SEAL Team Six Doesn’t Exist (and isn’t called Team Six)
posted at 9:25 pm on May 3, 2011 by John Sexton
It’s difficult to find anyone who will talk about Team Six, the mysterious group of SEALs who raided a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan Sunday and killed Osama bin Laden. But the AP did manage to find one former SEAL who was willing to talk a little bit about this top secret group:
These SEAL All-Stars have a lot more going for them than just muscle and weaponry:
Most are fluent in one or more foreign languages – on Sunday’s operation, some of the team were apparently able to speak Pashto – and candidates are also selected for their ability to blend in to any environment.
Team Six was created after the failed rescue attempt of the Iranian hostages. They were called “Team Six” in order to suggest to our adversaries that we had at least that many teams operating. In fact there were only two other SEAL teams at the time. Team Six was disbanded in 1987 but another, very similar team known as DEVGRU (Naval Special Warfare Development Group) started at the same time and DEVGRU was often referred to as “Team Six” in subsequent years.
However, even this name is now out of date. Apparently the Navy changed the name of the team but has not made the new designation public. So the group of SEAL all-stars that the press is calling Team Six has a name but no one will say what it is.
Just how tight lipped are these guys? Today, Bloomberg published this account:
Richard DeBerry Jr. said he knows a member of Navy SEAL Team Six, the elite, secretive unit that killed Osama bin Laden.
That friendship still won’t get him any details of the nighttime raid on the Pakistan compound of the terrorist who eluded capture for a decade.
“We’re not even going to try to pick his brain about it — he’s not going to say a thing,” DeBerry, 33, said in an office lined with baseball caps from Navy servicemen who bought cars. “You get drunk with them and they won’t tell you a thing about what happened on their missions. They don’t even tell their wives.”
There’s really only one thing we know for sure about this non-existent team with no name. They get the job done.
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If y’all heard my howling laughter, y’all would be afraid.
cozmo on May 8, 2013 at 12:50 PM
Organizer bus votes count just as much as intense votes. Good thing gubernatorial elections on VA don’t coincide with presidential elections.
forest on May 8, 2013 at 12:52 PM
As long as the polls are not filled with illegal votes and voters, no democrat should ever be elected again outside of New England and the Pacific coast. The rest of the country is still sane.
Wino on May 8, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Come on, Virginia, man up! Terry will spend all his time raising money for the Democrats.
Cindy Munford on May 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Every time you have “NBC/Marist Poll” in a headline, I always misread it as “NBC/Marxist Poll”. I think my version is more accurate.
Agent of the Cross on May 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM
Kenneth Cuccinelli could be a great.
Capitalist Hog on May 8, 2013 at 12:57 PM
LEVIN loves him some Cooch.
But would he be another Jeff Flake?
PappyD61 on May 8, 2013 at 1:00 PM
He he.. I always read it the same way.. Must be the correlation my brain makes between NBC and Marxists.
melle1228 on May 8, 2013 at 1:02 PM
I don’t understand the question, Jeff Flake is in Congress. One thing for sure, he won’t be Terry McAuliffe.
Cindy Munford on May 8, 2013 at 1:06 PM
Yes, McAuliffe can (and does) spew BS like an erupting volcano but he’s just another ‘tax and spend’ Marxist.
Thanks for posting. I thought perhaps I was the only one that red it that way.
PS As a Virginia resident, I don’t recall my household being contacted to contribute to an NBC/’Marxist’ poll. Guess I’ll have to express myself at my polling place.
oldleprechaun on May 8, 2013 at 1:18 PM
Nothing a truckload of missing ballots won’t fix. Add in a legion of illegal aliens, felons, dead and multiple voters… along with a couple of 100% Mccauliffe distiricts and it’s a landslide.
acyl72 on May 8, 2013 at 1:19 PM
…have his people vote more often!
KOOLAID2 on May 8, 2013 at 1:43 PM
Just like the dead heat in last night’s drubbing in SC.
Punchenko on May 8, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Wasn’t Romney winning the intensity gap? I will say this Ken Cuccinelli is a hottie, perhaps he should consider some shirtless campaign stops.
libfreeordie on May 8, 2013 at 2:01 PM
I hope that the Republicans learned a lesson from the election of Al Franken and that they like the Democrats have tens of thousands of ballots waiting to be “found” in closets, car trunks and anywhere else they can think of.
RJL on May 8, 2013 at 2:42 PM
Cooch has a face for the ladies (and a few others), and it is not hurting him. Maybe VA can let him go national in 2016.
leftnomore on May 8, 2013 at 10:27 PM