to cover the seals. some of the other pictures that i found so remarkable, there was one picture that really stood out, a coffin. right. at first i wasn t sure what i was seeing. it looked like a belt. this is a wooden coffin and those are the trident pins that the seals wear on their lapels. i m only guessing this is a fallen comrade and they each took the pins off of their lapels and jammed them into the wood of the coffin? this is a recent tradition that happened in the past number of years where they actually, the seals who atenld, yes, take their trident pins off their uniforms and pound them into the casket before it gets lowered into arlington cemetery. some of the other things i was looking at and i m a bit of a geek nerd and a gear nerd and when i look at these things and i see these guys, very few people would ever jump out of anything let alone a chopper like this wearing flippers but it just shows you, i don t think there is a better way to say it than the bad ass