Navy SEAL Post - TadPole Jeopardy video

HooYah!!
It's Friday!
Time to Jump Into a Holiday weekend with a Navy SEAL Thing!

The Oldest FrogHog on the Web (said only in the nicest way of course) has just spent an exhausting 1/2 hour watching a video she made in 2011 about the grading the  Tadpole class final.  

It was so exhausting that I had to send out for more limes (hint). 


What are Tadpoles?

They are FrogHogs wannabees in training, and the training site is Camp FrogHog, located... Well, never mind the location, cause it is top secret.   

The 2011 class started with over 300 students.   But, then there was that vice raid and only 3 students made it.  Of course, they were the ones who were out in the bathroom putting on more "do me" lipstick.

Me?   Well, this time I was was OUTCONS (getting more limes) and wasn't available for bail  comment.

So to record this historic event, I made a video of the Tadpole Test final. 

To make the test fun (and that's what FrogHog's are all about- just ask any sailor) I made it into a game and a show .... like.... Jeopardy. 

The first part of the test was a little hard.  It was about Navy SEALs, and the Tadpoles did have a little help. 

The second part of the test was supposed to be EASY (just like Froghogs) because it was just the basics of being a FrogHog.

And all 3 Tadpoles scored.  The scoring was only for the test answers. (Scoring off camera, didn't count.)

Click on the arrow on the below video to start the test.  See if you can answer the questions before the Tadpoles. 

The Oldest FrogHog on the Web is NOT an affiliated with the TV show Jeopardy and is not a licensed representative of it. This is a homemade video for personal use.I do not own any rights to the selected snips of the TV show used in the video.

Jump the Hump Day Navy SEAL Post- Raising the Bar Funds Video

HooYah!!
It's Wednesday!
Time to Jump the Hump with a Navy SEAL Thing.

The Oldest FrogHog on the Web (said only in the nicest way of course) just made it back from the SWAMP.

I was there for another meeting of the Tadpoles aka Wannabee FrogHogs in Training.

And I tell you the "kids" were really cooking. They found a way to raise some badly needed funds to visit their favorite SEAL-owned bar- Badfrogs.

I know that many of the Tadpoles were once in the Frog Scouts. So I know that no challenge is too difficult for them, especially if it involved obtaining alcoholic beverages.

I mentioned that they should have all waited until they finished earning their FrogHog Navy Pride tattoos (not to be confused with a rivals group's Navy Pride Badge. ).

But, NOOOOOooo. They jumped right into it.

They called the op- Raising the Bar (not to be confused with a rivals group's Operation thin mint)

I made them give a complete sitrep to earn their FrogHog Navy Pride tattoo session. And they also did a" dirt dive" to add ways to improve things.

See the op sitrep video below.

It was taken using their official FrogHog Oakley Sunglass-cams.

It is only the daylight part of the op. The night part of the video was mysteriously erased, (so they told me.)

Here's the op report





( I am not affiliated with Chuck Mangione and do not own any rights to the music.  This is a one of a kind personal video made for my enjoyment and that of my friends.) 

Jump the Hump Day Navy SEAL Post - Indiana Jones Vs the Navy SEALs

It's That Time of the Week- Jump the Hump Day!
Time to Post a Navy SEAL Thing.

As the Oldest Frog Hog (said only in the nicest way of course) and the Oldest Indy-Fan on the Web, I have racked my skull to write about both Navy SEALs and Indiana Jones, today.

(…….Tick ….Tock….Smell of Wood Burning….Playing Solitaire Game on the screen…. )

Eureka! I’m going to have the Ultimate Challenge! Indiana Jones Vs The Navy SEALs.

BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS THAT - - -

Indy has lots of cool stuff. The Navy SEALs have lots of cool stuff. Indy goes everywhere. The Navy SEALs go Anywhere, Anytime. Indy has cool weapons. The Navy SEALs have ultimate firepower.

And so on, and so on.

I am letting YOU the readers decide.

Which is it? Indy or the Navy SEALs.

