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	Special Operations.Com
		Underwater Demolition Team members pass a rubber boat from the deck of USS Diachenko (APD-123) to a waiting LCVP, 26 October 1950.
		Underwater Demolition Team "Frogmen" swim ashore from a LCVP in Wonsan harbor, while on a mission to destroy a North Korean minefield, 26 October 1950.
		Underwater Demolition Team personnel paddle ashore at Wonsan, while on a mission to destroy a North Korean minefield, 26 October 1950.
	www.specialoperations.com /History/Korea/Wonson/Default.htm (693 words)

	team13
		The UDT teams were briefed that is was going to be a very hazardous operation, possibly the worst of the Pacific War, but otherwise the information did little to predict what was in store for the Marine Corps.
		Team Twelve was assigned to the USS Bates and Team Thirteen was assigned to the USS Barr and on
		UDT people were asked to man their rubber boats, and were supplied with short pieces of railroad iron and non-corrosive wire.
	www.navyfrogmen.com /team13.html (4620 words)

	Underwater Demolition Team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) were a precursor to the current United States Navy SEALs.
		In 1983, existing UDTs were re-designated as "SEAL teams" or "SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams" and the requirement for hydrographic reconnaissance and underwater demolition became "SEAL missions".
		In the modern age, the Underwater Demolition Badge is considered obsolete.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underwater_Demolition_Team (369 words)

	Team History
		Underwater Demolition Teams ushered in a whole new dimension to amphibious warfare.
		Team # 14, the first "All Navy Team", the first to be trained in six weeks, half the normal time of twelve weeks, the first and as far as can be determined the only team to receive all it’s training on Maui, was successful.
		Underwater Demolition Team # 14, the first to be recruited from the fleet, "The Great Experiment" WAS SUCCESSFUL and is proud to have been a part of the forerunners of the SEALS, recognized today as the "ELITE" of the "ELITE" in Special Warfare Forces.
	home.att.net /~goodye2/team_history.htm (1217 words)

	SFOR Informer Online: SFOR rids Bosanski Brod of dangerous bombs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Once notified, the local authorities contacted the government's demining team who in turn, sought the expertise of SFOR EOD teams to develop a solution that would eliminate the hazardous ordnance it was believed to be a result of bombing that was intended for the bridge more than a decade ago.
		He added that, "While all the demolition teams possessed the expertise to destroy the bombs in place, they determined that because of their size and the expected blast, it would be unsafe to destroy them where they were located."
		Gregory explained that while the bombs were located underwater, the fact that they were in a shallow depth with limited visibility due to the silt carried by the current made his work extremely difficult.
	www.nato.int /sfor/indexinf/166/p07a/t02p07a.htm (720 words)

	Luzon
		Team Nine survivors were assigned to the USS Sands, APD-13, and on the morning or January 13 they left Lingayen Gulf bound for Pearl Harbor.
		Underwater Demolition Team Fourteen was the first “fleet team.” Admiral Turner, Commanding Officer of the Pacific Amphibious Forces, in September of 1944, issued a directive to organize three underwater demolition teams using volunteer combat veterans from the Pacific Fleet.
		On November 30, Team Fifteen was assigned to the USS Blessman, APD-48.
	www.udtseal.org /luzon.html (3042 words)

	Underwater Demolition Badge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Underwater Demolition Badge was established as a decoration for members of Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) and is considered a predecessor decoration to the modern day Special Warfare Badge.
		The Underwater Demolition Badge was originally worn as a patch on the upper sleeve of a Navy uniform.
		As Underwater Demolition Teams began to be phased into the Navy SEALs, the Underwater Demolition Badge was used as a template for the new SEAL Badge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underwater_Demolition_Badge (270 words)

	UDT26
		On M plus 1, the team made a reconnaissance around the coal dock on the mole to determine a good location for an LST berthing and re-surveyed the channel in order to train officer pilots.
		Underwater Demolition Group SEVEN CTU 78.1.61 (Captain J. Cleland, USNR) was directed in OcOrder of ComTransRon SEVENTEEN No. 1-45 section (0) to "reconnoiter along north bank in search of suitable location for landing vehicles over ramps".
		TEAM ROSTERS - To protect the integrity of the Teams and the privacy of individual frogmen, Team rosters are not made public.
	www.viewoftherockies.com /UDT26.html (1098 words)

	CMDR. DOUG FANE NAVY UDT LEADER Biography Written by Edward C. Cargile
		Doug Fane was a leader of the U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT), helped prevent disbanding the UDT, evaluated and developed advanced diving equipment, launched new diving techniques, and shared his expertise in several other aspects of diving and the public, Francis Douglas Fane was born November 16, 1909 in Aberdeen, Scotland.
		UDT perfected their skills in guerrilla warfare and use of explosives for sabotage.
		Fane and his UDT divers were involved in the first dives under the Arctic ice using air scuba during 1953.
	www.globalspecialoperations.com /fane.html (1637 words)

