Navy SEALs live by an unspoken code.<\/p>\n
“Be a quiet professional,” says Chris Heben, a former SEAL with 10 years of experience carrying out missions in Africa, the Middle East and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
“There is no room for braggarts in the SEALs,” he said. “Talking hurts missions and gets people killed.”<\/p>\n
Members of the special team sent to kill Osama bin Laden in Pakistan on Sunday may never talk about their role in the raid that ended a decade-long manhunt.<\/p>\n
But there’s no doubt an allegiance to secrecy played a critical role in maintaining the surprise factor necessary for success in the high-stakes gamble that was closely held even among officials in Washington.<\/p>\n
Former SEALs interviewed by CNN were cautious about describing how Team Six or other special teams within the SEALs work. Generally, SEALs chosen for such a special mission would be tapped by superiors because of a skill that sets them apart, yet they must also be able to jump into another member’s job should that man be hurt or killed, they said.<\/p>\n
“They need to go far beyond just being a skilled warrior,” said Brandon Tyler Webb, a former SEAL who ran the sniper program at the Navy Special Warfare Command and was part of combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
“Getting on a special team means you’ve established yourself as a mature and steady operator with a real world track record of high-stakes, sensitive missions,” said Webb, who authored the book “The 21st Century Sniper.”<\/p>\n
“The guys behind this mission [to capture or kill bin Laden] have never given anyone a reason to doubt that they are trustworthy and very focused,” he said. “They are the best of the best.”<\/p>\n
The image of the SEAL belly crawling his way through the jungle is just a bunch of Hollywood nonsense, Heben said.<\/p>\n
“The guys who don’t make it through SEAL training are the Rambo wannabes,” he said. “If you cannot work in a team format, but also function autonomously, you won’t last for very long.”<\/p>\n
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