![]() ![]() I am of the opinion that this type of exposure hurts our future mission capabilities, gives way too much info to enemies and is “over the top” in a way that is hard for me to articulate. There is a lot of tension over this movie and recent press about DEVGRU. In any event, the SEAL community as whole views this movie as a breach in our security because it shows way too many tactics, comms gear, weapons systems, etc and glorifies the job in a Hollywood-way. Both organizations vying for positions and power (funding) within the Spec Ops structure. Also, there are internal US Special Operations politics between the Army and Naval Special Warfare. That is the main goal of this movie-increase recruitment and excitement. It is true that we cannot find enough young men to qualify and pass the training and the standards will never be lowered, so the push has been to broaden the recruiting through media. Inability to grow the size of the SEAL teams. That mix of fiction and realism is just what the filmmakers bet on to draw audiences to “Act of Valor”. The above-mentioned sequence is indeed from a movie: the new release “Act of Valor.” But the SEALs are real-life active-duty operators (the babes and the bad guy are actors), and the episode is an authentic training maneuver, although the yacht was provided by the film’s producers. ![]()
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