Posts tagged ‘navy seals’

The Coronado Historical Association (CHA) will hold a presentation entitled US Navy SEALs: A 50th Anniversary Retrospective on March 22 at 1100 Orange Avenue in Coronado, CA from 5:30 – 7 p.m. Coronado High School Eagle Scout Kyler Smith will provide an insightful presentation involving a series of video-taped interviews with Navy SEALs who lived [...]

Navy SEALs Aim for Diversity

November 9th, 2010

A feature on the Navy Times share that the Naval Special Warfare Center is focusing its marketing and awareness campaigns on being able to attract minority candidates to become Navy SEALs. This is all part of the Naval Special Warfare Command’s thrust towards diversity in the military. The campaign is said to be especially interested [...]

Each of the Navy SEALs who have been charged with assaulting suspected terrorist Ahmed Hashim Abed has his own defense lawyer. Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas, who is charged with dereliction of duty, making a false official statement and impeding an official investigation, is being defended by Monica L. Lombardi. Like Matthew McCabe’s lawyer [...]

The trials of two of the three Navy SEALs who are facing assault charges for allegedly physically mishandling a suspected terrorist while the latter was in detention will be moved to Iraq. We – and the rest of America – have been following the story of Navy SEALs since news of their being charged with [...]

As a third-generation military veteran, I have seen my fair share of service members performing their duties under volatile, emotionally-charged, extreme circumstances. I’ve heard stories from brave men and women in situations that most of us would only see in movies or hear about on the news. Even in my own family, there are tales [...]

Remembering John F. Kennedy

November 23rd, 2009

One cannot look back at the beginnings of the Navy SEALs without thinking of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. It was under his presidency when the Navy SEALs actually came into being, despite the fact that the SEALs can trace their “ancestry” to teams who fought as far back as the Second World War. [...]