It appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is looking to send some of its military members to U.S. Navy SEAL training (BUD/S) and they are really shooting for the moon in terms of seeking out former U.S. Navy SEALs to prepare them. According to a source familiar with a contract entered into to train the Saudis, the Kingdom has contracted with an American security consulting firm run by a former SEAL admiral, to hire three instructors to help prepare the Saudi candidates for Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training.
Specifically, the Saudis are looking for a “Senior Instructor” Navy SEAL, who must have 20-plus years of Naval Special Warfare experience, and have been retired less than 5 years. He must also be a “Tier One operator,” meaning that he was assigned to the SEAL’s tier one element, commonly called SEAL Team 6. Bit of overkill, isn’t it, just to prepare someone to go to BUD/S?
The Saudis are also looking for an “Assistant Instructor,” Navy SEAL, with no less than six years of active duty service, and who also has been retired less than 5 years. This position is “Tier One preferred,” as well. Jesus, fellas, you really want to prepare these guys, don’t you?
Finally, a “Special Operations Medic Instructor” is being sought, who needs only an 18-D equivalent qualification (a special operations medic from either the Air Force, Navy, or Army special operations), and who is, again, “Tier One preferred.” He must also have the same years of service and retirement date prerequisite as the assistant instructor position. I wonder if the Saudis plan to hurt their guys as they prepare them for BUD/S, and thus need a medic? Curious.
The three contractors would be based in Saudi Arabia, for at least one year, presumably the whole time helping prepare Saudi commandos to go to BUD/S. Now, it is not uncommon for foreign militaries to send a few personnel to BUD/S now and again, to see if they can make it through and return home having completed the toughest military training in the world. That’s not really the issue here. The Saudis wanting to send people to BUD/S is pretty routine, actually.
The odd thing here is why they are requiring “Tier One operators” to train their people to go to basic SEAL training? The “B” in BUD/S stands for ‘Basic,’ after all, meaning that BUD/S is entry-level SEAL training. It has nothing to do with operations at the strategic, or national-level. No one needs SEAL Team 6 SEALs — and ones with 20-plus years of experience — to train them to go to BUD/S. Yes, they would clearly be sufficient to do the training, surely, but in no way are they necessary to prepare someone for the training.
In fact, the absolute best person to train someone to go to BUD/S would be a successful BUD/S graduate who had completed the course within the last 5 years. Why wasn’t that the contract qualification? Why require someone who has — by definition — been out of BUD/S for at least 5 years, and possibly as many as 20? There is some kind of disconnect there.
Now, I am not trying to spin up some conspiracy theory, or to imply that the Saudis are really looking for contractors to do something altogether different than preparing Saudis for BUD/S. All I am saying is, they are either being completely naive, and falling prey to the mystique of needing a “Tier One operator” to teach their guys basic stuff, and are thus willing to shell out a ton of money for it; or, they are cloaking this contract request in seemingly innocuous language, and have other plans in mind for the contractors. Honestly, either scenario is completely plausible.
who gives a crap we trained bin laden and his group at Bragg/camp mackall
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I love how there are people passing along “secret codes” in the comment section of a civilian website about the US military.
“David” is a schizophrenic shut-in or someone with such a boring life that they have to LARP as former military/IC on an anonymous website.
Remember the USS Liberty!
They want their own Seal team 6 for precision infiltration strikes or abductions. In and out done.
The Top Tiers will train for Buds school while weeding out flunkies. Picking the best people for a few Saudi Sand Team 6 teams . Aloha 1 , Bravo 1 .
Interesting article Fru. Definitely something to think about. I’m wondering how many Tier 1 Admirals are out there. You’d think a former BUD/S instructor would be ideal.
I can think of 3 off the top of my head but it sounds like they are describing 1 of them in particular.
Which fire department are you a captain of, that’s all I am curious about haha.
Russell Nelson born 9.9.1924 or 10Elul on Hebrew Civic calendar 12.10
Father dead 10Kislev 1990 3rd month 10th day Osama bin Laden bday
Mother dead 7.19.1983 or 9Av 9th day 11th month 911, 719 is also,Satanic Memo release
day 7.19.1990
Daughter born 1.29 and daughter dead 1.29 which on calendar 1.29 is 4 months 19
days after 9.11 or 1.29 is 9 months 11 days after 4.19.
