About the Navy SEALs

Several weeks ago, I had the honor of visiting a Navy SEAL training facility in Virginia and spending a day with a SEAL team commanded by a former colleague from my time in government. I left that experience impressed by the bravery and commitment of these young men, who were preparing for a future deployment to Afghanistan.

There are now reports that the home base of the SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden was the same facility that I visited. While I cannot confirm this, it doesn’t surprise me, because the skills I saw being inculcated in these soldiers and the stories we heard about previous operations overseas are consistent with the professionalism and quick thinking apparently deployed by the team in Pakistan.