“My experience with SEALs was mixed...” I’m with you and I’ll leave it at that. I have a couple of good friends who are former SEALs and they epitomize the “quiet professionals” theme, but I know the guys in a certain Tier 1 Army unit consider SEALs “The Hollywood version of special operations” or some variation on that theme.
The old joke about how does a SEAL op order differ from a delta op order?
The SEAL mission order also addresses book and movie rights.