When Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recruits personnel for the secretive Naval Special Warfare Development Group, aka Team 6, the unit that killed bin Laden, it looks only at SEALs.
Pentagon officials have relied heavily on these units during the decades-long global campaign against terrorist organizations. Kennedy in 1962, THE SEALs operate in every environment imaginable to reach inaccessible places, collect battlefield intelligence, attack high-value targets and train foreign troops.
SEALs (the acronym stands for 'Sea, Air and Land') were legendary warriors long before the bin Laden raid.
Bullets, bodies and well-orchestrated carnage: The Navy SEALs were here. The raiders suffered no casualties but crashed a helicopter, which they blew up to preserve its secrets. Special- operations unit during a nighttime air assault. Itʼs may 2, and The world is learning that Osama bin Laden is dead, killed by a U.S. Inside the building, four corpses, shot dead, lie in congealing blood. Stunned neighbors mill around the 10-foot-high walls as the Pakistani military cordons off the area.
Eric Ogden Thick black smoke rises from a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
