Posted on Feb 4, 2020
5 Key Differences Between Delta Force and SEAL Team 6
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One of the most prominent differences is right in the lead paragraphs. They spoke to former SEAL blah blah and a Delta operator who declined to be identified lol
CPT Lawrence Cable
All the time I was around Infantry and Combat Arms units, I only met one guy that I know for certain was Delta, and he had been retired for a number of years when that occurred. We had gotten into a discussion about Mogadishu/Black Hawk Down incident and I commented that he knew a lot more details than he you could get from the book. I already knew he was a Tabbed SF soldier, so he admitted that he had served with Delta during that time also.
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They're both Varsity teams. Delta seems to keep a tighter lid as "Quiet Professionals". Never served with any Army Spec Ops, but spent time with both Seals and Force Recon Dets that made up Direct Action Platoon with the MEU. SEALS were less boisterous, and seemed calmly methodical in all actions. Force bubbas liked to slug it out afloat or ashore. Force did a FAST rope to our deck and the Plt Cmdr didn't have his gloves. Went bare and his hands were a wreck after. Good training I guess. Was in PI between coup attempts with a WestPac MEU (Provisional 4th Marines, long before 31st stood up), and our staging area was right on the Subic Bay. There was a fenced in compound with a sat shot on the roof, lots of flippers and Draegers hanging out to dry. They all had long hair and beards, so I asked one what they were about. He just said Spec Warfare, so maybe SEALS, maybe Delta. They often got wet at night for who knows what, usually around dark. Fun times with black little birds without tail markers etc. Magsaysay Street was lively too. Pic is P.I. compound Feb 1990.
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