An exclusive photo of Gabby Giffords and a Navy SEAL skydiving in 2009. Sadly, both have been injured by gunfire since. The SEAL was shot just months after the photo in a gunfight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
SEAL Target Geronimo explodes a number of media myths about the raid to kill bin Laden. It was not a “kill mission” from the start. The SEALs had no explicit orders to kill the archterrorist and would have captured him if possible. There was no “45-minute” running gun battle. The SEAL team fired only 12 bullets, and the whole operation lasted only 38 minutes.
Richard Miniter reviews the new book detailing the night al Qaeda’s chief died—and the headaches it could cause Obama.
“This swim-up bar’s still serving, yea?”
“Sometimes when I squeeze my eyes tight enough, stars pop out.”
“Yea…you ordered a marshmallow? Too bad. I’m a seal. Deal with it.”
The men most likely to succeed as SEALs, according to a 2010 Gallup study commissioned by the Navy, are at least 5-foot-8 and 162 pounds, eschew Big Four sports for pastimes like water polo, snowboarding, and lacrosse, and hail from “New England, the northern Plains, or the West Coast.” Their average age is 22 to 25.
Some highlights from the Navy SEAL workout:
- getting “drown-proofed”: swimming with bound arms and legs
- “surf torture” (official name: water immersion): a prolonged bob in the 60-degree Pacific Ocean
- jumping on and off a pier while being hosed down with cold water
- retrieving a raft from a distant shed and supporting the 150-pound object—packed with paddles and gear—on your head
- “Hell Week,” a five-day regime of simulated battle stress—and less than four hours of sleep a night
- more than 150 miles of swimming more than 1,300 miles of running over the full six months training
A shepherd or a Malinois runs twice as fast as a human.
More about the dog that accompanied the SEALs on their bin Laden mission. And a great excuse for a dog article.
(Source: The New York Times)
The original plan was for the Navy SEALs to rappel down into the compound, and that’s how they practiced it in April on a replica of the compound the military constructed in the U.S. on which SEALs Team Six conducted two practice runs.
But Sunday, one of the helicopters had an issue – they’re not sure what as of now – and conducted a soft crash landing. The chopper hit the deck – “it was a real white-knuckle moment,” a US official tells ABC News.
Reblogged from ABC News Radio Archive
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