Q 01/05

Why did founder Richard Marcinko name his new Navy counter-terrorism unit SEAL Team Six in 1980?

A) It was the sixth team formed

B) To fool Soviet spies

C) It began with six operators

D) To honour six fallen SEALs

Answer · why

B) To fool Soviet spies

The name was meant to fool Soviet spies into counting SEAL teams that did not exist. The Navy had only two at the time.

Q 02/05

How did the first Green Berets in Afghanistan after 9/11, portrayed in the film 12 Strong, travel into battle?

A) On horseback

B) By motorcycle

C) On camels

D) In pickup trucks

Answer · why

A) On horseback

They rode on horseback because their Afghan allies' mounts were the only transport suited to the mountains. Only the team's captain had real riding ex...

Q 03/05

Which TV survival host served as a trooper with 21 SAS before a skydiving accident broke his back?

A) Ray Mears

B) Les Stroud

C) Bear Grylls

D) Ed Stafford

Answer · why

C) Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls spent three years in the reserve regiment, then climbed Everest just 18 months after breaking three vertebrae when his canopy failed over ...

Q 04/05

Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden in a 2011 helicopter raid on a walled compound in which Pakistani city?

A) Peshawar

B) Rawalpindi

C) Quetta

D) Abbottabad

Answer · why

D) Abbottabad

Abbottabad is a garrison town, and the hideout stood under a mile from Pakistan's military academy. One of the raiders' stealth helicopters crashed in...

Q 05/05

What do Navy SEAL candidates call the five and a half days of near-sleepless training early in BUD/S?

A) The Crucible

B) Hell Week

C) The Long Walk

D) Robin Sage

Answer · why

B) Hell Week

Hell Week gives each candidate about four hours of sleep in total while running more than 200 miles. It arrives in only the fourth week of the course.