Missing Navy Seals

... 😧 crazy and my mind is racing. Perhaps this is similar to the four SEALS lost at sea (drown) and their bodies never recovered during the U.S. Invasion of Grenada. Night Ship Boarding ops is the most harrowing and risky operation... anything can go wrong, ocean pitch, missteps, lost grips, limited visibility, slippery ladder. Getting through to that thin cable ladder is like fast roping in reverse-extreme slow motion. Instead of worrying of that former 250 lbs former Navy linebacker following you during a fast rope, now your looking up at the same linebacker hoping he wouldn't slip... can be disastrous like a domino effect.

Update from ABC News: One Seal dove into the ocean in an attempt to rescue a fellow SEAL. With all that battle rattle in pitch black night during high waves... harrowing. Both are MIAs.
 
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My heart is still aching for their teammates and families.
 
... so everyday is precious in the next 30 months, spending time with DS, once in the Fleet, it's up to God what the future brings.
 
My heart is with the team, their shipmates and their families. The love for a teammate that would cause you to dive to assist a team mate is what gets me. I don’t have words.
 
Devil Doc said:
Unfortunate but not surprising news.

www.militarytimes.com

Navy SEALs who went missing during sea mission pronounced dead

The SEALs went missing off the coast of Somalia earlier this month.
www.militarytimes.com www.militarytimes.com
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From the article: “Officials have said that the SEAL mission was not related to Operation Prosperity Guardian, the ongoing U.S. and international mission to provide protection to commercial vessels in the Red Sea, or the retaliatory strikes that the United States and the United Kingdom have conducted in Yemen in recent weeks.”

A question that maybe cannot be answered, but are these kind of operations done always?? Is this last paragraph saying this is all unrelated to stuff going on over there? So is this standard military operations activities? Maybe it’s not for me to know.

God bless these men, and our military, for protecting us……
 
Devil Doc said:
@justdoit19 I don't anything about current ops in that area.
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I do, but I'm just a spouse of someone intricately involved so not sure what I can and can not say. I have no idea why the last paragraph says that but I would read the second to last paragraph a few times and you'll get a clearer picture. I will say those men were part of an otherwise very successful mission and definitely died heros.
 
justdoit19 said:
A question that maybe cannot be answered, but are these kind of operations done always?? Is this last paragraph saying this is all unrelated to stuff going on over there? So is this standard military operations activities? Maybe it’s not for me to know.

God bless these men, and our military, for protecting us……
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Google JSOC SMU

From the article:

The SEALs traveled in small special operations combat craft driven by naval special warfare crew to get to the boat. As they were boarding it in rough seas, around 8 p.m. local time, one SEAL got knocked off by high waves and a teammate went in after him.

I'm well aware of how quickly a person can get lost in the ocean at night in heavy seas, but what were the other crew members doing? Do SEALs not carry some kind of auto-inflate emergency flotation device? Do the boats not carry life lines?

Prayers for the families and team mates.
 
cb7893 said:
Google JSOC SMU

From the article:

The SEALs traveled in small special operations combat craft driven by naval special warfare crew to get to the boat. As they were boarding it in rough seas, around 8 p.m. local time, one SEAL got knocked off by high waves and a teammate went in after him.

I'm well aware of how quickly a person can get lost in the ocean at night in heavy seas, but what were the other crew members doing? Do SEALs not carry some kind of auto-inflate emergency flotation device? Do the boats not carry life lines?

Prayers for the families and team mates.
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I was wondering the same thing, but I have to assume that being these guys are the best of the best, they did everything they possibly could have given the constraints of their mission. Of course, we’ll never know all the details.
 
Blue Skies, Frogmen.

They were from "west coast Teams" otherwise unit not identified. I know DEVGRU AKA SEAL Team Six, a Tier 1 unit under operational control of JSOC, are administratively located at Dam Neck, VA.
 
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