How Hard Is It To Get On A Navy SWCC Team

Special operators are trained to arrive at their objective in a variety of ways, from rucking long distances, parachute jumps, or swimming unseen below the waves. But who do they call when they need a ride up an enemy contested river?
That’s where the US Navy’s elite Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman (SWCC) come in.
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[@miguelpoky2]

Was in the Army for 6 years now I'm out but going into the Navy and SWCC is the job I'm going for. Holy moly I'm in for some tough training 😂. Thankfully those 6 years in the Army has helped me but this is a different animal

[@jebkramer1263]

This makes me want to join again and do another 22yrs.

[@lornakim5706]

Merci Beaucoup!!^^ Xoxo ⚓✨

[@charlesmullins3238]

What floatie you ride in on…?

[@teanistillmon3341]

I like the boat. I was a Boat officer for the Police department I worked for. We patrolled 6 miles of Lake that was over a mile wide..I wish I would have know about this. I would have joined. I also subscribed.

[@em34ev3r]

Eh being a boat officer for a podunk agency isn’t comparable to this by far….

[@richardpanini971]

@@em34ev3r Bro there’s cops that seen more action in the streets than these military guys who never deployed

[@em34ev3r]

@@richardpanini971 shut up I am a cop. Don’t talk about shit you have no part of

[@Spacexioms]

Please cover independent duty corpsman/ 18D medics! Awesome content and great host man!

[@johnmayer8906]

When I see these brave men I feel like I am useless. 😢

[@MsRotorwings]

Nah. There are many ways to be of service. Go find something.

[@TheRagratus]

That is one BAD ASS Badge.

[@clearlakesfl-USA]

Former Coastie, that’s what’s up!

[@gunsnsails]

Best time of my life!

[@Mendedsticks]

When did you serve and which team were you at?

[@gunsnsails]

@@Mendedsticks I was SWCC from 2003 till I retired in 2013. I was on SBT20 and 22.

[@Mendedsticks]

@@gunsnsails Hey Brandon. Hows Ben? Is he still active?

[@gunsnsails]

@@Mendedsticks he is. Who dis?

[@Mendedsticks]

@@gunsnsails Stephen Forrest.

[@spookerredmenace3950]

would be cool to have one of those boats lol just drive it up and down lake ontario or rice lake here in Ontario Canada :P

[@plunger110]

I live in Virginia Beach, home of the East Coast SEALs and I have a little story about a second hand SEAL boat... A friend of an old boss of mine got ahold of one similar in style to the ones in the video that were pushed out of the back of the aircraft and were seen in the water in the following portion of the video. When the SEALs are done with the boats they would ram them with forklifts destroying the hulls to make them basically only worth scrap metal (The hulls were made from aluminum). Well this guy is a machinist and was able to repair all of the structural and outer skin damage to the boat. He put two of the biggest Chevy crate motors he could in the boat and the boat was ridiculously fast, so much so the first time he took it out of Rudee Inlet (Which is directly into the Atlantic Ocean) he was stopped 3 times that day, twice by the local police and once by the Coast Guard. I don't remember if it was the locals or the Coasties that told him "We just wanted to see what you've got in this thing (motors) because we can't catch you! HaHa. When he started the boat in the inlet, if the exhaust wasn't ported down through the water (it could be directed below or above water) you could hear the boat idling at another friends house over a mile away!!! Awesome boat I tell you. Growing up I always surfed on either side of the jettys at Rudee inlet and often we would see the SEALs leave in those boats full of team guys and head out over the horizon, about 30-45 minutes later the boat would come back... with out the guys, they would have to swim back to the base (Dam Neck) that was just down the beach from where we were surfing.

[@spookerredmenace3950]

@@plunger110 dude that would be funny to see the cops and the coast just drive over to see what he had and then talk for like 20 mins , very cool story lol

[@opwards]

shit yeah it would. Jet boats are bad ass

[@gunsnsails]

@@plunger110 they're SWCC (pronounced "swick") boats. Not SEAL boats. SWCC are they're own entity. But yeah, cool story.