	Definition of Underwater Demolition Badge
		The Underwater Demolition Badge was established as a decoration for members of Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) and is considered a predecessor decoration to the modern day Special Warfare Badge.
		The Underwater Demolition Badge was originally worn as a patch on the upper sleeve of a Navy uniform.
		As Underwater Demolition Teams began to be phased into the Navy Seals, the Underwater Demolition Badge was used a template for the new SEAL Badge.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Underwater_Demolition_Badge (301 words)

	JohnPCooper
		His attitude and understanding of U. UDT training techniques was to prove invaluable.In Taiwan a group of 128 trainees had been carefully selected from a larger group of volunteers, based on their physical ability, swimming ability and perceived motivation.
		The Nationalist Chinese Underwater Demolition Team was officially established in early September of 1954.
		The initial Team comprised the 61 officers and enlisted men who completed the training program, and was augmented by an additional 27 officers and enlisted men who had completed a shorter training program given earlier by a U.
	www.viewoftherockies.com /JohnPCooper.html (1262 words)

	underwater demolition team - OneLook Dictionary Search
		We found 2 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word underwater demolition team:
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		underwater demolition_team : DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=underwater+demolition+team&ls=a (84 words)

	eBay Guides - Underwater Demolition Team
		During the Korean Conflict, these Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) took part in the landing at Inchon as well as other missions including demolition raids on bridges and tunnels accessible from the water.
		In 1983, existing UDTs were re-designated as "SEAL teams" or "SEAL Delivery Vehicle Teams" and the requirement for hydrographic reconnaissance and underwater demolition became "SEAL missions".
		In the modern age, the Underwater Demolition Badge is considered obsolete.
	reviews.ebay.com /Underwater-Demolition-Team_W0QQugidZ10000000001452639 (425 words)

	Ambushed on the Song Ong Doc
		Members of Underwater Demolition Team Thirteen Detachment GOLF, augmented by frogmen from Underwater Demolition Team Twenty-One, were preparing to embark on a search and destroy mission up this slow moving brown waterway of the Mekong Delta.
		Usually, at about this time of early morning, a squad of men from SEAL Team One, who were also operating from the Terrell County, would be returning from night operations, often with a prisoner or two for interrogation.
		The UDT men wore flack vests and steel pots while on the boat, but when we disembarked, we would shed the extra weight of them.
	www.pcf45.com /sealords/songongdoc/songongdoc.html (2551 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The army has asked the navy's specialized underwater demolition team to help with the disposal operation.
		But the underwater demolition team might not be able to meet the army's expectations, a navy official said.
		The team specializes in defu-sing mines, rather than unexploded bombs, and it might be futile to expect too much from them, the official said.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/archives/2003/09/23/2003068904/print (346 words)

	Jesse Ventura: SEAL or UDT?
		I also knew a lot about Det Alfa from SEAL Team Two, because I was the executive officer of that Team in 1970.
		The UDTs rotated their platoons through a headquarters in Subic Bay, where many of the frogmen relived high school glory days playing football on base and freeballing it through Po Town on liberty.
		Those who completed BUD/S, when Jesse was in training, were sent to either a SEAL or an underwater demolition team.
	www.cursor.org /stories/seal_or_udt.htm (740 words)

	Ambushed on the Song Ong Doc
		Members of Underwater Demolition Team Thirteen Detachment GOLF, augmented by frogmen from Underwater Demolition Team Twenty-One, were preparing to embark on a search and destroy mission up this slow moving brown waterway of the Mekong Delta.
		Usually, at about this time of early morning, a squad of men from SEAL Team One, who were also operating from the Terrell County, would be returning from night operations, often with a prisoner or two for interrogation.
		The UDT men wore flack vests and steel pots while on the boat, but when we disembarked, we would shed the extra weight of them.
	pcf45.com /sealords/songongdoc/songongdoc.html (2551 words)

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		One of the first to come out of the famed Underwater Demolition Team 21, he was an initial member - a "plank owner" - of America's deadliest and most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs.
		This is the story of a hero told from the heart and from the gut - an authentic tour of duty with one of the most legendary commandoes of the Vietnam War.
		Team Two SEALs must penetrate the enemy's protected heart like a stiletto, with a swift, sharp and deadly precise stab into the North.
	www.realseal.org /books.htm (558 words)

	USS BEGOR (APD-127) Association. History
		The Underwater Demolition Team cleared the docks for the USS SAN DIEGO and demilitarized ships at the Naval Base.
		Underwater Demolition Team "Easy", later renamed UDT-3, was assigned the control and maintenance of the drone boats.
		Included in the medical team was Dr. Thomas A. Dooley, who devoted his life to humanitarian causes in Southeast Asia.
	www.ussbegor.org /history.htm (3603 words)

	Big pond duty
		John Gee of Chesterville was a member of the underwater demolition team, the predecessor of the U.S. Navy SEALS, during World War II.
		Few were aware that at dawn that day, his underwater demolition team was sent in, under enemy fire, to wire and detonate treacherous obstacles planted beneath the surf by the German army to thwart an invasion.
		Gee was a "frogman," trained to be a member of the Underwater Demolition Team, an assault unit of Army and Navy men who set explosives to blast apart strategically placed, hidden metal stakes and prongs, mines and other structures that could rip holes in the bottoms of landing craft.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /news/local/1772382.shtml (953 words)

