He continued, 'Now I'm going to tell you, one of these days, if you keep publishing how you do this, the other guy's going to be there ready for you, and you're going to fly in and he's going to shoot down every damn helicopter and kill every one of your SEALs. Army Delta Force commander, excoriated Admiral William McRaven, commander of USSOCOM, for the SEAL publicity machine: 'Since the time when your wonderful team went and drug bin Laden out and got rid of him, and more recently when you went down and rescued the group in Somalia, or wherever the hell they were, they've been splashing all of this all over the media.' In a bracing exchange earlier this month, Lieutenant General James Vaught, a retired former U.S. The simple truth is these SEALs have earned the right to strut their stuff Twenty-five years after its inception and 10 years into its hardest and most costly call to duty, here is an official stamp on how the special operations community wants to be recognized. Navy and starring actual SEALS who've seen war and will see war again, the production is an interesting experiment for the secretive U.S. Rather, it would seem to be a plain assertion of what we are already doing. The film, which opens nationwide this weekend, is neither hyper-patriotic nor prescriptive of what America should be doing around the world.
It is disingenuous to call Act of Valor a work of propaganda.
