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This group eventually adopted the "Leap Frogs" name. The team was officially commissioned as the U. The East Coast-based "Chuting Stars" were disbanded in the s with the "Leap Frogs" taking on all official parachute demonstrations within the Navy. A typical Leap Frogs performance consists of six jumpers leaping out of an aircraft at an altitude of 6, feet. After freefalling sometimes using smoke or streamers, the Leap Frogs fly their canopies together to build canopy-relative work formations.

After performances, the Leap Frogs make themselves available to the public to answer questions about the Navy and the Naval Special Warfare community, as well as to sign autographs. From its predecessors — the Underwater Demolition Teams — to its current form, the SEALs have influenced the training and formation of several foreign units.

The Museum houses rare historic artifacts from the founding of the UDT to present day, including weapons, vehicles, equipment, and most recently added, the Maersk Alabama lifeboat aboard which Somali pirates held Captain Richard Phillips hostage.

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Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. This page was last edited on 9 September , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Three ECEs Call signs: Dragon 1 to 3 would carry the logistical supplies. The crew of Nimitz were unaware of the reason for the eight helicopters' presence on their ship for months leading up to the rescue attempt; they were told that the helicopters were there to execute a minesweeping mission.

Because it would be close to morning, the helicopters and ground forces would hide during the day at Desert Two.

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The second night would involve the rescue operation. While the main assault force was moving to Tehran, other US troops would disable electrical power to the area, in an effort to slow any response from the Iranian military. In addition, AC gunships would be deployed over Tehran to provide any necessary supporting fire. The ground troops would assault the embassy and eliminate the guards.

Afterwards the hostages and troops would rendezvous with the helicopters across the street at the Amjadieh Stadium. Finally, the helicopters would bring everyone to the Manzariyeh Air Base, where the Cs could fly everyone back to friendly territory. For this operation, the aircraft bore special invasion stripes identification on their right wings. CVW attack aircraft A-7s and A-6s had an orange stripe enclosed by two black stripes. The special operations transports took off from their staging base at Masirah Island , Oman , and flew to Desert One.

The landing was made under blacked-out conditions using the improvised infrared landing light system installed by Carney on the airstrip, visible only through night vision goggles. The heavily loaded Dragon 1 required four passes to determine that there were no obstructions on the airstrip [Note 2] and to align with the runway. The landing resulted in substantial wing damage to the aircraft that later required it be rebuilt "from the ground up", but no one was hurt and it remained flyable.

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The ground force consisted of 93 Delta soldiers to assault the embassy, a man special forces assault team from Detachment "A" Berlin Brigade to assault the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 12 Rangers forming the roadblock team, and 15 Iranian and American Persian -speakers, most of whom would act as truck drivers. The second and third MCs landed using both runways and discharged the remainder of the Delta soldiers, after which Dragon 1 and 2 took off at Soon after the first crews landed and began securing Desert One, a tanker truck, apparently smuggling fuel, was blown up nearby by the Army Ranger roadblock team using a shoulder-fired rocket as it tried to escape the site.

The truck's passenger was killed, but the driver managed to escape in an accompanying pickup truck. As the tanker truck was evaluated to be engaged in clandestine smuggling, the driver was not considered to pose a security threat to the mission. A civilian Iranian bus with a driver and 43 passengers traveling on the same road, which now served as the runway for the aircraft, was forced to halt at approximately the same time and the passengers were detained aboard Republic 3.

While en route, Bluebeard 6 was grounded and abandoned in the desert when its pilots interpreted a sensor indication as a cracked rotor blade. Its crew was picked up by Bluebeard 8. The remaining helicopters ran into an unexpected weather phenomenon known as a haboob [19] an enormous, nearly opaque cloud of fine dust particles that can follow a thunderstorm.

Bluebeard 5 flew into the haboob, but abandoned the mission and returned to the Nimitz when erratic flight instrumentation made flying without visual reference points impossible. The scattered formation reached Desert One, 50 to 90 minutes behind schedule. Bluebeard 2 arrived last at Desert One at With only five helicopters remaining to transport the men and equipment to Desert Two, which Beckwith considered was the mission's abort threshold, the various commanders reached a stalemate.

Helicopter commander Seiffert refused to use Bluebeard 2 on the mission, while Beckwith refused to reduce his rescue team's size. Beckwith anticipated losing additional helicopters at later stages, especially as they were notorious for failing on cold starts and they were to be shut down for almost 24 hours at Desert Two. Kyle recommended to Vaught that the mission be aborted. The recommendation was passed on by satellite radio up to the President. After two and a half hours on the ground, the abort order was received. Fuel consumption calculations showed that the extra 90 minutes idling on the ground had made fuel critical for one of the ECs.

When it became clear that only six helicopters would arrive at Desert One, Kyle had authorized the ECs to transfer 1, US gallons from the bladders to their own main fuel tanks, but Republic 4 had already expended all of its bladder fuel refueling three of the helicopters and had none to transfer. To make it to the air tanker refueling track without running out of fuel, it had to leave immediately, and was already loaded with part of the Delta team.

In addition, RH Bluebeard 4 needed additional fuel, requiring it be moved to the opposite side of the road.

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To accomplish both actions, Bluebeard 3 had to be moved from directly behind the EC The aircraft couldn't be moved by ground taxi and had to be moved by hover taxi flying a short distance at low speed and altitude. As the Controller attempted to back away, Bluebeard 3 's pilot perceived he was drifting backward engulfed in a dust cloud, the pilot only had the Controller as a point of reference and thus attempted to "correct" this situation by applying forward stick in order to maintain the same distance from the rearward moving marshaller. In the ensuing explosion and fire, eight servicemen died: The helicopter crews boarded the ECs.

Five RH aircraft were left behind mostly intact, some damaged by shrapnel. Bluebeards 2 and 8 now serve with the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy. The injured were then transported to Ramstein Air Base in Germany. The White House announced the failed rescue operation at 1: The embassy hostages were subsequently scattered across Iran to make a second rescue attempt impossible.

Iranian Army investigators found nine bodies, eight Americans and one Iranian civilian. The 44 Iranian civilians captured on the bus gave eyewitness accounts of the operation.

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Eight US service members died during the mission. A memorial honoring them is located in the Arlington National Cemetery. Bond read President Jimmy Carter 's eulogy at a memorial service to them. Holloway III led the official investigation in into the causes of the operation's failure on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Holloway Report primarily cited deficiencies in mission planning, command and control, and inter-service operability, and provided a catalyst to reorganize the Department of Defense, and the Goldwater-Nichols Act of The various services' failure to cohesively work together prompted the establishment of a new multi-service organization several years later.

The lack of well-trained Army helicopter pilots who were capable of the low-level night flying needed for modern special operations missions prompted the creation of the th Special Operations Aviation Regiment SOAR Night Stalkers. In addition to the th SOAR's creation, the US Defense Department now trains many military helicopter pilots in low-level penetration, aerial refueling and use of night-vision goggles. S-rank medical is in Ex26 and Escape from Prison mission. Just look for POW in both missions. Best but still pain to get thru is EX26, unless you don't mind to do repeat some notorious event scene in Escape mission.

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