	Spence Dry: A SEAL's Story - Page 1
		Special operations forces from SEAL (sea, air, land) Team One and Underwater Demolition Team (UDT)-11 were assigned to assist the POWs.
		The team's primary mission was to engage in unconventional warfare, conducting counterguerrilla and clandestine operations in coastal and riverine areas, but with President Richard Nixon's "Vietnamization" policy in full swing, the only combat assignments were one-year tours as advisors to South Vietnamese units.
		Dry, Martin, and the two UDT operators, Lieutenant (j.g.) John Lutz and Fireman Thomas Edwards, launched from the submerged Grayback shortly after midnight, but a combination of navigational errors and the strong current took them off course.
	www.military.com /NewContent/0,13190,NI_0705_Seal-P1,00.html (1476 words)

	frogmenbook3
		She has also mothered a whole new type of naval combat unit, and the men who go with it: the underwater demolition teams and their "Frogmen," the human torpedoes who compose them.
		Other nations were quick to see the possibilities of such tactics and have since developed this underwater combat technique along with us.
		It was suddenly obvious that some sort of missions would have to be undertaken to clear proposed invasion beach areas, and their offshore waters, of both natural and man-made obstructions, mines, and entanglements.
	users.frii.com /rdruss/frogmenbook2.html (563 words)

	Thomas Parkinson Memorial
		At age 30 in 1960, he was the oldest man to train for the Navy's rigorous Underwater Demolition Team, the precursor of the Navy SEALS.
		During advanced underwater training in 1960, the team dived on a shipwreck in 110 feet of water off St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
		Parkinson would hold his breath, dive down to the wreck using only a mask and flippers, shoot a few pictures of the team, go back to the surface for a breath, then do it all again.
	www.navyphoto.org /memorial/parkinsonmem.html (604 words)

	The Virtual Wall® - Thomas Holloway, QM3, Navy, New Castle IN, 12Apr69 27W064
		On 12 April 1969, eight PCFs of CosDiv-11 were ambushed by a VC heavy weapons company; three men died in the abush - Petty Officer Holloway aboard PCF-51 and Lieutenant Donald Droz and Chief Hospital Corpsman Robert Worthington of Underwater Demolition Team 13 aboard PCF-43.
		A B-40 rocket exploded on the fantail, killing HMC Worthington and wounding two other men from the UDT team, while others were hit by small arms fire.
		PCF-43's radios were out of action and the UDT team's handheld PRC-25 lacked the power to break in on the PCF radio net.
	www.virtualwall.org /dh/HollowayTE01a.htm (537 words)

	All Hands - April 2001 - Reinventing BUD/S
		Part of Phase 1 of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training is what is commonly called "surf conditioning." Teamwork is developed among the men as they lie in a line with arms connected while the cold California surf washes over them.
		The first eight-week phase is known as the physical conditioning phase, and places a strong emphasis on running, swimming, navigating the obstacle course and basic water and lifesaving skills.
		Emphasis in Third Phase is placed on small unit tactics, patrolling, weapons training and demolition, giving students a feel for what to expect once they have earned their special warfare pin and been deemed a SEAL.
	www.mediacen.navy.mil /pubs/allhands/apr01/pg24.htm (1353 words)

	Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He was commissioned as an ensign in the Navy and after graduation as the Honor Man on his class, he underwent underwater demolition team training in Little Creek, VA.
		In October 1966, he was assigned to SEAL Team 1 in Colorado, with which he was twice deployed in Vietnam as executive officer.
		Admiral LeMoyne commanded Underwater Demolition Team 11 from June 1969 to April 1971 in the Western Pacific and in Vietnam.
	www.epysa.org /admiralcharles.shtml (552 words)

	USS Diachenko APD-123
		She supported United Nations forces from her base in Sasebo, often carrying an underwater demolition team making beach surveys and conducting reconnaissance.
		During her second tour of duty in the Korean War from 10 Marchto 5 December 1952, Diachenko again carried an underwater demolition team on reconnaissance missions and raids at Wonsan, and participated in the bombardment and blockade of the coast from Wonsan to Chongjin.
		Leaving San Diego 28 August 1956 Diachenko embarked an underwater demolition team at Yokosuka and a Marine reconnaissance company at Okinawa and sailed to Thailand to train their Thai counterparts.
	www.multied.com /Navy/APD/Diachenko.html (720 words)

	Russell Irby's UDT Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Teams were responsible for conducting reconnaissance and demolition missions along enemy held beaches in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of operation.
		During the Korean conflict, UDTs were once again called into action, conducting night demolition raids and serving as human minesweepers in harbors and rivers.
		UDT 12 supported the last in-country UDT detachment at Solid Anchor, Nam Cann, Republic of Vietnam in 1971.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~irby2/rli.htmlx (719 words)

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