Share This: Navy SEAL candidates during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in Coronado, California, January 23, 2018. US (Photo by Abe McNatt, U.S. Navy) Recently, Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, the top SEAL officer and a former commander of SEAL Team Six, testified in Congress and highlighted Naval Special Warfare Command’s strategic shift from counterterrorism operations to great-power competition against near-peer competitors, such as Russia and China. A Sea Change SEAL Qualification Training Class 336 at their graduation ceremony, April 15, 2020. (Photo by MCS 1st Class A...