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Authors: Robert A. Gormly

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Navy Cross:
Gallagher, Bob
Gallagher, Gary
Navy, U.S.:
career paths
customs
equipment
Mekong Delta
Officer Candidate School
SEALs
See
SEALs, U.S. Navy
Special Warfare Group One
Newell, Chuck:
Mekong Delta
training
Nha Be
Norfolk, Virginia
North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
Nui Coto
Nungs
Nunn-Cohen Amendment
Nuoc mam
NWAI (Nuclear Weapons Acceptance Inspection)
O'Bryan, Charles (Doc)
O'Dell, Digger
“Off bag” breathing
Oklahoma City bombing
Operation Bold Dragon
Operation Desert Storm
Operation Urgent Fury
OPNAV
OPSEC
Op-06
Oxygen toxicity
Pack, Dick
Packer
Paris peace talks
PBRs (river patrol boats)
Persian Gulf
Peters, Rich
Phoenix program
Plain of Reeds
PLO
Popular Force (PF)
Posse comitatus laws
POWs:
rescue attempts
search for
PRC-25 VHF radio
Price, Art
Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs)
Puerto Rico
Punji pits
Purple Heart: Gormly, Robert
Purselle, Dave
Quan
Quincannon, Joe
Radio Granada
Rappelling
Reagan, Ronald
Reconnaissance missions:
Bac Lieu
Long Tuan
Nui Coto
Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs)
Rung Sat
Reconnaissance, submerged swimmer
Red Cell
Rhinebolt, Jake:
training
Mekong Delta
Rhodes, Randy
River Patrol Force Tactical Operations Center (TOC)
Ruchamkin
Rules of engagement
Rumor board
Rung Sat
Rung Sat Special Zone
Russia
San Juan
Santo Domingo
Saratoga
SATCOM radios
Schaible, Dave:
training
leadership of
UDT-22 leader
Vietnam
Seal Beach, California
Sea Lion,
U.S.S.
SEALs, U.S. Navy (SEa Air Land):
attitude
classified status
funding
R & R
skills
training
See
Training; specific SEAL teams
Underwater Demolition Teams
See
Underwater Demolition Teams
Vietnam
See also
SEAL Team One: SEAL Team Six; SEAL Team Two; specific missions
SEAL Team Assault Boat (STAB)
SEAL Team One
Operation Bold Dragon
SEAL Team Six:
Achille Laura
equipment;
See also
Iron Eagle investigation
Joint Meritorious Unit Award
Marcinko, Dick
training
Urgent Fury
SEAL Team Two:
ambush missions
See
Ambush missions
Bay of Pigs
casualties
command status
equipment
funding
Operation Bold Dragon
2nd Platoon
3rd Platoon
9th Platoon
reconnaissance missions
See
Reconnaissance missions
training
weapons
Seawolf Light Helo Fire Team
Seawolves
Bac Lieu
Dung Island
SECNAV (Secretary of the Navy)
Secret Zones
Ba Xuyen
Binh Dai
Long Tuan
Vinh Long
Seven Mountains
Sign language
Silver Star:
Bishop, Bill
Bump, Charlie
Gormly, Robert
Marcinko, Dick
Slicks helicopters
Small Unit Tactics School
Smith, P. D
Smith, Ron
SOCOM (U.S. Special Operations Command)
Soc Trang
So Solly Day
Soto
South China Sea
South Vietnamese River Assault Groups
Soviet republics, former
Stay-awake pills
Stevens, Pete
Stoner machine gun
Street Without Joy
St. Thomas
Stubblefield, Gary
Sweesy, Jerry
Swimmer reel
Tan Dinh Island
Tarbox, Tom
Teheran
Telfer, Grant
Terrorism
Tet Offensive, effects of
Tolison, J. P. (Jess):
Mekong Delta
promotion
training
Training:
dropout rates
Green Team
Hell Week
UDT Class
Sea Lion
mission
SEAL Team Two
Trani, Rick
Trujillo, Rafael
UDT Replacement Training
See
Buds
UDT Replacement Training Class
Underwater Demolition Team 21 (UDT-21)
Underwater Demolition Team 22 (UDT-22)
Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs):
equipment
escape procedures
rules of engagement
training
weapons
U Minh Forest
“Victor Charlie,”
Vieques Island
Vietcong:
ambush attempts
elusiveness
prisoners
“recruitment,”
weapons
See also
Ambush missions; Reconnaissance missions
Vietnamese River Assault Group
Vietnam Veterans War Memorial
Vietnam War:
Chain of command
draft dodging
friendly fire
U.S. involvement
Vinh Long River
Vinh Long Secret Zone
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Virgin Islands, U.S.
Waddell, Bernie
Watkins, James
Watson, Jim
Weiss,
U.S.S.
West, Bing
Westmoreland, William
Weyers, Maynard
XM-148 grenade launcher
Yocum, Gerry
Zulu time
Zumwalt, Elmo
About the Author
Captain Robert A. Gormly, USN (Ret.)
, served twenty-nine years as a Navy SEAL. His awards include the Silver Star, three Legions of Merit, three Bronze Stars (two in combat), the Defense Meritorious Medal, and a Purple Heart.

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