[@mikehoffman3690]

True American Hero’s. 🇺🇸

[@jordan_preach6261]

SWCC is essentially: "Your gun goes pew, pew. Mine goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrr"

[@nightowl7055]

It’s a portal brrr like the A10😂😂😂

[@richardpanini971]

Big L if he was in SWCC

[@justinjonsson8988]

Do this type of video but for Navy Rescue Swimmers!

[@chuckfinlay6093]

……..please note the Coast Guard are also accepting applications 😂😂

[@DeltadronesBr]

Awesome!

[@opwards]

Shit yeah. What a bad ass gig that would be. Although i am guessing they have been more or less sucking their thumbs for the last 20 years as there probably isnt a great deal of call for their services in afganistan. I believe they were a very pivotal high valued and relied upon unit in Vietnam.

[@gunsnsails]

VN is where the SWCC lineage got it's life. It goes back further to WWII as well. But modern day SWCC were very much involved in Iraq. There's several river systems over there.

[@opwards]

@@gunsnsails ahhh thanks for that man. I guess having not been (obviously hey lol) you just as a default think of desolate rocky deserts, mountain ranges, farm lands and the like and dont think much about water courses and wetlands.

[@G41wal]

@@opwards they are mainly doing ops in like South America against the cartels and such I believe.

[@DeathMetalinfedel]

While most of that area is aircraft reliant, there are thousands of miles of rivers available. The Euphrates and Tigris in Iraq are like 3k miles combined plus several smaller waterways. Afghanistan has a dozen rivers hundreds of miles long. Helmand is close to 1000 miles I think. Don't know how strategic they are for boat guys but they are there.

[@TheAbyssGazedBack]

‘Guessing they were sucking their thumbs for the last 20 yrs as there probably isn’t a great deal of Carl for their services in Afghanistan’. You don’t think that they may be were hitting up some Catalina wine mixer‘s during that time too? Jesus christ

[@nsp8124]

America

[@BaffinSailor]

Ok stupid question I was in the Navy for 20 years and someone was trying to pull stolen valor crap on me. What the hell does the term "Pull Rack" mean. Only thing I could think of was when we used to trice racks on the ship or when you pull the rack on the M-4 or the M-16. I think maybe I am having a brain fart but I can't remember a time using that phrase ever.

[@gunsnsails]

Never heard of it. I've heard of "pull rank". What context was it used in?

[@BaffinSailor]

@@gunsnsails I told some one I was in the navy and due to time and life I don’t look like was ever in the military let alone the navy. Never the less the idiot kid asked out of blue if I knew what Pull Rack was because their uncle was in the Army and that it was supposed to be I be a common military term.. I had no fricking idea! I never heard of that term ever after 20 years in the Navy. Then the idiot started yelling stolen valor and I walked away. I got the blue ID card and the DD-214 so whatever…

[@gunsnsails]

@@BaffinSailor yeah, I got the same ID card. Never heard the term. Disregard the average moron on the street that says "My dad can beat up your dad." Overpriviledged kid that never served and lives vicariously through daddy's service.

[@latsnojokelee6434]

Lonny- A lot of kids watch videos about stolen valor and then feel they have the right to walk up to complete strangers on the street and demand to know their military service. Don Shipley, former Navy seal, as a video out telling these guys that it’s not their job to be the worlds police, especially since most of them have no idea what they’re talking about.

[@michaellewis3660]

Bad ass.

[@soonerfrac4611]

Apparently now, if you’re female you can skip the less savory aspects and “pass.”

[@latsnojokelee6434]

I love how the boys jump to the fantasy that girls have changed all the requirements. The reality is the military has changed its requirements because the boys nowadays are so out of shape. Look at the army, their physical fitness test is based on whether your job is secondary or active now.

