And SEALS have really big mouths these days!
I dunno. The only one I know today is married to the daughter of an ex,and he is now retired and working in some sort of administrative/training job related to the SEALS.
Don't know for sure what it is and I know better than to ask because chances are he would have to lie to me.
I do know that he served as part of a body guard detachment for some local warlord in Shitstainistan at one time when he was on active duty,but that's it. I THINK he was an officer,but am not sure about that because with special projects people,it is not always easy to tell who is in charge of anything on any given day and time.
He knows I was with SOG,but AFAIK,he doesn't even know what SOG was because he has never asked,not even when I told him I had served a tour plus with SOG.
Then again,unlike SOG ops in VN,the SEAL operations are still going on somewhere,so it's best if nobody but PR pukes say much about them. MY stuff is ancient history,and his stuff is current.
This is the way these things are supposed to be,and I have no problem with it.
BTW,I don't know how things are done in ANY special ops community these days,but back in the 60's,in SF,you didn't even get to BE on a team unless a team leader asked for you and you agreed to volunteer.
And make NO mistake about it,the team leader WAS the boss of that team. I have seen 6 man recon teams in SF that had a E-6 as the recon team leader,a E-5-E-7 as the assistant team leader,and a freaking 0-3 Captain as the radio operator that carried the radio and was junior in authority to everyone else on the team. The man with the most experience WAS the team leader,and the man with the least experience carried the radio. That IS how it was.