• @[email protected]
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    210 months ago

    He was technically, if Wikipedia is to believed.

    He was a Naval Special Warfare Officer so not a SEAL Operator but technically that still is a Navy SEAL.

    I know nothing about this person other than their wiki but I’m sure they conveniently leave off the fact they weren’t an Operator when saying they are a Navy SEAL.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      210 months ago

      What’s the difference? Really asking, I don’t know this stuff.

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        10 months ago

        I’m no expert but as I understand it, a SEAL Operator is the SEAL you think of when you think of a Navy SEAL aka the guy in the frog suit with the gun rising out of the water to take a beach.

        A Naval Special Warfare Officer is part of the support staff to the SEAL Operators effectively. I don’t know what specifically their function is (you can google it) but they probably do battlefield tactics for the actual Operators, they don’t go into actual battle.