Pudding Mittens wrote:I thought they came out of DEVGRU to begin with? Or I could be remembering wrong. I'm too lazy to look it up.
Nope. Vicey versy.
They came out of ST1 to start. Marcinko saw the terrorist thing starting to get teeth and inhouse formed "Mob-6" A mobility platoon to specificly train for CT. (Teams were traditionally 5 platoons at that time)
Gormly got into the fray and stood up the Team. It was deep dark for awhile, but they went cowboy as the "elites of the elite" status kicked in. A lot of money and gear went missing. I was in NSWG at the time, they tried to keep it low key but just couldn't in the end. It was pretty bad and word got out. Marcinko went to jail, they flushed the bigger problems, although I think a couple good cats got flushed, and started over. New commander, new unit "do-over" They stood up as dev-gru trying to distance it from 6.
I think in the long run it was better. There were still issues, with that many type AA+ types in one place one just can't help but expect it. But the professionalism and training went up by leaps and bounds.