{"id":3149,"date":"2011-05-03T05:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T05:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:50:15","slug":"seal-team-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3149","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Seal Team 6&#8221; &#8211; So classified even their official name is classified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Business Insider &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-team-that-killed-bin-laden-seal-team-6-2011-5?utm_source=Triggermail&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=Business%20Insider%20Select&amp;utm_campaign=BI_Select_050211\" target=\"_self\">Meet The &quot;Seal Team 6&quot;, The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama Bin Laden<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; background-color: transparent; color: #000000; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none;\">\n<p>The development of SEAL Team 6 was in direct response to the 1980 attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The Team was labeled 6 at the time to confuse Soviet intelligence about the number of SEAL teams in operation at the time. There were only two others.<\/p>\n<p>Team 6 poached the top operatives from other SEAL units and trained them even more intensely from there. Even among proven SEAL&#39;s the attrition rate for Team 6 is reported to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2008\/12\/army_sofsurge_122008w\/\">nearly half<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are no names available for current Team 6 members, but the CIA does recruit heavily from their numbers for their Special Operations Group, so it makes sense that they were chosen to work with the CIA on this mission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Business Insider &#8211; Meet The &quot;Seal Team 6&quot;, The Bad-Asses Who Killed Osama Bin Laden The development of SEAL Team 6 was in direct response to the 1980 attempt to rescue the American hostages held in Iran. The Team was labeled 6 at the time to confuse Soviet intelligence about the number of SEAL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5077,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}