Much of their work is covert. That means, unlike what you see in most movies, they DON'T go in with their guns blazing. In fact, they use stealth, slipping into a location unnoticed. Rather than being individual Rambo-types, they must learn to work as a team, using their knowledge of each individual s strengths and weaknesses to make their team perform at top efficiency. They rely on each other to be better as a team of seven men than they could ever be as seven individuals.
Most SEALs are alpha males.
They are take charge types who prefer to take action. They re also usually incredibly intelligent and top scholars. Men who make it through BUDS and become active duty SEALs are usually intensely motivated and highly driven. So I took that basic information and applied my number one rule of creating romantic heroes. I believe that in order to create truly wonderful, compelling romantic heroes, I have to set up a situation in which that character will really suffer.