United States Navy SEALs
| United States Navy SEALs | |
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Special Warfare insignia known as the "SEAL Trident" | |
| Active | January 1, 1962 – present (63 years, 5 months) |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Navy |
| Type | Special operations force |
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| Part of | |
| Garrison/HQ | Naval Amphibious Base Coronado Joint Expeditionary Base–Little Creek |
| Nickname(s) | "Frogmen", "The Teams", "Team Guys", "The Men with Green Faces" |
| Motto(s) | "The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday" "It Pays To Be A Winner". "Never Out Of The Fight". |
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The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the United States Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the United States Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments. SEALs are typically ordered to capture or kill high-level targets, or to gather intelligence behind enemy lines. SEAL team personnel are hand-selected, highly trained, and highly proficient in unconventional warfare (UW), direct action (DA), and special reconnaissance (SR), among other tasks like sabotage, demolition, intelligence gathering, and hydrographic reconnaissance, training, and advising friendly militaries or other forces. All active SEALs are members of the U.S. Navy.