Gordon Hinkley died 1.27.2008 like buildings 1,2 and 7 fell while he was leader
Father died 6.5.1961 or 21Sivan 9.21 or 9two1s backwards 1.29
Mother died 11.9.1930 119
Ezra Taft Benson born 29 Av or 11.29 dead 21Sivan or 9.21
Son Reed dead 20Av or 11.20 a 112 and OG 911
Spencer Kimball dead 21Chesvan or 2.21 same day as uncle Fred Trump.. same year
1985. Son Andrew died 1.12.2020 a 112 OG 911. Daughter dead 9.14. 2018 a
backwards 4.19
Harold B Lee daughter died 4.19.2000. Okc federal bomb and Waco 4.19.
Joseph Fielding Smith born 7.19.1876… 719 is a recurring theme. His last wife died
12AV or 129. His son George died 11Chesvan or 112 OG 911
David O McKay son died 19 Tevet or 4.19 in 1975
Dallin H Oaks mom died 6.27.1980 same day as Joseph Smith but on Hebrew
calendar it was 19Tevet or 419.
Joseph Smith dad died 9.14 a reverse 4.19. His brother Alvin born 2.11 a reverse 112
and dead 11.19 lots of 119 in Mormon elite.
Bruce McConkie born 729 or 19Av 11.19 and died 4.19 or 29Nisan a 7.29 his bday on
Hebrew calendar. Bruce died while talking to me in Coronado, Ca 419 1985 and
Cursed the okc and Arkansas federal building. Okc bomb was 4.19 ten years later
1995. Bruce brother Oscar McConkie the chief Mormon lawyer of his era died 11.2
2020 a 112 OG 911. Bruce had a baby Bruce, Jr who died 11.2 1938 another 112
Bruce dad died 19Nisan or 719 the satanic memo day on Hebrew calendar.
David Bednar dad died 1.26.1994. Flip 6to9 is theme going back to Porter Rockwell
Born 96 and John D Lee dead 69 exactly 9 months and 11 days after Brigham
Young. 1.26 is a hidden 129 and codes for 419 and 911. Bednar mom died 10.3.
1988 a backwards 3.10 Osama bin laden bday
Quentin Cook dad also died 1.26 in 2003. Another hidden 419 and 911 code.
D Todd Christofferson was a clerk for Nixon lawyers during Watergate and still brags
about it, his dad died 4.22 in 2014 like Nixon died 422 in 1994. His mom died 10.19
2011 another 119, 911.
Ronald Rasband mother died 3.24 a reverse 4.23 Tim McVeigh bday in 2010
Gary Stevenson mother died 7.18 the day before 719 in year 2016 which was
12Tamuz or 1012 112 OG 911
Dale Renlund mother died 11.12 1994.. on Hebrew calendar after sunset that is
10Kislev or Osama bday 3.10
Ulisses Soares born 19Tishrei or 119 on Hebrew calendar after sunset option
Robert D Hales died 12Tishrei or 112 the OG 911 on Hebrew calendar also has a son
named Gerald Rulon who died 1.19 in 1990.
Russell M Ballard mother died 9.3 1983 or 25Elul 12.25 Xmas code as his sister died
12.25 in 2018. Chaundra died peacefully in her sleep. She was born 3.1 just add a
Zero for Osama bday code 3.10 her husband John Larson died 4.19 2015 Betty
Ballard died 2.11 1990 a 112 911.
Jeffrey Holland mother died 1.3 2011 if reverse 3.1 and add zero you also get Osama
Code. Holland brother Scott Bentley born 9.14 1952 a backwards 419 and unlisted
Death day.
David B Haight son David Jr dead 9.21 2020 a 129 and a 921 911 and Hebrew is
3Tishrei 3.1 like Osama 3.10 bday
Hugh B Brown daughter Carol died 4.15 2017 or 19Nisan 7.19
Please explain.
I’m simply a retired Jewish man.
The information you posted has really perked my interest.
Thanks
Gary, please pass on the encryption jacket if you get a response…
Let them train their own. Don’t trust them.
I agree I woulsnt trust them
I wouldn’t trust them, either. (10 year Navy Vet.)
Guys I wouldn’t worry either way. They could take BUDS all they want. The new face of warfare won’t be fought on foot anyway. It will be won by the tribe that has the most technologically advanced toys.
I don’t like the idea either…let them train their own people.
This isn’t new…I mean in this case they’re looking for Top talent to train these guys but I remember when I was in Boot Camp and 75 we had Iranian sailors there that we were training actually going to Boot Camp
Don’t even bother training them. I don’t trust them.
Agree.
I don’t like the idea of a Saudi taking BUD/S training. PO2 ANDERSON
Or maybe they are interested in collecting info on Tier 1 organizations and BUD/S instructor is a cover for action to get them there. Similar scenarios have occurred with other SOF units in the past several years, especially with non FVEY/non-NATO countries that we still have a good relationship with when it comes to rogue actors in the Middle East…hint hint*