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Part of of SOFREP's interview with Dick Marcinko on the formation of SEAL Team-Six. This episode is about Operation Eagle Claw, the failed desert mission to rescue fifty-two American hostages in Iran.
His rogue leadership style and bravado helped fuel the unit's reputation as the elite of the elite, but it also alienated superiors.
Richard Marcinko, a self-styled "rogue warrior" who in 1980 became the first commander of Navy SEAL Team 6, an elite Special Operations force whose legend he fueled as the best-selling author of books drawn from his derring-do, died Dec. 25 at his home in Warrenton, Va. He was 81.
Richard Marcinko, who founded the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 after earning accolades as a SEAL leader during two tours in Vietnam, died Christmas Day at age 81, the National Navy SEAL Museum has announced.
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