The Navy s UDT s were re-named SEAL teams. SEAL Team Two to the Atlantic. They conducted unconventional, counter-guerrilla or clandestine warfare and contributed significantly during the Vietnam conflict. Today the nature of war has changed. Chemical, biological and nuclear terrorism are very realistic threats.
Radical groups use hostages to negotiate for money, weapons and release of political prisoners.
SEAL training is specially designed to be the toughest in the world. It challenges each individual mentally and physically. Here future SEALs are assigned to smaller groups or Teams , then tested beyond most human physical endurance on land and in the water. Instructors order trainees to carry rubber rafts over their heads while they jog for miles, run a gauntlet of tough obstacle courses and sit for hours in the frigid surf. They are verbally battered and allowed only four hours sleep in five and half days.