United States Navy SEALs | |
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Active | January 1, 1962 – present (62 years, 8 months) |
Country | United States |
Branch | United States Navy |
Type | Special operations force |
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Garrison/HQ | Naval Amphibious Base Coronado Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek |
Nickname(s) | "Frogmen", "The Teams", "Team Guys", "The Men with Green Faces"[2] |
Motto(s) | "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday"[3] "It Pays To Be A Winner". "Never Out Of The Fight". |
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The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments. SEALs are typically ordered to capture or kill high-level targets, or to gather intelligence behind enemy lines.[8] SEAL team personnel are hand-selected, highly trained, and possess a high degree of proficiency in unconventional warfare (UW), direct action (DA), and special reconnaissance (SR), among other tasks like sabotage, demolition, intelligence gathering, and hydro-graphic reconnaissance, training, and advising friendly militaries or other forces.[9][1] All active SEALs are members of the U.S. Navy.[13]