History UsefulNotes / NavySEALs

* Creator/CharlieSheen's movie ''Film/NavySeals'' has a reporter who has contacts among terrorists but refuses to divulge information to Michael Biehn's character about terrorist possessing surface-to-air missiles. He takes her into a kill house (where the teams practice fighting inside buildings) and has a team actually engage around them, to give the reporter an idea of how it feels being helpless around a bunch of armed attackers, to get her to divulge the information needed to rescue the captured US personnel.

* Obviously, Sony's ''[[VideoGame/SOCOMUSNavySeals SOCOM: US Navy SEALs]]'' series.
* One of the units available in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2''. Elites who wipe out enemy soldiers, can swim and blow up buildings. Of course, this being a ''Command and Conquer'' game, they are [[CripplingOverspecialization absolutely helpless against vehicles.]]
* As well as Delta Force in the video game...um, ''Delta Force'', players can also choose to play as [=SEALs=], among other special forces in ''Task Force Dagger.''
* The Navy SEAL is the Americans' special unit in ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}} IV''
* Surprisingly averted for most of the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' and ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' series. The [=SEALs=] don't show up onscreen until ''Modern Warfare 2'' (where their slogan provides a level name), and you don't play one until ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII''.

* In ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'', Sam Fisher was a former Navy SEAL before he became an NSA agent. This is [[AlternateContinuity in contrast to]] the ''Splinter Cell'' novels, where he was a former CIA agent instead. In ''Blacklist'' SEAL Team Six is mentioned to have been killed off in the Middle East [[TheWorfEffect to highlight how much of a threat the Engineers are]]. Late in the game, Fisher assists another SEAL team in Louisiana in fighting off an Engineer attack at an oil refinery.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Mithril operative "Spec" is an ex-Navy SEAL.

* TheSpartanWay: See TrainingFromHell immediately below, to become a SEAL involves swimming, running, lifting, more swimming, underwater navigation, navigating through explosive laden obstacle courses while being shot at, [[RuleOfThree some more swimming]], constant harassment and abuse, navigating a series of tall logs spaced far apart without falling, swimming, survival evasion and escape from enemy patrols, withstanding interrogation, and [[OverlyLongGag even more swimming still]]. Those who pass move on to demolitions and parachute work.

* TheSpartanWay: See TrainingFromHell immediately below, to become a SEAL involves swimming, running, lifting, swimming, underwater navigation, navigating through explosive laden obstacle courses while being shot at, [[RuleOfThree swimming]], constant harassment and abuse, navigating a series of tall logs spaced far apart without falling, swimming, survival evasion and escape from enemy patrols, withstanding interrogation, and [[OverlyLongGag swimming]]. Those who pass move on to demolitions and parachute work.

* ''Film/BrokenArrow'' features an ex-SEAL mook.

Sounds like a comic book, doesn't it? Well, the team is real. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy created the Navy Sea Air Land commandos, or Navy [=SEALs=], in the '60s, where they served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the UsefulNotes/GulfWar, and beyond to TheWarOnTerror. Before, in World War 2, they were sent to reconnoiter enemy beaches before an invasion. They would measure the depth of the water, look for any natural features that might hang up a landing craft, and destroy any man made obstacles. They did this while under enemy fire from the beach.

* TheWarOnTerror: After the 9/11 attacks, [=SEALs=] were deployed to the Persian Gulf to intercept suspected Taliban vessels, before moving in on Afghanistan to perform recon and help escort [[SemperFi Marines]] to launch the attack, no doubt the mother of all bodyguards. They would continue to work in country over the following weeks and months, specifically when they themselves were captured and had to be rescued by other elite, badass special forces. They would later secure Iraqi oil when the country was invaded, [[BigDamnHeroes saved a hijacked ship from Somali pirates]], and on May 1, 2011, were sent on a covert operation into Pakistan at the behest of UsefulNotes/BarackObama. This was the mission every SEAL writer dreams of: a high-stakes infiltration and strike that could potentially result in World War III. That dream was realized when, with the aid of intelligence agencies, the [=SEALs=] were able to track down and kill UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden, with the news a RealLife example of AndThereWasMuchRejoicing, with sports events interrupted by the news and the legendary [=SEALs=] writing themselves into the history books in the process.

Sounds like a comic book, doesn't it? Well, the team is real. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy created the Navy Sea Air Land commandos, or Navy [=SEALs=], in the '60s, where they served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the UsefulNotes/GulfWar, and beyond to TheWarOnTerror. Before, in World War 2, they were sent to reconnoiter enemy beaches before an invasion. They would measure the depth of the water, look for any natural features that might hang up a landing craft, and destroy any man made obstacles. They dod this while under enemy fire from the beach.

* The reboot of ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' re-imagines Steve [=McGarrett=] as a Navy SEAL, and the pilot begins with Steve in the middle of a SEAL mission in South Korea. When asked to head the governor's special task force, Steve becomes a CowboyCop, taking his SEAL training and applying it to solve major crimes. Series 2 introduces his SEAL instructor Joe White, a BadassGrandpa who can still hold his own in a fight.

Sounds like a comic book, doesn't it? Well, the team is real. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy created the Navy Special Warfare Development Group, or Navy [=SEALs=], in the '60s, where they served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the UsefulNotes/GulfWar, and beyond to TheWarOnTerror. Before, in World War 2, they were sent to reconnoiter enemy beaches before an invasion. They would measure the depth of the water, look for any natural features that might hang up a landing craft, and destroy any man made obstacles. They dod this while under enemy fire from the beach.

* Agent [[Creator/LLCoolJ Sam Hanna]] of ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' was a SEAL who still has occasional dealings with them, and is held in very high regard by his brethren.

* Another drama that debuted in September 2017, ''Series/SEALTeam'', stars Creator/DavidBoreanaz as head of DEVGRU a.k.a. SEAL Team Six.

Sounds like a comic book, doesn't it? Well, the team is real. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy created the Navy Special Warfare Development Group, or Navy [=SEALs=], in the '60s, where they served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the UsefulNotes/GulfWar, and beyond to TheWarOnTerror. Before, in World War 2, they were sent to reconnoiter enemy beaches before an invasion. They would measure the depth of the water, look for any natural features that might hang up a landing craft, and destroy any man made obstacles.

Sounds like a comic book, doesn't it? Well, the team is real. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy created the Navy Special Warfare Development Group, or Navy [=SEALs=], in the '60s, where they served in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, the UsefulNotes/ColdWar, the UsefulNotes/GulfWar, and beyond to TheWarOnTerror. Before, they were Navy Divers (elite soldiers sent to recover lost nukes at sea) and UDT (underwater demolitions experts sent to blow up enemy ships transporting those nukes for their diver swim buddies to recover).