THEY HAVE PLOTTED deadly missions from undisclosed bases in the badlands of Somalia.
In night raids in Afghanistan, they have engaged in combat so intimate that they returned soaked in their enemies’ blood and wielded weapons from high-tech rifles to primeval tomahawks.
Those operations are part of the hidden history of Navy SEAL Team 6, one of the nation’s most mythologized, most secretive but least scrutinized military organizations.
Once a small group reserved for risky but rare missions, the unit best known for killing Osama bin Laden has been transformed by more than a decade of combat into a global manhunting machine.
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