In a Vietnam jungle in 1968, a team of US Navy SEALs set up a claymore to trigger a jungle ambush. But they didn’t realize they’d attached the explosive charge to a rotten tree.

In Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUDS) training, ... SEAL teams are the ones who went to Vietnam duty; we still had to make deployments to the Mediterranean, Caribbean, ...

“In Vietnam, SEALs learned to depend on small-unit tactics,” said George Worthington, an officer who did two Vietnam deployments with a Coronado underwater demolition team before returning for ...

CBS 8 embedded on a flight filled with U.S. Navy SEAL Vietnam War era veterans and U.S. Naval Special Warfare Operators who are visiting their memorials in D.C.

By the time he graduated in 1969, the Vietnam War was underway. Jesse Ventura Military Service. Ventura enlisted in the U.S. ... His 100-man unit, called Underwater Demolition Team 12, ...

CBS 8 will join Honor Flight San Diego for the historic flight of Vietnam-era U.S. Naval Special ... He was 25 when he enlisted and served in the Underwater Demolition Team or UDT 11 in Vietnam in ...

Fred "Tiz" Morrison, thought to be the first Black Navy SEAL, technically served as a "frogman" on an underwater demolition team, the precursor to today's Navy SEALs. According to Navy.mil ...

The first SEAL Teams were created in 1962, with one on each coast. All came from the UDT Teams. With the Vietnam War about to get the United States heavily involved, President Kennedy was a huge ...