Navy SEALs Facts People Don’t Know About

SEAL Team 6 Started With Fraud

Commander (ret.) Richard Marcinko was the founder of SEAL Team 6. He named it so in order to confuse the Russians into thinking there were six teams, because at the time there was only Team One, Two and Six.

SEAL Team 6 Started With Fraud

But in order to fund the construction of the unit, some “unorthodox” methods were used that ended up getting Marcinko deep-sixed to military prison for defrauding the government. Still he did it for the greater good, and that can be seen in the missions that Six has undertaken, most without the American public ever knowing a thing.