Richard Marcinko

History
Richard “Dick” Marcinko (born November 21, 1940), is a retired Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam veteran. He was the first Commanding Officer of SEAL Team Six and Red Cell. After retiring from the Navy, he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker.

During the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, Marcinko was one of two Navy representatives for a Joint Chiefs of Staff task force known as the TAT (Terrorist Action Team). The purpose of the TAT was to develop a plan to free the American hostages held in Iran which culminated in Operation Eagle Claw. In the wake of the debacle, the Navy saw the need for a full-time dedicated counter-terrorist team and tasked Marcinko with its design and development.

Marcinko was the first commanding officer of this new unit. At the time, the Navy had only two SEAL teams. Marcinko purportedly named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse other nations, specifically the Soviet Union, into believing that the United States had three other SEAL teams that they were unaware of. He personally selected the unit's members from across the US Navy's special operations community, including a special counter-terrorist tactics section of SEAL Team Two, codenamed MOB-6. SEAL Team Six would be the Navy's premier counter-terrorist unit, like its Army counterpart Delta Force. While typically a two-year command in the Navy at the time, Marcinko commanded SEAL Team Six for three years, from August 1980 to July 1983.

After relinquishing command of SEAL Team SIX, Marcinko was tasked by Vice Admiral James "Ace" Lyons, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, with the design of a unit to test the Navy's vulnerability to terrorism. This unit was the Naval Security Coordination Team OP-06D, unofficially named Red Cell. In 1984, Marcinko hand-picked twelve men from SEAL Team Six and one from Marine Force Recon.

This team tested the security of naval bases, nuclear submarines, ships, civilian airports, and an American embassy. Under Marcinko's leadership, the team was able to infiltrate seemingly impenetrable, highly-secured bases, nuclear submarines, ships, and other purported "secure areas" such as Air Force One, and disappear without incident. These demonstrations showed that a vulnerable military resulted from the replacement of Marines and Air Force Security Police by contracted private security agencies often started by retired military personnel.

Marcinko has claimed, among other things, that Red Cell successfully captured nuclear devices from United States Navy facilities, and proved the viability of plans to: penetrate and attack nuclear-powered submarines; destroy subs by using them as dirty bombs; capture launch codes for nuclear weapons aboard the subs by using mild torture techniques on personnel in charge of launch codes.

Former members of Red Cell, notably Steve Hartmann and Dennis Chalker, maintain that these exercises were a cover to move SPECWAR operators around the world for covert missions against real-world terrorists.

He retired from the Navy with thirty years of enlisted and commissioned service in 1988.

He has written several books after his retirement from the US Navy.

Source: Wikipedia.

Battle vs Green Berets
'''Weapons used: C4, HK416, Gerber Mark II knife, HK Mk. 23 SOCOM and Barrett M107 rifle.'''

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

A US Embassy is being guarded by five Green Berets, each one is holding an M4A1, with a Beretta M9 on their belt holsters, an E-Tool and some M67 grenades too. Two of them are standing guard outside, at the front door, talking to each other.

On the roof of a building across the street, a Red Cell member is setting up a Barrett M107 rifle. He places the scope on it, and extends the tripod legs. He lies down, looks through the scope and sees the two Green Berets across the street at the door of the US Embassy, their leader Richard Marcinko, has selected this target to test its security. He takes aim, and pulls the trigger, a great bang is heard as a second later a bullet goes through the head of one of the Green Berets.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

The other Green Beret is surprised at this, but quickly gathers his wits, and starts dragging the dead body of his teammate inside the Embassy, as he yells out “Sniper! Sniper!” to everyone inside. Two bullets from across the street hit the door and the wall of the Embassy as the Green Beret hides back inside. Knowing that his chance to shoot down more Green Berets is over, the Red Cell member starts disarming the Barrett M107 rifle as quickly as he can, when a bullet comes right through his head from inside the US Embassy. One of the Green Berets inside the Embassy had shot him from one of the front windows, using a M24 Sniper Rifle.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

At the back of the US Embassy, Richard Marcinko and three Red Cell members are standing next to an Emergency Exit door. Each one is holding an HK416, and have a HK Mk. 23 SOCOM pistol and a Gerber Mark II knife on their belt holsters. Richard Marcinko is setting a charge of C4 on the door, “Fire in the hole!” he announces, and him and the rest of the Red Cell members take cover as Richard “Dick” Marcinko sets out the explosion. Immediately, the alarms go off inside the US Embassy, as the four remaining Green Berets inside realize that the sniper across the street was not working alone.

