For SEAL candidates, Navy recruits heading to Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, and anyone interested in special operations. Covers SEAL history and operations, BUD/S, combat diving, how Naval Special Warfare is organised, and the shipboard basics every sailor learns.
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Where the SEALs came from: the WWII Scouts and Raiders, combat demolition units and frogmen, the Korean War, and the first SEAL Teams in 1962.
40 total questions
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What were the WWII Scouts and Raiders?
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Who was Draper Kauffman?
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What were the Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs)?
1. During the November 1943 assault on which Pacific target did landing craft ground on an unscouted reef, forcing Marines to wade ashore under fire and pushing the Navy to build swimming reconnaissance teams?
2. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, which Navy units went in to blow gaps through the German beach obstacles on the Normandy beaches?
3. In 1969 Navy frogmen jumped from helicopters to fit a flotation collar to the Apollo 11 capsule after splashdown. What type of unit were they from?
1. The Scouts and Raiders saw their first combat in November 1942 during Operation ___ in North Africa.
Hint: A light you carry
2. The Navy's combat demolition training began in 1943 at Fort ___, Florida, now home of the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum.
Hint: Florida town on the Atlantic coast
3. On D-Day the combat demolition units took their heaviest losses on ___ Beach.
Hint: Shares its name with a city in Nebraska
