with respect to the question and being about SEALS. I was a hard hat diver and personally know three of us as airline pilots. Also I want to ask about the corpsman comment. I know teams from Hawaii, and while operating in Korea and the PI.
The two corpsman I knew regarding this conversation, they were both Dive Med Techs. One was with SDV's and wore cammies but wore his Med tech dive pin.
What is the real progression for them, I never was concerned then.
I heard there is one at Delta.
this one is just for the frogs out there to laugh about. We had a corpsman/frog turn up at Polaris point Guam as our new dive corpsman. He wore the Trident and had all the geedunk from survival training and knew all about BUDS, etc.
Well one day in Guam the Sam Houston pulled in and my Med tech buddy with the SDV team says, " Hey I know that guy, he dropped out of BUDS back whenever, he's not a frog."
Turns out he dropped out of BUDS, rang the bell. Rigged his service record to show that he was NEC 8*** whatever and then had an assignment at 29 Palms with some Marine battalion, then was assigned to us. this true med tech questioned him, the bogus guy had just put on E6. The busted him down to E4 took away his Med tech NEC and fake Frog NEC.
crazy
please remember TWA in Lebonan. PO2 Stethem, Hoo ya Deep sea.