SEAL Team Six again
 

SEAL Team Six again

hostage rescue in Somalia, if you haven't heard...

http://news.yahoo.com/us-military-ra...063438091.html

Sounds like the squids out of Dam Neck (where DEVGRU as they're officially known as resides, I live not too far from there) achieved another good result. The Somalis are claiming a few of their fighters are missing, my guess is the SEALS snatched them and took them back for interrogation.

And my guess is that the SEALS are gonna be insufferable again for a while, bad enough they had to get Bin Laden (only kidding there of course...) :p

I like insufferable SO guys. They get that way after successes. The more insufferable, the better.

Good point.

Though I wouldn't have known if they were at all insufferable or not when I was at Dam Neck that one time (only as a civilian contractor, mind you, and no, NOT that kind). Pretty quiet, but very professional and polite bunch...though it's exactly that type that I've been taught you need to worry about the most...

P.S., fanboys and wannabes should think twice before trying to check out the DEVGRU compound uninvited, it's a virtual base-within-a-base with multiple levels of security, hard to even get near it.

That Somalia op got coverage in the Australian media too. I was very, very happy when I read the details (such as have been made available anyway). The 5 pirates the SEALs took away with them are in for some miserable times ahead.

The goings on in Somalia and the Horn of Africa are of particular interest to my state because it's directly across the Indian Ocean from me.

The news in the US (at least what I keep track of on TV and Internet) say that the SEALs had orders to capture the bad guys, but they fought back and the SEALs had to kill all of them. So they didn't have any prisoners to take.

The online AP and Reuters reports that I've read, which are by far more reliable and less biased than the crap fed to us on TV, mentioned 9 kidnappers killed and several more (number undisclosed) captured. I'm sure that the SEALs are competent enough that if their orders said to capture some, that they would do precisely that and shoot to wound rather than kill, regardless of how much the baddies were "resisting". These guys are consummate professionals and can put rounds wherever they want them to go. They aren't like local cops who "accidentally" kill people.