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Nell did you click on the picture, cause if you did thats cheating(shakes head with mock dissaproval)
Also Rick your right, they are both Delta Force and volluntered to protect the second Black Hawk Mike Durant whent down in. They were killed when it was over run.
Absolutely Proud,you can remove that from the properties link,if you want to:D
How do you do that?
That's Mucci.
Who's this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...1039822469.jpg
Nah you gotta talk tech with Rick or somebody else,I cant talk you through that one LOL!
Its Fransic Marion the "Swamp Fox" right? Recognized his picture and so i checked my Ranger Handbook.
Can you guess my guy.
The Navy guy. I have seen his pic, Beo put the same pic up. For the life, I can't remember him.
He has got to be a seal, I'll find out sooner or later.
Yeah he is a SEAL, think more recent SEALs
Hey did I get your guy right?
Swamp Fox, ya nailed him.
Is that an early pic of Marcinko? Only pics you see of him now are the ones with a pony tail and beard and stach.
I've got his book around here somewhere.
Yes it is.
After enlisting in the US Navy in 1958, Marcinko worked as a teletype operator at Naval Support Activity, Naples, Italy. The restless young sailor got into a fight with another sailor and sent him to the hospital. According to his biography, his commanding officer sent him to UDT training as punishment, where Marcinko wanted to go, anyway; he went so far as to claim that he found the rigorous training "perversely enjoyable". During his first assignment to UDT-21, his superior was Chief Petty Officer Everett E. Barrett. Barrett was a crusty, gruff-talking man and Marcinko often said he was the most profane man he ever knew. However, Barrett was mentor to Marcinko and encouraged him to enter Officer Candidate School (OCS). Barrett taught his young protege to look after and mentor the men who served under him. He referred to this leadership technique as "Barrett's First Law Of The Sea." Marcinko always revered Barrett and mentions him in every book he has written. In fact, he dedicated one of his novels to Barrett and the first Navy SEAL Roy Boehm as two leaders who always led from the front.
Marcinko was commissioned as an Ensign upon graduation from OCS in December of 1965. In June of 1966 he transferred to SEAL Team Two and received orders for Vietnam.
Vietnam
On May 18, 1967 Marcinko led his men in an assault on Ilo-Ilo Island where they killed a large number of Vietcong personnel and destroyed six of their sampans. The US Navy referred to it as "the most successful SEAL operation in the (Mekong River) Delta." Subsequently Marcinko was awarded the first of his four Bronze Stars, as well as a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star, from the ARVN. Upon arriving in the United States at the completion of this tour, he was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade.
Marcinko immediately returned to Vietnam after a few months stateside, again with SEAL Team 2 as the officer in command of Eighth Platoon. During the Tet Offensive his platoon was sent to assist the US Army Special Forces at Chau Doc. What began as an urban street battle turned into a rescue mission of American nurses trapped in the city's church and hospital.
After completing his second tour in Vietnam, and a two-year stateside staff assignment Marcinko was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and subsequently assigned as the Naval Attache to Cambodia in 1973. After serving for 18 months and upon leaving Cambodia for orders stateside, Marcinko became the Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Two.
SEAL Team Six
During the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, Marcinko was one of two Navy representatives for a Joint Chiefs of Staff task force known as the TAT (Terrorist Action Team). The purpose of the TAT was to develop a plan to free the American hostages held in Iran which culminated in Operation Eagle Claw. In the wake of the operation's disaster at Desert One, the Navy saw the need for a full-time dedicated Counter-Terrorist Team and tasked Marcinko with its design and development.
Marcinko was the first commanding officer of this new unit which he named SEAL Team Six (purportedly to confuse other nations into believing that the United States had five previous SEAL teams that they were unaware of). The men in the unit were handpicked by Marcinko himself from across the US Navy's Special Operations personnel. SEAL Team Six would be known as the US Navy's premier counter-terrorist unit. It has also been compared favorably to the US Army's Delta Force. Marcinko held the command of SEAL Team Six for three years from 1980-1983 instead of what was typically a two-year command in the Navy at the time.
Red Cell
After leaving command at SEAL Team Six, Marcinko was tasked by Vice Admiral James "Ace" Lyons, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, to design a unit to test the Navy's vulnerability to terrorism. The name of the unit was Naval Security Coordination Team OP-06D. In 1984 Marcinko hand-picked twelve men from SEAL Team Six and one from Marine Force Recon and the unit was unofficially named Red Cell.
This team tested the security of naval bases, nuclear submarines, ships, civilian airports and a U.S. embassy. Marcinko was directed to use his team to test the Navy's anti-terrorist capabilities. As a result he was able to infiltrate seemingly impenetrable, highly-secured bases, nuclear submarines, ships and other purported "secure areas", including the U.S. Presidential plane Air Force One.
Among the other claims Marcinko makes are the assertions that Red Cell successfully captured nuclear devices from United States Navy facilities, and proved the viability of plans to penetrate and attack nuclear-powered submarines, to destroy the subs by using them as improvised dirty bombs and to capture launch codes for nuclear weapons aboard the subs by using mild torture against personnel in custody of launch codes. Former members of Red Cell, notably Steve Hartmann and Dennis Chalker, maintain that these exercises were a cover to move SPECWAR operators around the world for covert missions against real-world terrorists.
I knew that pic looked familar. I had his first book laying around here somewhere, and that is the pic that was on the inside cover.
That pic has been "gettin me" since Beo put it up.
My mind can rest now.
Here is an easy one.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1..._Boyington.jpg
Pappy Boyington
Way too easy.
Try this gent.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...icholas-lo.jpg
Samuel Nicholas. First commissioned officer of the U.S. Continental Marines.
Close, but no cookie.
You're right, my bust. I thought I had copied Robert Mullan's pic. Mullan was the guy who's mother owned Tun Tavern.
He was commissioned as a Capt. in 1776.
Here is my pic of Samuel Nicholas
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...l_Nicholas.jpg