Some snarky elitism in the piece.
I served in a Marine Recon unit [not Force] and trained joint ops with SEALs. They're not all that, esp considering all the funding they get for training. In the water or litoral ops - nothing is better. But on dry land I'd rather have Rangers or Recon.
You are correct! As a thirty year member of Army SF, I worked with and trained the SEALS. In Afghanistan they were crying to get out of the wire and do something, anything. Well the few times I saw them get out they were a soup-sandwich, the commanders know this and are reluctant to task them, BUT, military politics comes into play and the high ranking Navy brass gets them tasked. They are trained for Oceanic environments and surprise raids along coastlines, not navigating Afghan mountains, as was witnessed when a SEAL team was whacked last year doing a recon above Assadabad. Then the rescue party was shot down in a CH-47. If the SEALS are being misused it is probably of their own volition. WAH-WAH-WAH