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Originally Posted by Mr Pheer
The Navy wont officially say how many are on a team, just like there are not really six teams.
Or at least that is what I was told from the SEAL that gave my squad the instructions on zodiac raft deployment, operation, and recovery during Jungle Warfare School in Panama back in '93.
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Since 2002 there have been 8 official SEAL teams.
Naval Special Warfare Group 1 (SEAL Teams 1, 3, 5, 7) are located on the West Coast out of Coronado. BUD/s training (Basic Under Water / SEAL Training) is also centralized here.
Naval Special Warfare Group2 (SEAL Teams 2,4,7,10) are located on the East Coast out of Virginia Beach.
Seal Team 6 has been officially "retired" but most often refers to the Naval Special Warfare Development Group or more commonly just called DEVGRU.
A Seal Team has roughly 120 SEALs. (Could be slightly more if there are 3rd officers assigned to any of the platoons). In total there are about 300 people including support staff for each team.
Before a SEAL makes his first deployment is going to have undergone a around 3 years of training. He will then make a 6 month deployment. After that deployments run in 2 year cycles. 18 months of training broken up in to 3 different 6 month phases followed by a 6 month deployment.
DEVGRU seals are the best of the best. Most people don't have what it takes to be SEALs and in a similar fashion most SEALs don't have what it takes to be a DEVGRU seal. It's the gold standard. Men chosen to be DEVGRU SEALs will typically have a minimum of 2 deployments under their belt. That means they've been a SEAL for at least 7-8 years at the time. These men would be offered 6 figure re-enlistment bonuses. That's how highly prized these senior men are.
To suggest that the government is killing their top assets off to cover up something is just stupid. To go further and suggest that SEAL leadership would be complacent with it is absolutely insane.
Of course, we're talking about Simon here and he is dumb as fuck.