What a pig. Was Ventura really a SEAL, or a Navy frogman?
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Ventura was a UDT frogman, he was never a Navy SEAL for one minute in his life. In the early 1970s, both future UDTers and future SEALs attended 6 months of Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL Training in Coronado, CA.
But after that, graduating tadpoles were sent to either a UDT or a SEAL Team. UDTers had the 5321 designator, SEALs had the 5326 designator. At the time that Ventura was a UDT man, SEALs were in combat in Vietnam, and UDTs were not.
By the 1980s, NavSpecWar planned to merge them and the UDTs became SEAL Teams. This happened when I was in Beirut. I went out with the last deploying platoon from UDT-21, and we became the first deployed SEAL Team 4 platoon in Beirut in 1983.
Ventura can call himself a "UDT-SEAL" but he was never a SEAL, 5326, for one day in his life. To be a SEAL, a BUD/S graduate had to be assigned to a SEAL Team, go through their advanced operator training (it was called SBI when I did it in 1980 at ST-2), go on a successful platoon deployment, and get through a 6-month probationary period.
Ventura did none of those things. He was a UDT man in the early 1970s, nothing wrong with that, and he is a member of the UDT/SEAL community, but he was NEVER a SEAL.
Jesse Ventura (real name: James George Janos) was a member of UDT (Underwater Demolition Teams). At the time of his service, UDT’s combat zone extended up to the beach surf line. The SEAL combat zone extended from the beach surf line inland. UDT and SEAL units had two separate missions until they were combined in the mid-1980’s.
JGJ was attached to a UDT detachment from Coronado, CA. He never saw a day of combat except for the whorehouses in Olongapo City, Philippines. The man is a despicable liar and a fraud.
Jesse Ventura is a classless wacko. He was UDT and its widely disputed as to if he was ever a SEAL. I doubt it. He says he feels unwelcome at SEAL reunions. I’m sure suing Chris Kyle’s widow will be a big help at future reunions. What a crudball!
No, he was never a SEAL