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United States Navy SEAL/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- United States Special Operations Command [r]: A U.S. Unified Combatant Command with both functional and operational responsibilities, both to prepare special operations forces for the geographic commands, and to execute strategic special operations, typically under national orders and high security classification [e]
Subtopics
Operations
- Vietnam War [r]: A post-colonial independence/Cold War conflict between communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam, assisted by the United States (1955-1975), to unify Vietnam; won by North Vietnam in 1975. [e]
- Lien Doc Nguoi Nhia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MACV-SOG [r]: The U.S. organization responsible for covert operations against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, as well as related cross-border operations from South Vietnam into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War; the abbreviation had an unclassified cover meaning, but was actually the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Special Operations Group [e]
- Operation URGENT FURY [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operation JUST CAUSE [r]: 1989 brief U.S. invasion of Panama to remove the government of Manuel Noriega; this is the public "code name" — the actual classified name for planning was BLUE SPOON [e]
- Afghanistan War (2001-) [r]: Beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9-11 attacks, military operations against the Taliban and al-Qaeda by United States and NATO forces [e]
- Battle of Tora Bora [r]: A battle of the Afghanistan War (2001-), in which allied special operations forces, principally using Afghan troops, attempted to kill or capture an escaping Osama bin Laden [e]
- Iraq War [r]: Invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries, led by the United States, in 2003, and subsequent occupation [e]
- Task Force 151 [r]: A multinational naval task force, created around Expeditionary Strike Group TWO from United States Central Command, which is conducting counter-piracy operations in the waters off Somalia; now under Turkish Navy command [e]
- USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) [r]: A United States Navy destroyer of the Burke-class, Flight IIA version [e]
People
- Draper Kaufman [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rudy Boehm [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Richard Marcinko [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Littoral Combat Ship [r]: Lighter than a U.S. destroyer or frigate, (but heavier than a corvette or fast attack craft) relatively low-cost U.S. Navy warship type, capable of ocean crossings but optimized for coastal operations including mine warfare (MIW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASW). [e]
- Submarine [r]: A ship or boat that can travel underwater [e]
