Navy SEALs have conducted Operation Neptune Spear in 2011. This operation contains the hunt for the mastermind behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks ending on May 2, 2011. At that time helicopters from the SOAR Army (Airborne) brought Navy SEAL troops to the Osama bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

SEAL troops also participated in the Vietnam War in 1965. Initially SEAL troops only trained Vietnamese troops to operate as maritime commandos.

Later in the war, the SEALs deployed their troops to circle South Vietnam while honing their fighting skills. They often operate at night, deploying ships and helicopters to carry out brief direct actions such as ambushes, hit-and-run attacks, personnel recovery, intelligence gathering, and reconnaissance patrols.

For his actions, the Viet Cong dubbed the SEALs as "the man with the green face" because of the camouflage face paint.

Operation Red Wings 2005*
This operation was carried out on June 27, 2005. At that time four Navy SEALs were assigned to reconnaissance in the Sawtalo Sar mountains, Afghanistan. Their target was a Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, the leader of the resistance in Kunar province.

The operation was a failure at that time. Because the locals know the purpose of the SEALs. There are several ways so that these residents do not divulge the whereabouts of the troops, be released but they leak secrets or just let them go. In the end, the SEALs chose to release, because one of their rules was not to kill civilians.

The arrest of Manuel Noriega in 1989*
Six years after the invasion of Grenada, the SEALs are back into action in another Caribbean nation: Panama. There was a drug case, one of which was the country's President, Manuel Noriega. He was charged with drug trafficking in the United States.

President George Bush launched Operation Just Cause. His goal is to overthrow Noriega and bring him to justice. The SEAL's mission to deactivate Norearga's Learjet at Paitilla Airfield to prevent the perpetrators from escaping was successful.

This operation took a toll. Four SEALs were killed and eight others injured. Eventually, several platoons of SEALs tracked down and surrounded Noriega, who was taking refuge in the Vatican embassy in Panama City, before finally surrendering on January 3, 1990.

Rescue of Health Workers in Somalia in 2012*
American health worker Jessica Buchanan and her Danish colleague, Poul Thisted, were kidnapped in late 2011 and held for three months by gunmen near the town of Adado in north-central Somalia.

On the evening of January 25, 2012, an Air Force Special Operations aircraft carried DEVGRU troops to a location about two miles from where the hostages were being held.

After parachuting down and making their way through the darkness to the camp, the SEALs managed to kill the nine kidnappers within minutes. Buchanan and Thisted were evacuated by helicopter to the American base in Djibouti, where they received medical treatment.

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