SEALs
First SEALs detachment were
deployed to Vietnam in 1966. Both SEAL SEALs in Vietnam were the
Navy's counterinsurgency and special warfere experts. Team ONe and
Two would see service in VIetnam. Each SEAL Team consisted of little
under 200 men with the primary tactical unit being a three man fire
element. The teams were normaly inserted by boats and then walk or
swim to the mission area. First they mostly used the "MIke" boats,
later in the war "Boston Whalers" fiberglass very shallow boats were
used primary for insertion. Many other boats were also used even
civilan, fishingbouts and the (IBS) Inflatable Boat, Small). However
the SEALs were also inserted by submarines, helicopters, or
parachute from planes, in some cases dove directly into the water.
One of the first missions
assigned to the SEALs was setting up observation and listening posts
along suspected VC infiltration routes on the waterways and trails
crisscrossing the Mekong Delta. Some observation teams staying in
place for more then a week at a time. After identifying routes and
bases SEALs mounted raids to ambush the VC and destroy their bases.
After these missions proved immediately successful theire numbers
and missions was extended.
OP: Iron Hammer
In this scenario a three man team
with support of two in the IBS is inserted for a hunter-killer
mission. |