING MISSIONS AT 19fortyfive. ADN
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The DU M1Bycrats are truly trying to turn out nation into a Kommunist Diktatorship welfare state
I believe they should be worried about the Seals, Green Berets and almost every veteran and families and the Milita those of us who know who they are and for those who don’t the Milita mentioned in the Constutiin is the people those who live in this free country that everyone wants to live here that don’t. We the regular moms n dads, college students who haven’t been turned by the democrats and one who can fight and even some who should but will, that’s the Milita that’s why we are here to protect ourselves from the socialist we are supposed to wake up and millions of us have the right to walk into the capitol it’s our right to be there it’s called the people’s house for a reason, we have the right to go snd sit or stand in there and protest if we want who says we can’t the Democrats, we don’t need to rampage like they did unless the doors should be open but are locked for some reason. Anybody is allowed to walk in and wait for them to sit and talk. You can’t yell or scream during sessions but u can bring signs and say whatever after they are done speaking, anyone tells u different they are lying.
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They are trying to turn it into a Woke goof-ball outfit! We need to get rid of the Gen. pain in the butt Milley, Austin, and the Secretary of State Blinken, who isn’t worth it. This is the worst bunch of pretenders to ever sit in the WH, State Dept., or Pentagon. The absolute least qualified you could find.
Millie and Defense Secretary will manage to screw this up too, just give them more time. They are too busy now implementing CRT in our military now.
I used to live next to a Navy SEAL; great guy and a great friend; and no one to mess around with if you were his enemy.