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...
Dec 7, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Pearl Harbor and the Underwater Demolition Teams By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) On 7 December 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing over 2,400 Americans and severely damaging or destroying 19 U.S....
Nov 5, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Korea – September 1952 Operation FISHNET By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) As described by the writer James Berry in the U.S. Naval Institutes “Proceedings” of December 1990: “I helped document one of the strangest military actions of the war: A commando ship (USS...
Oct 16, 2025 | NSW Historical Perspectives
Navy SEAL FROGMEN By CDR (SEAL) Tom Hawkins, USN (Ret.) This story was written in 2011 in collaboration with Captain (SEAL) Norm Olson, USN (Ret.), who was the founding director of the Navy SEAL Museum. The story has been condensed and updated with revisions. In...
