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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Well documented SEAL operations from Vietnam to Abbottabad, and the Medal of Honor recipients whose stories every SEAL candidate hears.
41 total questions
Card #1
What was Operation Red Wings?
Card #2
Michael Murphy
Card #3
Michael Monsoor
1. During Operation Red Wings, an MH-47 Chinook carrying a quick reaction force of SEALs and Army aviators was shot down. Which Army unit were the aviators from?
2. The lone survivor of Red Wings was taken in and protected by Afghan villagers. Which Pashtun tradition obliged them to do it?
3. Which Navy ship carried the SEAL snipers who ended the 2009 Maersk Alabama hostage standoff?
1. The helicopters for the bin Laden raid flew into Pakistan from the Afghan city of ___.
Hint: Eastern Afghanistan, near the Khyber Pass
2. During the Abbottabad raid one of the two modified ___ helicopters crashed inside the compound.
Hint: Army utility helicopter, UH-60
3. Michael Murphy's Medal of Honor was the first awarded for the war in ___.
Hint: Where Red Wings took place
