Watch ABC's report on Team 6, the brightest and most physically fit. SEALs can stay under water for 2 minutes.
And the stories--they just keep coming:
The team of highly trained commandos who pulled off one of the most spectacularly successful special operations in modern military history – the killing of Osama bin Laden – was born out of a painful defeat.The SEALs will get their own private congratulatory ceremony:
An attempted helicopter rescue of 52 Americans being held hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, in 1980 ended in failure and resulted in the deaths of eight American servicemen.
Out of that failed mission came the creation of SEAL Team 6, a Virginia Beach-based special-forces unit devoted exclusively to anti-terrorism operations.
It was a group of specially trained operatives from SEAL Team 6 that stormed a secret compound in Pakistan over the weekend and killed the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in a daring nighttime raid. Read more at Virginia Pilot
