On 1 January 1962, the first SEAL Teams were officially established: SEAL Team ONE in Coronado, California and SEAL Team TWO in Little Creek, Virginia. On 6 June of that year, President John F. Kennedy made the following remarks at West Point to the U.S. Military Academy graduating class: “This is another type of warfare, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin – war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by combat; by infiltration, instead of aggression, seeking victory by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him. It is a form of warfare uniquely adapted to what has been strangely called ‘wars of liberation,’ to undermine the efforts of new and poor countries to maintain the freedom that they have finally achieved. It prays on economic unrest and ethnic conflicts. It requires in those situations where we must counter it, and these are the kinds of challenges that will be before us in the next decade if freedom is to be saved, a whole new kind of strategy, a wholly different kind of force, and therefore a new and wholly different kind of military training.” • For more on the history of the SEAL Teams, visit the @navyudtsealmuseum website and make plans to visit this year. • #JFK #Freedom #History #SEALTeams #NavySEAL #NavySEALs #SEALTeam #SEALTeam1 #SEALTeam2 #SEALTeamONE #SEALTeamTWO #SpecialOperations #Frogmen #SOF #Brotherhood #LLTB #ThinkDifferent #Adapt #Lead