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| Tango01 | 11 Nov 2014 11:22 p.m. PST |
… team who went from being armed with knives, rafts and swimming trunks to taking out Osama Bin Laden. "They are heavily armed and known for carrying out dangerous and remote pursuits in night time helicopter raids.
But for the first Navy SEALs that would have been something of a luxury as they landed on beaches in the dark on two-man motorised rafts dubbed 'flying mattresses'.
Often members were only armed with knives and wore nothing but swimming trunks and flippers as they carried out seaborne clandestine missions during the Second World War…"
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