[@burbsl1672]

Are you questioning the integrity of the SWCC instructors?

[@cn2389]

@@latsnojokelee6434 you do realize that’s for basic training they just want meat in the door and they will build them up to be a swcc or seal you need to be one the most physically able people in the planet and lowering the standards to appease feminist is part of America downfall if they truest maintained the at added little to no women would pass any advanced courses

[@philr182]

Dirty Boat Guys, hooyah.

[@stephancunningham3072]

High school degree, the mean high school diploma ?

[@johnrodriguez3870]

I, as a Former Marine and Soldier, going on 54 on 230403, can, and do say, that, not only that BRCC( Black Rifle Coffee Company ) puts out great content of Military Forces Videos, this Prior Service USMC and US Army Veteran, can,and does say, that ,the US Navy SEALs, SWCC , DEVGRU, and Special Operations EOD consist of top notch Sailors, Petty Officers and Warrant/ Commissioned Officers that do greater things for The Navy, The United States, and , even Themselves. HooYah, Shipmates!!🇺🇸🦅🌎⚓🪂🤿

[@MrSpro0t]

Очень круто, я бы тоже хотел жить в такой стране с такой армией.

[@haydensmith7551]

High school degree???

[@taylorcarey7396]

Williams Melissa Lewis Anna Miller Susan

[@peteperry6105]

Question: What's the hardest part about SWCC? Answer: The first two weeks at BUDs!

[@burbsl1672]

?

[@BlueSpades7]

SBs don’t do BUDs, it’s BCS/T.

[@peteperry6105]

@@BlueSpades7 I know. It’s a joke.

[@fraisercrane3784]

Lol going downhill ever since they let girl pass that didn’t even complete training

[@gunsnsails]

Speaking out of your backside perhaps?

[@burbsl1672]

@@gunsnsails I saw you on another vid. You were SWCC right?

[@gunsnsails]

@@burbsl1672 yes

[@burbsl1672]

@@gunsnsails I just had a dream Last night of SWCC boats barreling down a river going 60 mph shooting miniguns. It was awesome. I leave in Feb for SO. SWCC is fucking awesome though...part of me says "do that"

[@gunsnsails]

@@burbsl1672 good for you. Did you get your contract approved already?

[@candleankle1805]

Imagine being in the military now. You’re doing literally nothing but training for outdated warfare. Couldn’t even figure out Afghanistan. How you gonna figure out China and Russia? Seal swims?

[@borni8925]

The "funny" part is that the Chinese have already figured the US armed forces out. In the meantime the US military knocks them selfes out.

[@andrewheitmeyer9945]

Eh if Ukrainian civilian bakers and construction workers on the frontline can handle Russia I think we’d be okay. Chinese equipment would probably fall apart going into its 2nd week of battle.

[@JohnRodriguez-si9si]

The United States Navy, from the eyes of this Prior Service Enlisted USMC and US Army Veteran, did the right thing from making the Special Boat Squadron ( SBS) the Special Warfare Combatant Craft crewman ( SWCC) Career Field as a separate but equal Maritime Military Member of the Naval Special Warfare Community. HooYah, Shipmates!🇺🇸🇺🇲🪖💣💥🔥🪂🤿⚓

[@ham7357]

Not that hard.. probably harder than river though

[@johnrodriguez3870]

I, as a Former Marine and Soldier, going on 54 on 230403, can, and do say, that, not only that BRCC( Black Rifle Coffee Company ) puts out great content of Military Forces Videos, this Prior Service USMC and US Army Veteran, can,and does say, that ,the US Navy SEALs, SWCC , DEVGRU, and Special Operations EOD consist of top notch Sailors, Petty Officers and Warrant/ Commissioned Officers that do greater things for The Navy, The United States, and , even Themselves. HooYah, Shipmates!!🇺🇸🦅🌎⚓🪂🤿