SEAL Tales: That Time We Took On the Navy’s Hunter-Killer Dolphins
It’s 1980. My UDT is tasked with a training op to assault a docked vessel from the open ocean. The trick? It’s guarded by Navy dolphins.
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Colonel Robert Adams, MD is a US Naval Academy graduate who served thirty-six years in the Navy and Army as a Navy SEAL (12 years), the DELTA Force Command Surgeon, and an Army family medicine physician (with obstetrics). Wake Forest Medical School, then an Army residency at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Washington was followed by service with the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq and at Fort Bragg, NC. After the military he built a thriving private practice in North Carolina where he won numerous awards for clinical excellence and practiced for 13 more years, transitioning to part-time family medicine in 2020. Explore the fascinating world of this most unique warrior/healer. Be sure to click on the following links https://swordsandseals.com/ to discover his three captivating books and start reading today: Six Days of Impossible Navy SEAL Hell Week - a Doctor Looks Back, Swords and Saints, A Doctor's Journey and My Dear Sara Civil War Letters 1861-1865.
It’s 1980. My UDT is tasked with a training op to assault a docked vessel from the open ocean. The trick? It’s guarded by Navy dolphins.
Through my father’s final moments, I learned profound lessons about life, death, and the enduring power of love, which have shaped my medical practice and understanding of the soul.
We launched for war in the dead of night, rucks strapped tight and nerves tighter—only to turn around midair and win a battle no one would ever hear about.
Winning is a conscious decision…it comes to those who have experienced failure, yet chosen to persevere.
Meet Dr. Robert Adams. He attacked medical school at age 36 after spending years in the SEAL Teams. Seeing a physician with a Trident, the Army snatched him up and he spent the next several years taking care of DELTA operators all over the world.
Strap in for a first hand look at Navy SEAL Hell Week with Colonel Bob Adams who finished UDT/SEAL training as class leader of BUD/S Class 81.
If you think being a Navy SEAL is tough, try cutting into one human being and successfully removing another without doing harm to either one.
A Vietnam War veteran with severe PTSD becomes the unlikely fishing buddy to a doctor who helps him realize his hidden pain and eventually guides him down the path needed to reclaim his life.
Navy SEAL Commander turned Delta Force Command Surgeon Dr. Bob Adams explains how he “crabbed” his way into the medical residency of his choice.
The widow of a Navy SEAL is, after his death, awarded over $200,000 and monthly
Former Navy SEAL, Dr. Robert Adams, talks about his time as a Delta Force Command Surgeon and what makes special operators “special”.
Former Navy SEAL and later Chief Surgeon for Delta Force, Bob Adams tells us that mistakes can teach us many things, including not repeating them.