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  • My name is SB1 Nyere Palmer.

  • I am in the United States Navy.

  • My name is Jeff Prosser. I'm a petty officer

  • 2nd class and I decided to enroll in a SWCC.

  • SWCC stands for Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman.

  • We're primary insert/extract platform for SEAL platoons

  • and other special forces. They call SWCCs

  • the quiet professionals.

  • We used to refer to it as the best kept secret

  • in the Navy. I think that's what intrigues a lot

  • of us to stay in it. Because it is kinda a secret

  • society. No one really know who we are or what we do.

  • We are modern day warriors. We're fightin' for our

  • country, our beliefs. And we hold our brothers and

  • our nations lives in our hands.

  • There's nobody else out there with us. So when we fight,

  • it's basically to keep the guy next to us alive.

  • Ya know, that's the guy you're counting on if something

  • goes wrong. He's going to be the one taking that shot

  • saving your life as well as you're gonna save his life.

  • We do rely heavily on each other and it's a different

  • attitude when you get on the river. I would take a

  • bullet for any of my brothers any day. Any time,

  • any where. Never think twice about it.

  • If we're in a hot zone, if it's a high danger area,

  • we're not going to go in there blazing unless they

  • get contacted on the beach and they are taking

  • effective fire. It can get harry sometimes. But I guess

  • that's part of the challenge, you just gotta be ready

  • for it. Cause everything up here is close and personal.

  • When we're going through an area of interest, we need

  • to keep the boats as quiet as possible. Because we're

  • on a river, there are only two ways we can go. We can

  • go forward or we can go backward. We are in the worst

  • possible position to get ambushed.

  • "Wolfpack, this is witch doctor requesting an immediate

  • hot extract. Taking on heavy effective enemy fire

  • from about three o'clock position. Cease fire. Cease fire.

  • I have four packs zero wounded. Now copy."

  • "Witch doctor this is Wolfpack. Good copy on all.

  • Requesting hot extract from primary VLM. You're taking

  • fire from the three o'clock position. You have four packs,

  • no wounded. Be advised for one boat pickup. I'll be coming

  • from your North. Over. "

  • If I had to describe the SWCCs in one word, it would

  • probably be explosive. I'd go with dynamic. Firepower.

  • Persevering. Brotherhood. Brotherhood.

  • I would have to say excellence. You have to give it

  • everything you've got. And failure is not an option.

  • To define SWCC in one word, I think it's impossible.

  • "I'm two minutes out"

  • One word to describe the SWCCs, I would have to say,

  • dedication. I think dedication is what leads it all.

  • Being dedicated to your family, your friends,

  • being dedicated to you country and being dedicated

  • to the war on terrorism. That dedication will drive

  • you to do the best you can in everything you're doing.

My name is SB1 Nyere Palmer.

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