Originally Posted by
ramblingboy42
I don't really know how high to rate the seals, but during a special forces exercise a few years my section was guarding a "high interest political prisoner" and the seals were attempting to snatch him from us.
My section, half composed of "green" soldiers...ie limited experienced , brassed up their reconnaisance several times and the exercise commander called me up on the radio and asked me to relax my defences.
We were doing what any good infantry section would do in the circumstances, ie. patrolling and maintaining the security of our hide.
The commander insisted so I pulled back my men , went and sat in the unlocked CWA tearoom where we housed and kept the "prisoner" and played 500 and just let the famous seals storm the tearooms making heaps of noise and screaming at us. We tried to keep playing 500 but that ****ed them off and they tried to rough us up then.
They were so noisy when we had our defences up it was dead easy to see them and intercept them.
Australian soldiers in the same situation would be lucky to be seen or heard.
Thats just my point of view and a personal obvservation of seals.
