Students in Sea Air and Land (SEAL) qualification training navigate the surf off the cost of Coronado during a maritime operations training exercise. The 26-week program takes students from a very basic level, to a more advanced degree of technical and tactical operations.
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Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL students conduct a patrolling exercise during the third phase of training at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. During the third phase of BUD/S, students learn weapons, demolitions, land navigation and patrolling techniques. The Navy SEALs are the maritime component of U.S. special forces unit and are trained to conduct a variety of operations from the sea, air and land.
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Navy SEALs conduct close quarters combat training in a simulated home at U.S. Training Center Moyock.
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A Navy SEAL communicates with teammates during immediate action drills at the John C. Stennis Space Center. The drills are a part of the SEALs pre-deployment training.
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Naval special warfare members test the capabilities of a new night vision target system. Navy SEALs are maritime special operations forces that strike from the sea, air and land. They operate in small numbers, infiltrating their objective areas by fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, Navy surface ships, combatant craft and submarines. SEALs have the ability to conduct a variety of high-risk missions, utilizing unconventional warfare, direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue, diversionary attacks and precision strikes. US Navy SEALs, legendarily tough, secretive specialists, led the bold commando operation in Pakistan that took down the world’s most wanted man: 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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Navy SEALs enter a simulated home while practicing close quarters combat at U.S. Training Center Moyock.
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Basic crewman training students paddle a combat rubber raiding craft through San Diego Bay during their first underway in a CRRC at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Basic crewman training is the first phase of the special warfare combatant-craft crewman training. SWCCs operate and maintain the Navy’s inventory of state-of-the-art, high-performance boats used to support SEALs in special operations missions worldwide.
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Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL students work together during small boat training known as surf passage training. Prior to becoming Navy SEALs students must endure a year of intense training.
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Basic Underwater Demolition/Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) students take part in log physical training. Teammates work through their second hour of log physical training at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado. Navy SEALs are named after the environment in which they operate, the Sea, Air, and Land, and are the foundation of Naval Special Warfare combat forces.
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Students in the third phase of the Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL school (BUDS) repel down a 60-foot tower in Coronado. For those students who go on to become Navy SEALs, this marks the first of many repels to come in their careers.
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Students hit the surf before the start of training in Coronado, Calif.
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Crewman Qualification Training (CQT) students charge the beach during a medical evacuation drill at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif.
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Basic crewman training (BCT) students jump from a dive platform during a training session at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.
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Crewman Qualification Training (CQT) students secure a simulated casualty to a spine board during a medical training scenario at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado.
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SEALs exit a helicopter before securing the beach during a capabilities demonstration at the annual East Coast SEAL reunion.
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SEALs perform Advanced Cold Weather training to experience the physical stress of the environment and how their equipment will operate, or even sound, in adverse conditions. Navy SEALs are maritime special operations forces that strike from the sea, air and land. They operate in small numbers, infiltrating their objective areas by fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, Navy surface ships, combatant craft and submarines. SEALs have the ability to conduct a variety of high-risk missions, utilizing unconventional warfare, direct action, special reconnaissance, combat search and rescue, diversionary attacks and precision strikes.
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SEALs practice Over The Beach evolutions during a training exercise. SEALs are known for their ability to meet the mission objective in a clandestine way. Navy SEALs are maritime special operations forces that strike from the sea, air and land.
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Crewman Qualification Training (CQT) students provide cover for their teammates in a medical evacuation training scenario at the Naval Special Warfare Center in Coronado, Calif.
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A SEAL member provides cover for his teammates advancing on a suspected location of al-Qaeda and Taliban forces. Navy special operations forces are conducting missions in Afghanistan and Iraq in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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A U.S. Navy SEALs jump from a Philippine Navy ship and swim towards the shore in their continuing training during a joint military exercise.
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A U.S. Navy Seal conduct a free-fall parachute training jump from a U.S. Army UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter. The U.S. Navy snipers who fired three flawless shots from the bow of the USS Bainbridge to kill a trio of Somali pirates and free American merchant Capt. Richard Phillips early Monday morning, had parachuted into the sea to join the destroyer.
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SEAL Qualification Training students parachuting out of a C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft during a routine training exercise over San Diego Bay.
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Navy SEALs perform a live fire exercise at the Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek’s shooting facility.
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A Navy SEALs conduct a special reconnaissance on a suspected location of al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan.
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A SEAL team member participates in an exercise during Forward Air Controller School in Fallon, Nev. SEALS use these skills identifying potential targets for Special Operations Forces and warning coalition ground forces of nearby enemy activity.
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A U.S. Navy SEALs team lands on the deck of USS Oscar Austin during the Truman Battle Group Joint Task Force Exercise.
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A U.S. Navy Seal Special Forces soldier conducts rehearsal, training and pre-operation conformation on the MK 12 sniper rifle.
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A SEAL Team member looks through the scope of a sniper rifle to help enlarge targets. Training targets are often hundreds of meters away and using the sniper rifle scope ensures the sniper has a clear shot at his intended target.
