This is Jockel podcast number 298 with Echo Charles and me Jockel Willink. Good evening echo. Good evening

Within weeks of their arrival the seals of debt gulf were shaking off their initial jitters and even displaying some measure of proficiency

Science of this were apparent in every aspect of their operations on ambush

No one clear to throat coughed spit sneezed or even sniffled

on insert neck strapped the men stepped heel to toe to reduce the sucking explosion of mud walking and

Above all avoided the footprints of the man in front to keep from sinking even deeper

To improve their infield support the seals befriended the pilots and crews of the Navy's helicopter squadron at

Nau Bay and overhauled the seals denuded landing craft into an uparmored iron clad

Six heavy machine guns mounted to the gun will gunnels a

60 millimeter mortar bolted to the rust of deck plate and a bunker-busting

Recoralist rifle pinion to the top of the sandbag pilot house

It was so much armament that the men quickly

Recommissioned the LCM the mighty Mo

To it they added a canopy to block the sun and rain a two-burner stove for meals

Then draped hammocks between everything that didn't pivot or fire essentially turned it into a houseboat littered with empty hot sauce bottles

Coffee cups closed lines all aids to reduce the number of trips back to Nau Bay and

Increase the amount of time they could spend in a mission area

To improve the quality of their encounters with the enemy they

Experimented with a variety of tactics false insertions that made the vehicle think the seals landed where they hadn't false

Extractions that made the vehicle think the seals had left and probably most important squad-sized missions that half the seals punch

But correspondingly increase their stealth and the amount of swamp land they could cover thus doubling their chances of

Viet Cong contact

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