Qazi Nashat Akram is an undergraduate student at NDU. His sphere of interest includes defense, security, military affairs, and intelligence.

SEAL Team 6 is the elite special forces unit within the Navy SEAL organization, established to carry out the most hazardous and precarious military operations. Their missions are characterized as involving high stakes and crises. The level of risk and difficulty in SEAL operations is considered next to insurmountable.

Traditionally, the United States Armed Forces have raised numerous special forces units to respond to high-profile assignments that involve hostage rescue and assassinating high-value targets. Most importantly, they operate seamlessly behind the enemy lines. However, due to the increasing complexity and introduction of novel tactics in warfare post-WWII, the US military opted to develop an elite commando unit that could operate in all three domains—land, sea, and air. As a result, President John F. Kennedy approved the establishment of the first two SEAL Teams of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group in 1962.

The antecedent organizations of the Navy SEALs were the Naval Combat Demolition Units and Underwater Demolition Teams. In WWII, these units were tasked with facilitating the amphibious operation of the US military through prior intelligence gathering and undermining enemy defenses at the shores in Europe and the Pacific. The personnel of these teams were called the Frogmen, who were trained to conduct underwater warfare effectively. Following the establishment of the two pioneer teams of SEALs, they were employed in the vast majority of the Vietnam War. It is estimated that eight platoons of SEALs were deployed in combat zones during the war.

It is pertinent to take into account the fact that officially SEAL Team 6 is known as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru). The task of DevGru is to develop essential equipment and tactics for the special forces units in accordance with the requirement of continuously evolving battlefield dynamics. The DevGru operates under the supervision of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC),........

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