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The Dick Marcinko Interviews Part 3

Dick Marcinko, the founder of SEAL Team 6 sat down with Brandon Webb in 2017 for a one-on-one interview. In Part 3, Dick talks about the mission profile of Navy SEALs in Vietnam including the use of local water craft to blend into the riverine environment they were operating in near the Laotian border in 1968.  Then his team’s jarring experience of being jungle fighters suddenly cast into an urban battlefield fighting street to street and house to house during the Tet Offensive.

 

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Dick Marcinko, the founder of SEAL Team 6 sat down with Brandon Webb in 2017 for a one-on-one interview. In Part 3, Dick talks about the mission profile of Navy SEALs in Vietnam including the use of local water craft to blend into the riverine environment they were operating in near the Laotian border in 1968.  Then his team’s jarring experience of being jungle fighters suddenly cast into an urban battlefield fighting street to street and house to house during the Tet Offensive.

 

 

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Sean Spoonts is a former Navy Anti-submarine Warfare Operator and Search and Rescue Aircrewman in SH-2f LAMPS II Sea Sprite. Graduate of Naval Aircrewman Candidate School Pensacola, AW "A" School NATTC Millington, HS-1 SAR School NAS Jacksonville, FASOTRAGRUDET SERE NAS Brunswick. Duty with HSL-30, NAS Norfolk and HSL-36, NAF Mayport.

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