reply to post by Htrowklis82
The problem people have is that they are getting all their information about the SEALs form the internet and what they are reading in the News papers.
The name SEAL Team Six was originally intended to confuse the enemy at the time of SEAL Team Six’s conception there were only two other SEAL Teams 1
and 2. Now SEAL Team Six is not even a SEAL team, of which there are now 9 plus two other “vehicle delivery teams”, these are tier two Special
Forces like the Green Berets.
SEAL Team Six is actually called the United States Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG) and it is tier one, completely separate from the other
SEAL teams however it is commonly and inaccurately called SEAL Team Six. In the media and on ATS this has lead to some confusion, SEAL Team Six
sounds like a team in much the same way as a Football team but this is not true. SEAL Team Six or NSWDG is actually divided up in to 4 squadrons (I
have read possibly 5) and in each squadron it’s further broken down into troops and those are father broken down into small man patrol groups. The
size of NSWDG is classified however the ball park figure quoted is usually between 250-350.
The men involved in the operation Neptune Spear came from Red Squadron, the men in this helicopter crash were from Gold Squadron. The OP talks about
“Of the 17 Navy SEALs, 15 were from the top-secret unit that took out al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.” What that most likely
means is that 15 where from SEAL Team Six and 2 where possibly form another of the SEAL Teams or is talking about Snipers form Black Squadron. The
important thing to remember is this, red squadron killed OBL, a troop from Gold Squadron was shot down in the helicopter crash.
This biggest problem is ignorance