Jun 9, 2026 | NSW Historical Perspectives
The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History Saving Lieutenant Mark Clark and LTCOL “Gene” Hambleton, USAF By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) During 1972, U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Tom Norris was serving as an advisor with Strategic Technical Directorate...
Apr 27, 2026 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Combatant Submersibles – Part III By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) No documentation has been discovered about the forethought and promulgation of the Navy’s Technical Development Plan 38-02, which was entitled “The Swimmer Support System.” It was very simple and...
Apr 27, 2026 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Combatant Submersibles – Part I A Photographic History: 1776 – 1945 By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) The Navy SEAL Museum displays versions of the MK VII, MK VIII, and MK IX SEAL Delivery Vehicles (SDVs) at various locations throughout its grounds. There is...
Apr 1, 2026 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Operation ThunderheadThe Last SEAL Team Mission of the Vietnam War By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) In April 1972, a UDT-SEAL Team detachment left Subic Bay in the Philippine Islands aboard the submarine USS Grayback (LPSS-574), which had been modified to...
Jan 22, 2026 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Saving Jessica BuchananSomalia East Africa – The Men You Don’t See By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) Under cover of darkness on the night of 25 January 2012, U.S. Navy SEALs jumped into the abyss of a very dark night sky at a very high altitude. After...
Dec 18, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Korea December 1950UDT-3 Destroys Hungnam Harbor By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) On Christmas Eve 1950, United Nations forces had reached the Yalu River, which served as the border with China. Responding to that threat, Beijing sent more than 180,000 People’s...
