He deployed less than two years later to Vietnam with SEAL Team 2. Marcinko, the son of Pennsylvania coal miner, enlisted in the Navy in 1958 after dropping out of high school, according to his 1992 best-selling autobiography “Rogue Warrior.” He completed underwater demolition training as an enlisted sailor before commission via Officer Candidate School in 1965.
His family confirmed his death at his home in Fauquier County, Va., in a message on Twitter. We send our deepest sympathies to his family, teammates, and friends.” “‘Demo Dick’ is considered the United States’ premier counterterrorism operator. “Dick Marcinko played a very unique part in SEAL history, leaving a legacy like no other,” the SEAL Museum wrote in a Facebook post Sunday announcing his death.
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Marcinko, known as “Demo Dick,” commanded SEAL Team 6 for about three years, retired from the Navy in 1989 as a commander and went on to write a series of nonfiction and fiction books based on the Navy SEALs.
Hayward hand-picked Marcinko to stand up the new SEAL team, according to the Fort Pierce, Fla., museum.
With the Navy needing an elite unit dedicated to counterterrorism after the Pentagon’s failure to rescue American hostages in Iran in 1980, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas B. Richard Marcinko, who founded the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 after earning accolades as a SEAL leader during two tours in Vietnam, died Christmas Day at age 81, the National Navy SEAL Museum has announced.
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