The Special Warfare Combat Crewmen are United States Naval Special Warfare Command personnel who operate and maintain small craft for special operations missions, particularly those of U.S. Navy SEALs
Rating insignia (SB)
PT-105 underway with sister boat PT-109
Patrol Craft Fast (PCF-71) from Underwater Demolition Team (Task Force 116) returns to the Sea Float base on the Cua Long River after a patrol.
Members of Special Boat Unit 26 (SBU-26) operate in Panama before Operation Just Cause
The Mark V SOC was a marine security, patrol and special forces insertion boat used by the United States Navy and manufactured by VT Halter Marine Inc. It was introduced into service with the US Navy
Special Warfare Combat Crewmen
…stronghold. In 2002, a MH-47 Chinook helicopter with 10 American operators crashed during a night operation; none survived. In 2007, SWCC operated Mark V Special Operations Craft and conducted various maritime interdiction, visit-board-search-and-seizure, and reconnaissance operations. Some unconventional tactics and equipment…
A Mark V Special Operations Craft at Key West, Florida in 2009
A Mark V SOC launching a ScanEagle UAV
Transportable by C-5, 2011
MK V during a helicopter insertion