UNITED STATES NAVAL SPECIAL OPERATIONS

UNITED STATES NAVAL

SPECIALOPERATIONS

What makes up Spec Ops?

• SEALs- Sea, Air, Land

• EOD- Explosive Ordnance Disposal

• SBU- Special Boat Units

• Divers

Explosive Ordnance Disposal

HISTORY

• Originated during WWII

•U.S. Naval Mine Disposal School May 1941

•Bomb Disposal School January 1942

•EOD created in 1953

INSIGNIA

•Wreath- symbolic of achievements by minimizing accident potentials

•Bomb- represents historic and major objective of EOD, three fins represent nuclear, conventional, chemical\biological warfare

•Lightning Bolts- potential destructive power of the bomb

•Shield- represents mission of protecting personnel and property

The job of Navy EOD is to detect, recover, identify, evaluate, render safe and dispose of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) that constitutes a threat to people, material, installations, ships, aircraft and operations. As the only naval force trained for such an expansive mission, Navy EOD technicians must deal with all types of explosive ordnance as well as weapon delivery systems containing explosives and propellants.

MISSION

MEANS•Use of ships and submersibles play a key role in the detection and destruction of sea mines.

•EOD not only looks for unexploded ordinance that may pose a threat, but also disposes of unused, aging ordinance in the fleet that poses a threat due to its instability.

Navy Divers

Naval Diving Classifications

• S.C.U.B.A.• Diver Second Class• Diver First Class• Master Diver• Saturation Diver• Medical Deep Sea Diving Technician (DMT)• Explosive Ordinance Disposal Diver (EOD)

Naval Diving Classifications

• Amphibious Reconnaissance Corpsman

• *Naval Diving Officer

• *Salvage Diving Officer

• *Medical Diving Officer

Missions• Salvage

• EOD

• Underwater Survey

• Underwater Search/Recovery

U.S. NAVAL SPECIAL BOAT UNITS

MISSIONS• To employ, operate, and maintain a variety

of surface combat craft.• To conduct and support Naval and Joint

SPECIAL OPERATIONS.• To operate in, on, and around coastal and

riverine areas.• To complete water patrol and water to land

interdiction.

CAPABILITIES• Infiltrating and exfiltrating forces

• Provide small caliber gun fire to protect themselves and SEALs on shore.

• Provide maritime lines of communication.

• Deception operations

• Search and rescue operations.

• Armed escort.

S.B.U.s• Organized trained and equipped to

operate in special operations craft.

• Possess the ability to transform SEAL deployment from open ocean to beach landing.

SEa Air Land

SEALs• UDT= blueprint

• Created 1961 by JFK

• Operational in 1962

• Vietnam

Missions• Direct Action

• Special Reconnaissance

• Unconventional Warfare

• Foreign Internal Defense

• Counterterrorist Operations

Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL

• 26 weeks• 1st Phase- Basic

Conditioning• 2nd Phase- Diving• 3rd Phase- Land

Warfare• “BUD/S is just a big

kick in the n#ts.”- BUD/S Instructor.

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