Commander: What People Get Wrong About SEALs
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Gen. Stanley McChrystal explains what most people get wrong about Navy SEALs
Most people think of Navy SEALs as superheroes who work together like a real-life Avengers team.
Photo: US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Adam Henderson
The SEALs are undeniably remarkable, but for a different reason, says retired four-star Gen. Stanley McChrystal in his book “Team of Teams,” co-written with Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell. McChrystal led the US war in Afghanistan before stepping down in 2010.
“Americans enjoy the exciting, cinematic vision of a squad of muscle-bound Goliath boasting Olympian speed, strength, and precision; a group whose collective success is the inevitable consequence of the individual strengths of its members and the masterful planning of a visionary commander,” McChrystal writes, before adding that this is the wrong lens to view them in.
http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1669951-commander-what-people-get-wrong-about-seals
