Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:41 pm Post subject: Navy SEAL paid ultimate price
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The Sailor is MIKE MONSOOR, a REAL HERO!
Navy Petty Officer, PO2
(Petty Officer, Second Class) EOD2
(Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Second Class)
April 5th, 1981 ~ September 29th, 2009
Mike Monsoor was Awarded "The Congressional Medal Of Honor" for giving his Life in Iraq.
He Jumped on a Live Hand Grenade and covered it with His Body, Saving the Lives Of A Large Group Of Navy Seals That Was Passing By!
During Mike Monsoor's Funeral at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego, California, the 6 Pallbearers removed the Rosewood Casket from the hearse.
Lined up on each side of Mike's Casket were his family, friends, fellow Sailors and well-wishers.
The Column of People Continued from the hearse all the way to the grave site.
What they didnt know at the time was that every Navy Seal - 45 To Be Exact - that Mike saved that day was scattered throughout the Column!
As the Pallbearers carried the Casket down the Column of people to the graveside, the Column followed behind.
Every time the casket passed a Navy Seal, he would remove his Gold Trident Pin from his Uniform,
and slap it down hard, embedding the Gold Trident Pin into the top of the wooden Casket!
Then the Navy Seal would step back from the Column and salute!
This Was A Fitting End To An Eternal Send-Off For A Warrior Hero!
This Should Be Front-Page News!
I Am Proud Of All The Branches Of Our Military..
Trident Pin
After one completes the 3 week Basic Navy Seals Program, it is followed by Seal qualification training, which is 15 more weeks of training,
necessary to continue improving Basic Skills and to learn new Tactics and Techniques, required for an assignment to a Navy Seal Platoon.
After successful completion, trainees are given their Naval Enlisted Code, and awarded the Navy Seal Trident Pin.
With this Gold Pin they are now Officially Navy Seals!
It was said that you could hear each of the 45 Slaps from across the cemetery!
By the time the Rosewood Casket reached the grave site, it looked as though it had a gold inlay from the 45 Trident Pins that lined the top!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 2:43 pm Post subject: United States Navy SEALs
United States Navy SEALs
The U.S. Navy's SEa, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams (commonly known as the Navy SEALs), along with Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC), compose the Special Operations Forces of the United States Navy, who are employed in direct action and special reconnaissance operations. SEALs are also capable of undertaking unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and other missions.
Today's Naval Special Warfare operators can trace their origins to the Scouts and Raiders, Naval Combat Demolition Units, Office of Strategic Services Operational Swimmers, Underwater Demolition Teams, and Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons of World War II. While none of those early organizations have survived to present, their pioneering efforts in unconventional warfare are mirrored in the missions and professionalism of the present Naval Special Warfare warriors. The origins of the Navy SEALs go back to World War II when the United States Navy saw that in order for its troops to successfully land on beaches it needed soldiers to reconnoitre the landing beaches, take note of obstacles and defenses, and ultimately guide the landing forces in. As a result the Amphibious Scout and Raider School was established in 1942 by joint- Army and Navy at Fort Pierce, Florida. It was intended to train explosive ordnance disposal personnel and experienced combat swimmers from the Army and Marine Corps, becoming the Naval Combat Demolition Unit, or NCDU.
They were trained by The NCDU was first employed in Operation Torch during the invasion of North Africa in 1942. This unit became the 'first group' specialized in amphibious raids and tactics in the United States Navy.
By 1943 had expanded the Amphibious Scout and Raider School syllabus to include underwater demolition. Following the near-disaster of the landing force on Tarawa in November 1943, when offshore coral reefs and other obstacles in the surf resulted in many of the Marines drowning, Rear Admiral Richmond K. Turner directed the formation of nine Underwater Demolition Teams mostly composed of navy personnel from the Naval Construction Battalions (Seabees). These volunteers were organized into special teams and were tasked with reconnoitering and clearing beach obstacles for troops going ashore during amphibious landings, and evolved into Combat Swimmer Reconnaissance Units, becoming the Navy UDTs.
