Kerrey decided he wanted to join the Navy SEALs, then a nascent special operations force. He soon found himself in Vietnam as one of two officers leading 12 enlisted sailors in SEAL Team 1.

Veteran Andy McTigue, whose service dog, Selkie, accompanied him to D.C, said his time in Vietnam led ... Ed joined him in the Navy as they went on to command SEAL teams themselves, so they ...

Rudy Boesch, the retired Navy SEAL who was one of the first ... of sailors selected to stand up SEAL Team 2, and served on two combat deployments to Vietnam, where he earned the Bronze Star ...

The Navy SEALs have their share of tragedies ... During the war in Afghanistan, however, a team of SEALs may have prevented a disaster. In late 2002, a team of SEALS was sent ahead of a group ...

Luttrell’s path to the SEALs was typical of the post-Vietnam era ... from the rest of the Navy for their air of machismo-infused independence. The first SEAL teams were officially created ...