I cam across a very cool webinar today, over at the official US Navy website, it is an interview with a Navy SEAL, asking him how he became a SEAL and what its like to be one. I was somewhat surprised by the route he took to becoming a SEAL, starting out with the Navy [...]

Today I am going to take a look at the SEAL Creed, and some of the concepts it tries to get across. First let me quote the entire first passage… In times of war or uncertainty there is a special breed of warrior ready to answer our Nation’s call. A common man with uncommon desire [...]

I came across Marcus Littrell’s account of escaping Afghanistan, whilst wounded, while he was serving as team with the US Navy SEALs today, and I have to say it is quite frankly astonishing. It isn’t the obviously heroic endeavour which saw him travelling wounded through enemy lines to escape into Pakistan, what I find most [...]

Until I watched this YouTube video I had no idea how long it can take a US Navy SEAL sniper team to actually move into position. It is quoted in the movie that it can take an entire day for a sniper to move 200 metres! That just has to be incredibly boring? Or possibly [...]

I will admit straight away that I am scared of heights. No let me be more specific, I am very scared of heights, you know those kinds of bar stool that are usually set along the edge of a bar and you are sitting about 3 feet off the floor? I get scared sitting on [...]

Our last two posts have taken a look at SEAL weaponry, so I figured it is time to lighten things up a little, so today we are going to take a more lighthearted stance. Firstly, a Navy SEAL joke: Two navy SEALs board a plane flight, they take two seats closest to the window in [...]