'We lost a hero, who's also known as The Rogue Warrior, the retired Navy SEAL commander AND the creator of SEAL Team Six, my father, Richard Marcinko,' Marcinko's son tweeted.
Richard Marcinko led SEAL Team Two in what is seen as the Navy's most successful SEAL operation during the Vietnam War: the May 1967 assault on Ilo Ilo Hon.
He returned to Vietnam a second time with SEAL Team Two in 1968, and his platoon assisted U.S. Army Special Forces during the Tet Offensive.Richard Marcinko was later one of two Navy representatives on a task force working to develop a plan to free American hostages during the Iran hostage crisis in 1979.
It was after this the Navy saw the need for a dedicated counterterrorist team and tasked Richard Marcinko with designing and developing it. Although the Navy at the time only had two SEAL teams, Marcinko named the unit"SEAL Team Six" in order"to fool other nations, notably the Soviet Union, into believing that the United States had at least three other SEAL Teams that they were unaware of," the museum's post added. Richard Marcinko led SEAL Team Six for three years, from August 1980 until July 1983.
Rest easy 🙏 to Richard “Dick” Marcinko. After I read his book, “Rogue Warrior”, I decided to test myself, in becoming a U.S. Navy SEAL right after high school. Dick was a hard ass, old school Frogman and definitely a pioneer in special forces.
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