A history lesson on how the Navy SEALs came to be, started back in World War Two. The navy considers the Scouts and Raiders to be the direct-and earliest-frontrunners of today's SEALs. But despite the original intention, the Scouts and Raiders did not become broad-based commandos like the SEALs. In most of their operations, they were limited to direct support of the amphibious force, guiding marine and army units ashore. Later a few of them served with guerrilla units behind enemy lines in China, and many were blended in with the Underwater Demolition Te

ams involved in the campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific. One of the first missions to bring fame to the Scouts and Raiders started out with seventeen sailors boarded a small, wooden-hulled boat and headed up the Wadi Sebou, a stream that went through Port Lutey (now Kenitra, Morocco). Their task was to cut the cables anchoring a boom and antishipping net stretched across the river directly under the machine guns and cannons in a fort overlooking the river. With the way cleared, American warships would be able to fight their way up the river and protect soldiers moving in to seize the city's military airfield.

They visited the potential invasion beaches and sketched out formidable defenses in which steel posts were driven deep into the sand, connected with barbed wire, and reinforced by mortar and machine-gun emplacements. To further strengthen the defenses, the posts were topped by platter -shaped teller mines that would go off on contact.

The UDT men or Underwater Demolition Teams were very new to the fleet. They were used to measure the reef of the shore of the beaches for amphibious landings by the Marines. They also were very important for destroying the obstacles in the ocean, set to stop the amphibious forces from getting to shore. The supply officers puzzled over the strange orders they received from the UDTs, whose role in the nivasion was a closely guarded secret. They demanded miles of fishing line. Then they wanted milk cans welded end to end to serve as reels for the line. The most oddest request of all was all the condoms that they could get.

Although men of the Underwater Demolition Teams later prided themselves on their nickname of the Naked Warriors, the trainees at Fort Pierce were anything but naked. They did their work dressed in soggy fatigues, with heavy boondocker shoes on their feet and awkward metal helmets on their heads. Much of their training was done at night.

The trainees at Fort Pierce spent much of their time in rubber boats and in the mud, and they ran miles every day. But surprisingly, little attention was paid to swimming. The assumption was that they would paddle ashore as part of an amphibious operation and do their demolition work in relatively shallow water while army demolition experts took over at the high-water mark.

During World War II the UDT man was kind of naked warrior, wearing practically nothing except a jock strap, swimming trunks, sometimes sneakers, and a face mask. The only thing he had to protect himself with was a diving knife. They usually never

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