22 episodes are in season 1 of seal team.
how many episodes are in season 1 of seal team?
22
in the mid-1950s, the navy saw how the udt's mission had expanded to a broad range of "unconventional warfare", but also that this clashed with the udt's traditional focus on swimming and diving operations. it was therefore decided to create a new type of unit that would build on the udt's elite qualities and water-borne expertise, but would add land combat skills, including parachute training and guerrilla/counterinsurgency operations. these new teams would come to be known as the us navy seals, an acronym for sea, air, and land. initially there was a lag in the unit's creation until president john f. kennedy took office. kennedy recognized the need for unconventional warfare, and supported the use of special operations forces against guerrilla activity. the navy moved forward to establish its new special operations force and in january 1962 commissioned seal team one in nab coronado and seal team two at nab little creek. udt-11 & 12 were still active on the west coast and udt-21 & 22 on the east coast. the seals quickly earned a reputation for valor and stealth in vietnam, where they conducted clandestine raids in perilous territory. in may 1983, the remaining udt teams were reorganized as seal teams. udt 11 became seal team five and udt 12 became seal delivery vehicle team one. udt 21 became seal team four and udt 22 became seal delivery vehicle team two. a new team, seal team three was established in october 1983. since then, teams of seals have taken on clandestine missions in war-torn regions around the world, tracking high-profile targets such as panama's manuel noriega and colombian drug lord pablo escobar, and playing integral roles in the wars in iraq and afghanistan.
underwater demolition team
marcinko was the first commanding officer of this new unit. at the time there were only two seal teams, seal team one and seal team two. marcinko named the unit seal team six in order to confuse soviet intelligence as to the number of actual seal teams in existence. the unit's plankowners (founding members) were interviewed and hand-picked by marcinko from throughout the udt/seal community. seal team six was formally commissioned in november 1980, and an intense, progressive work-up training program made the unit mission-ready just six months later. seal team six became the u.s. navy's premier hostage rescue and counter-terrorist unit. it has been compared to the u.s. army's elite delta force. marcinko held the command of seal team six for three years, from 1980 to july 1983, instead of the typical two-year command in the navy at the time. seal team six started with 75 shooters. according to marcinko, the annual ammunition training allowance for the command was larger than that of the entire u.s. marine corps. the unit has virtually unlimited resources at its disposal. in 1984, marcinko and a dozen members of seal team six would go on to form "red cell", (also known as op-06d), a special unit designed to test the security of american military installations.
seal team six