Hello and welcome back to Epox as the last few episodes I've been talking about special forces

raids and operations. I thought I should continue that at least for one more week, maybe going

forward more in the future. This time I thought I would talk about US special forces. You're

talk about the Navy Seals in Vietnam, the so-called backwater war in 1967 in Vietnam.

And again, I'll be doing quite a lot of reading this week, interrupting myself, giving

a bit more detail here or there.

So this is an account of specifically 1967, so relatively early on in the whole process.

But it was when the fighting was arguably at its height, certainly

in the Mekong Delta region, and certainly as far as the special forces were concerned, arguably.

So this is just a snapshot really of 1967 of what the underwater demolition teams or the Navy SEALs

were doing in and around there.

I hope you enjoy.

Let's just dive straight in.

So this is an account from T.L. Bosil Jevac.

And before his account starts, there's a bit of blurb, and I'll read it out to you.

It says, taking their name from the elements they are trained to fight in under and on the sea air and land.

The US Navy SEALs have their origins in the wartime underwater demolition teams,

UDTs.

Bear that in mind because I'll be saying UDTs quite often.

And that stands for underwater demolition teams.

So that was where sort of the Navy SEALs, the original origins were from, like it was say in a

moment, clearing the beaches before D-Day, stuff like that, because they're known as sort of

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