The Real SEAL

Only those who've been on a regular Navy SEAL team for several years can try out for Team 6 (the Navy's counterpart to the Army's Delta Force), and only about half of those who try out make it. Most of us know Team 6 as the group that found and killed Osama Bin Laden, but as this extensive, in-depth New York Times investigative piece shows, what we don't know about it could fill tomes. The team's current role, according to the report, "reflects America’s new way of war, in which conflict is distinguished not by battlefield wins and losses, but by the relentless killing of suspected militants.
   "Almost everything about SEAL Team 6, a classified Special Operations unit, is shrouded in secrecy — the Pentagon does not even publicly acknowledge that name — though some of its exploits have emerged in largely admiring accounts in recent years. But an examination of Team 6’s evolution, drawn from dozens of interviews with current and former team members, other military officials and reviews of government documents, reveals a far more complex, provocative tale" (story, video, GIF, links): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/world/asia/the-secret-history-of-seal-team-6.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0