Bill Salisbury, an attorney in San Diego and a former Navy SEAL officer, accused Ventura of pretending to be a SEAL and wrote that Ventura would be blurring an important distinction by claiming to be a SEAL when he was actually a frogman with the UDT. Compared to SEAL teams, UDTs saw less combat and took fewer casualties.[6][7][8] Following that, Governor Venturas office confirmed that Ventura was never a member of the SEALs. His spokesman stated that Ventura has never tried to convince people otherwise.[6] Ventura stated: Today we refer to all of us as SEALs; thats all it is.[8]
Jackass Ventura was Never Ever a Navy Seal.
It’s SEAL, because those letters mean something.
A neighbor of mine was UDT in the 60s. He was always very careful in telling people he was a frogman and not a SEAL.