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 3:22 pm Post subject: Honor the fallen heroes - like MIKE MONSOOR
Navy SEAL paid ultimate price to save buddies
CNN didnt tell it all.
Above is ... the rest of the story
April 9, 2008
When a grenade bounced off his chest and fell to the floor near his fellow troops, Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor acted out of instinct.
His actions didn't stem from a lack of training. His instant reaction was to protect his comrades.
The Navy says he committed a selfless act: jumping on the grenade and taking the full force of the blast.
President Bush presented Monsoor's parents with a posthumous Medal of Honor for their son at an emotional White House ceremony on Tuesday. Video Watch Monsoor's sister share her memories »
Bush quoted one of the SEALS saved by Monsoor as saying, "Mikey looked death in the face that day and said, 'You cannot take my brothers. I will go in their stead.'" Video Watch the president bestow the award »
Monsoor was one of the U.S. military's most highly trained combatants, a Navy SEAL. He's the first SEAL to receive the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq.
On September 29, 2006, Monsoor was part of a major clearing and isolating operation to root out enemy fighters holding parts of Ramadi, the Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad.
Monsoor was in a sniper position on a rooftop along with two other SEALs when a grenade flew into his location from out of nowhere. It bounced off his chest and landed in an area where it probably would have killed or seriously wounded all three of them.
Monsoor was in a position to escape before the explosion but instead leapt on the grenade.
"He recognized immediately the threat, yelled 'grenade' and due to the fact that two other SEAL snipers, our brothers, could not possibly escape the blast, he chose to smother it with his body, absorbed the impact and lost his life in the process," said Lt. Cmdr. Seth Stone, Mansoor's platoon commander.
The blast did not kill him right away; he hung on for 30 minutes. His two comrades were wounded but survived the shrapnel that ripped through their bodies.
Stone said: "He essentially saved [the] Navy SEALS on the rooftop and three Iraqi soldiers who were there."
Until this month, when the White House announced that Monsoor would receive the Medal of Honor posthumously, few people knew of his story.
Born in 1981 in Long Beach, California, Monsoor excelled as a high school athlete. He joined the Navy before the September 11 attacks.
In 2004, Monsoor graduated from the basic SEAL training course as one of the top members of his class. By March 2005, he had completed his training and was assigned to SEAL Team 3, Delta Platoon.
In April 2006, that unit deployed to Iraq's troubled and violent western provincial capital of Ramadi. Monsoor would not return home alive.
His five-month stay in Ramadi was marked by constant attacks. As a heavy machine gunner, Monsoor had to stay behind the point man on foot patrols and protect the unit from attacks.
Delta Platoon was involved in attacks on 75 percent of its missions in a highly contested part of Ramadi called the Ma'laab district, according to the Navy.
On a patrol less than a month after arriving in Iraq, Monsoor showed some of his selfless instinct when gunfire hit a fellow SEAL in the leg.
Monsoor "ran out into the street with another SEAL, shot cover fire and dragged his comrade to safety while enemy bullets kicked up the concrete at their feet," according to Navy documents.
He received the Silver Star, the third highest award for valor in combat.
His unit continued to endure the constant barrage of attacks and some 35 firefights with insurgent forces over the scorching Iraqi summer.
Monsoor also was saddled with carrying heavy radio equipment on his back as the "SEAL communicator" who called in tank and other support during firefights.
He received the Bronze Star for his work as an adviser for Iraqi troops.
Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:10 am Post subject: Navy SEALs and U. S. Special Forces
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Navy SEALs and U. S. Special Forces
Our Special Forces pay some very high prices.
3 SEALs caught a murdering terrorist who had been capturing and butchering our troops.
In the capture the terrorist got a bloody lip.
This demon-possessed basturd usurper in the whitehouse is having them court-martialed!
THESE 3 ARE HEROES!
They showed restraint!
PLEASE PRAY for a miracle that JUSTICE would prevail.
AMERICA! THESE MEN SACRIFICE MUCH FOR YOU!
PRAY FOR THEM TWICE a DAY!
March 21, 2010 a SEAL was killed in Afganistan today.
PLEASE PRAY FOR HIS FAMILY.
PRAYER for all military, click here
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