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No, not since 1994, when we tested the watch out and found that it flooded after a couple weeks of diving as shallow as 25 feet. The watch is too bright for tactical operations, and is analog, where most of our guys where a digital watch because of its more precise timing. The most common issued watches are Suunto and G-Shock, but it is largely up to personal preference.

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All sailors, regardless of rank or rate, begin receiving pay immediately upon reporting for duty to Basic Training. It continues until you separate from the service, and whether you continue to receive anything depends on your method of separation (retirement, disability, etc.).

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"De Oppresso Liber" which means to "Liberate The Oppressed."

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Naked Warriors. Men with green faces. Frogmen. Operators

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The designator is actually SWCC - it stands for Special Warfare Combatant Crewmen, and is pronounced "Swick". It is the warfare designator for the Special Warfare Boat Operator (SB) rate.

The SWCC's are the special boat operators for the Navy SEAL's, inserting and extracting them in hostile territory, in any conditions, using special skills and tactics. Trained in parachuting, first aid, radio, engineering, weapons, etc., they are who the SEAL's depend on to get them into and out of enemy territory with precision and speed.

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No he was just a Navy diver. The Seals were not around until 1962 a few years before his accident that took his leg.

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They do. technically the USMC is part of the Navy Department, as for many decades the Air Force was part of the Army ( no longer true=but look at the song!)

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There are two types of "Diver Down" flags: the well known US version and an international version.

The US version is a rectangular red flag with a single, wide white stripe running diagonally from the top left corner to bottom right corner.

The international "Diver Down" flag is blue and white. It has a vertical white strip with two blue swallow tails. This flag is International Flag Code A (pronounced phonetically as 'alfa' or 'alpha'.) When flown as part of a message, this flag represents the character "A". When this flag is flown independently, it takes on the meaning of the "Diver Down" flag.

Both flags are intended to send the following message to other vessels: "I have a diver down. Keep well clear at slow speed." Check the links for images and specifications.

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No it is not by any means. it is atmospheric air compressed with the high amounts of carbons and other gases lowered or removed.

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To me, I think the best Socom game is FTB2 (Fireteam Bravo 2) because FTB2 has lots of missions, you can play online just requiring Internet Connection which is very easy to get. I'll tell you why there is Socom US Navy Seals:Tactical Strike and not a FTB4. Tactical means movement. In Tactical Strike, you have 4 teammates with you in missions. How to play the game? Well, you press o to move your teammates. You tell them to fire your weapons at the enemy; meaning that you don't control the team, you must press circle to move the team and you watch. When you press circle, you get an arrow. Then, you move the arrow where you want to move your team to. It's kind of stupid. So don't buy the game called Socom US Navy Seals:Tactical Strike, I repeat, don't buy the game Socom US Navy Seals:Tactical Strike. I guarantee you that you'll regret it. FTB3 has very few missions to do. 8 missions. And basically, you just repeat those missions to earn more CE. (Command Equity)

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Yes. Dive physics and demolition calculations. All this is taught in bud/s and only a basic initial knowledge of math is required.

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Four Star Admiral

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Sea, Air, Land.

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They have been brushed by the Tar and served before the mast since their creation, but today the U.S. Marine Corps is not a branch of the U.S. Navy - it is a separate service branch within the Department of the Navy, the civilian branch of the Department of Defense tasked with overseeing the Navy and Marine Corps.

Since the Navy and Marines have historically been so closely associated (Marines are embarked on Naval vessels, and the two have always participated closely in joint operations for many years) the decision was made to bring the two under one authority.

Even so, the two branches have their own separate and distinct Chain of Command - the Secretary of the Navy oversees the two, but the Navy is headed by the Chief of Naval Operations, while the Marines are commanded by the Commandant of the Marine Corps. Both officers are normally 4-star ranks.

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Diving, using trapped/contained ambient pressure air with no air-supply connection to the surface, likely began many centuries ago. With enough weight to counteract the buoyancy of the trapped air, almost anything is possible, and was probably attempted. Breath-hold or 'free' diving's origins, however, can be traced back to several thousand years BC, most likely attempts to salvage sunken treasure from wrecked ships. Both commercially and recreationally, free diving is still, by far, the most common and frequent. Cheapest, too. Strictly speaking, however, Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, or SCUBA, using pressurized (150 atmospheres/approx 5300(!!!)lbs) air with a downstream user-demand regulator valve can be very closely dated. In his (highly reccomended) 1953 book, "The Silent World", Capitaine Jacques-Yves Cousteau describes how, in June, 1943, he first tested (his own design of) the world's first (23kg) 'aqualung', accompanied by Phillipe Taillez as (surface) dive-boat 'tender' and Frederic "Didi" Dumas as 'safety' (skin) chase diver. Capitaine Cousteau's wife, Simone was to observe only, using mask and schnorkle.

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Special Air Service and Special Boat Service; elite units of the British military created to fight the Axis in World War 2. The SAS is still in existence. Not sure about the SBS.

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Webster's II New Riverside Dictionary defines Heyday -- A time of maximum power, prosperity, or popularity. "HEYDAY goes back to an Anglo-Saxon use of 'hey' as an expression of great enthusiasm and happiness. So a person's 'heyday' is the period of his greatest vigor and success." From "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins, New York, 1977, 1988).

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It's just barely possible you could under the right conditions. You'd need to be quite close to the submarine, and they'd be distorted and difficult to understand, the same way you can hear your neighbors in an apartment building but not necessarily be able to understand what they're saying. It doesn't seem likely you could hear conversational voices; they'd probably have to be shouting.

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nobody really but the poeple in it because most of the information about the navy seals is classified information

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Well the first person was wrong. There is one female Q Course Qualified Green Beret. It was a long story but it was what the movie GI Jane was all about, but they just change the military service for a better story. She was released several times for not making the qualification but always returned to her class due to political pressure from congress above the military branches. At one point she was away from the training for 3 months and returned to the training class that she left while the continued the struggle. She graduated with the class and was awarded the Green Beret patch " Special Forces " but soon after left the Special Operations Command and got in trouble in the military and left the military completely to promote her status as the first woman in the US Special Operations Command as an Green Beret.

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alfredo is 5 years older than juan. how old now if in 8 years the sum of thier ages is 35?

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No - current Medical Disqualifications for military service in any branch include surgical spinal fusions involving 2 vertebrae (which means pretty much any of them).

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The precursor units to the SEALs operated in both theaters of war. In the Pacific the UDT Underwater Demolition Teams cleared and mapped the beach landings prior to the USMC assaults. In the European theater the NCDU Naval Combat Demolition Units performed similar functions.

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I'm sure without looking most people quote the wiki answer, PO 3