Three Green Berets inside the Embassy talk to each other, one of them tells to the other, “The Embassy is under attack, you two, go upstairs and guard the Ambassador.” he orders to the other two, “Yes sir!” they reply, and run up the stairs. The remaining Green Beret turns around as he sees the Sniper coming towards him, he’s still holding the M24 Sniper Rifle. “Did you see the sniper? Who’s attacking us?” asked the leader.

“He was wearing a black sky mask, they are probably terrorists, and… ARGH!” the Green Beret sniper is unable to finish as he is shot in the back by a round of bullets from Richard Marcinko and three Red Cell members, using their HK416.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

As the Green Beret sniper falls down, dead, the other takes cover behind a column in the hallway. He waits until the bullets stop hitting the column, and as Richard Marcinko and the three Red Cell members start changing the cartridges on their HK416s, he takes out an M67 grenade and throws it down the hallway and towards the Red Cell members. “Take cover!” yells Marcinko to his teammates, but he is the only one that is able to escape in time, as the M67 grenade explodes taking out the other three Red Cell members.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

The Green Beret walks carefully down the hallway, towards the three dead Red Cell members. He carefully checks them out, when suddenly Richard Marcinko comes out of a closet door, holding his HK Mk. 23 SOCOM and shooting at him. The Green Beret falls down, three bullets in his head, dead before he hit the ground.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

Richard Marcinko starts going up the stairways, as some of the walls have caught fire from the grenade explosion. Smoke is filling the place, activating the water sprinklers.

Inside the main office of the second floor, the two remaining Green Berets are inside with the Ambassador. Suddenly an explosion from another C4 charge takes out the door of the office. “Ambassador Smith, hide under the desk, quickly!” ordered one of the Green Berets. They start shooting at the smoke at the door with their M4A1s, but as the smoke clears up there is nobody there. They put down their M4A1s and take out their Beretta M9s from their holsters, knowing that they would be more useful under the shower of the fire sprinklers, and carefully walk towards the door. Seeing an empty hallway, they make a signal to each other, one goes down the hallway and the other stays behind, protecting the Ambassador.

The Green Beret going down the hallways carefully checks his surroundings, holding his Beretta M9 ready to fire at the slightest movement. He never notices Richard Marcinko walking behind him, with his Gerber Mark II knife on his hand, he stabs him from behind at the same time that he covers his mouth with the other hand. The Green Beret is slowly lowered on the wet floor as he dies. Richard Marcinko puts the Gerber Mark II knife back in his holster, as he takes out his HK Mk. 23 SOCOM again from his holster, and walks down the hall towards the Ambassador’s office.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

The remaining Green Beret sees Marcinko approaching and starts shooting at him with his Beretta M9, hiding behind the charred wall of the office door. Marcinko quickly takes cover behind a column in the hallway, and both Marcinko and the Green Beret exchange shots with their guns.

Eventually they both run out of bullets, the Green Beret takes out his E-Tool and opens it, walking carefully to the column filled with bullet holes that Marcinko was hiding behind. Before he can reach it, Marcinko jumps out from behind it, holding his Gerber Mark II knife on his hand. The Green Beret, surprised but alert, swings the E-Tool at Marcinko, who dodges it, and then stabs the Green Beret on the throat, and then pulls out the knife, twisting it for maximum damage. The Green Beret falls down as buckets of blood comes out of his neck wound, getting washed away by the fire sprinklers.

R. Marcinko and "Red Cell":

Green Berets:

Marcinko puts the knife back in its belt holster and walks towards the Ambassador’s office, knowing that he must be hiding somewhere in there. He would capture him, and show that the Embassy’s security was not good enough to stop a terrorist attack.

Winner: R. Marcinko and "Red Cell"

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