SEAL Team 6: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Naval Special Warfare Development Group • DEVGRU
Areas Of Involvement	amphibious warfare

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U.S. President Barack Obama places the Medal of Honor around Navy Senior Chief Edward Byers Jr.'s neck during a ceremony at the White House, with American flags in the background.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates, and national security officials seated and standing around a conference table in the White House Situation Room, focused on a mission update.

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Caption: Through "Death Valley" - one of the Marines of a Leatherneck Company, driving through Japanese machine gun fire while crossing a draw rises from cover for a quick dash forward to another position, Okinawa, 10 May 1945. (World War II)

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