One would think that someone would have kept in touch with this Majied guy and would have known about his name change after VN.
I think either you or Travis also pointed out on the other thred that of the 260 SEALS, only a handful were African American because of Navy policies back in the day. You would think that he would be easily identifiable, because of his race and because of claims he was in VN for five years.
The other thing that strikes me as odd is that if Majied was elite enough to be a SEAL (and presumably one of the first blacks on the SEAL team), he should be extremely proud of his service and more than willing to give his Class number and other information about his service.
I am sure the folks at Authentiseal would be more than happy to respect his privacy as far as the name change goes if he would just release his name. But he won't because more likely than not, he never was a SEAL.
I have to correct that part. From the late 50s on, at least, blacks could and did enter any Navy program they were qualified for. Something about spending hours a week swimming at night in freezing cold shark infested waters did not seem to attract many blacks then, or now. It was not "navy policy" to keep them out. There were and are outstanding Navy UDT frogmen and SEALs going way back. Outstanding.