As the sailors who insert and extract Navy SEALs from classified locations around the world, the Special Warfare ...

Often inspired by real-life events, the genre has frequently paid tribute to the most elite specialists that the military has ...

But according to former Navy SEAL commander Jocko Willink ... the most highly decorated US special operations unit of the Iraq War. Achieving that success did not come from blind obedience ...

Shawn Ryan served as a Navy SEAL for almost six years ... and the reasons he chose to leave the special-operations unit. After leaving the military, Ryan began abusing drugs, chasing the ...

Kerrey decided he wanted to join the Navy SEALs, then a nascent special operations force. He soon found himself in Vietnam as one of two officers leading 12 enlisted sailors in SEAL Team 1.

The scarring in Navy SEAL Ryan Larkin's brain was not caused by large blasts from roadside bombs. Rather, he was wounded by repeated, low-level, blast pressure from his own weapons.

Willink was the head of US Navy SEAL Team 3 Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated US special operations unit of the Iraq War, and Babin was one of the two platoon leaders who reported to him.