With the passing away of SEAL Team-Six founder Commander Richard Marcinko in Christmas day, we’ve noticed a spark in reader interest in the interviews SOFREP did with him in 2017.  This is part one of a nine-part series of interviews with “Demo Dick” as he was called.  In this first segment, we learn that Dick wanted to join the Underwater Demolition Teams because of a movie he saw about the Navy’s “fin-footed, goggled-eyed, beach blasting heroes” in 1951 called, “The Frogmen” with actor Richard Widmark.

 

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