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The Navy handed him a blank check: build a team that can hit anyone, anywhere, with no warning. He named it SEAL Team Six so the Soviets would think we already had Teams 3, 4, and 5. After that they told him to test America’s own bases.
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| September 19, 2026
| Never Forget Dailey @teamreal321
Posted on 09/19/2026 10:35:09 AM PDT by ransomnote
Never Forget Dailey
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The NVA put a price on his head.
He never cashed it in for them.
Richard “Demo Dick” Marcinko didn’t just fight in the Mekong. He owned it. Ilo Ilo Island, 1967 — most successful SEAL raid in the Delta. Six enemy boats blown to splinters. A body count the Viet Cong didn’t forget. They offered 50,000 piasters to whoever brought him in. Nobody collected.
That same man started as a 17-year-old high-school dropout the Marines already rejected.
68 years ago today — September 19, 1958 — he walked into a Navy recruiter and signed up as a radioman. Coal-town kid from Lansford, Pennsylvania. Nobody’s first pick.
He didn’t stay a radioman.
Frogman. SEAL Team Two. Two tours. Silver Star. Four Bronze Stars with V. Then the Navy handed him a blank check: build a team that can hit anyone, anywhere, with no warning. He named it SEAL Team Six so the Soviets would think we already had Teams 3, 4, and 5.
After that they told him to test America’s own bases. He built Red Cell and started breaking in. They hated him for it. That’s how you know it worked.
He wrote it all down. He died Christmas Day 2021. The unit he stood up went to Abbottabad.
Today isn’t a raid anniversary.
It’s the day a rejected kid signed the paper that changed special operations forever.
Demo Dick didn’t ask permission.
He just enlisted.
#NavySEAL #ThisDayInHistory #RogueWarrior #SEALTeamSix
September 19, 2026
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Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.)
To: ransomnote
“Rogue Warrior,” published on Mar 1, 1992. In 1993 a Navy Seal told me that Seals had Osama bin Laden in their gun sites three times. That’s when I knew Clinton was corrupt and all supporters of Clinton are evil. Proof: Clinton and his supporters approve of abortion.
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Falconspeed
("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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