Here’s some stuff to measure them by below:

	Indiana Jones	Navy SEALs
2nd Assault Weapon	Bullwhip	Sig Sauer NSW P226-9-NAVY
Areas of Operations	Anywhere in the world that has ancient ruins. Europe, the Middle East, China, India, North and South America.	Anyplace, Anytime.
Body Protection	Wilson’s Leather jacket	Combat Integrated Releasable Armor System (C.I.R.A.S.) armor
Groupies	Indy Fans	Frog Hog
Gun	Smith and Wesson 1917 “Stembridge”	M4A1 Carbine
Head Gear	Fedora	Navy SEAL protec helmet,
Interesting Hobbies	Fighting snakes, bugs, rats, Nazis, Zombies, and thieves of ancient artifacts	Fighting the Bad Guys as designated by US NSW
Language Skills	Indy knows 27 (including sign language)	Foreign language training and use Naval acronyms
Manbags	The MkVII gas mask bag	Kifaru military backpack
Motto	It's Not the Years, honey, it's the mileage.	From BUD/s : The only Easy Day Was Yesterday
Name	Indiana- Named after the dog	Acronym of Sea, Air, and Land
Operating Unit	Goes solo and often with pals of : Short Round, His father, Sallah, Marcus the Museum Director, and various female love interests of Marion, Willie and Elsa.	Operate in Teams, Platoons and Squads. Always has a swim buddy. No female love interests allowed along. Ops are for males only.
Pants	based on original World War II Navy Officer's “Pinks.”	US Navy SEALs Ghillie Suit
Security Rating	Knows where the Ark of the Covenant is stored.	Must have a SECRET Clearance Status
STUFF	Has a crystal skull	Has a Golden Trident
Training	Doctor of Archeology	Masters of Unconventional Warfare
Transportation	Horses, Zeppelin, motor-cycle with side car, elephants. Rides hanging onto the periscope of a submarine,. Bi-planes, 1940’s cars, tramp steamers. Life rafts dropped from airplanes, and high speed wooden boats	SDV- SEAL Delivery Vehicle, High Speed Boats like: the MARK-Vs, Zodiacs and RIB- Ridged Inflatable Boats, Rides INSIDE Submarines, MC-130 and MH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters, The DPV -Desert Patrol Vehicles,the DUMVEE-Desert Humvee and Humvees. Zodiacs dropped from helos.

Frogs on the Beach In Operation OverLord- Navy SEAL Post

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the Oldest FrogHog on the Web (said only in the nicest way, of course!) has been doing a little reading about Frogmen on the beach during WWII.

Back then they were not known as Frogman. That moniker came later. During the war, these warriors went by the names of: the Naval Combat Demolition Units or (NCDUs), Underwater Demolition Teams (UDTs) and Scouts and Raiders.

Below is something that I remember reading regarding the historic day in June 1944- D-Day and Operation Overlord. It is totally appropriate to remember them today, on June 6th, D-Day Remembrance Day.

From the Book "The U.S. Navy SEALs- From Vietnam to Finding Bin Laden" by David Jordan.

"While the UDTs were training for their operations in the Pacific, 6 men from the 11th NCDU were sent to Britain in November 1943 to prepare for the invasion. A few weeks later, the Scouts and Raiders appeared, including Phil Bucklew, ( Bucklew is known as the Father of Naval Special Warfare) and began to conduct reconnaissance missions. Bucklew and his men took depth soundings of the planned invasion beaches. On one occasion Bucklew crawled ashore, filled a bucket with sand, and took it back to England to allow experts to test its load-bearing capacity so they could judge how well the sand on the landing beaches would be able to take the weight of tanks and other heavy vehicles.

The Germans had not been idle in preparing defenses to meet the Allied invaders, and the NCDU men grappled with the question of how they would breach some of the formidable beach obstacles, particularly a huge iron and steel construction know as the "Belgian Gate". The NCDUs needed to be able to blow the obstacle down without sending massive amounts of shrapnel fling through the air to endanger both the demolition parties and any nearby troops. The solution to the problem was discovered by Lt jg Carl P. Hagensen. He filled waterproof canvas bags with C-2 plastic explosive and then fitted the pack with a cord at one end and a hook at the other. This enabled it to be attached precisely to an obstacle. Tests on a mock-up of a Belgian Gate demonstrated that the pack worked perfectly. Sixteen such packs were fitted to the critical points of the Belgian Gate and then detonated. The Gate fell flat, just as required. The next problem was one of manpower. Six men were obviously not going to be enough and in the weeks before D-Day every available man at Ft Pierce was sent to Britain. By the end of May, 16 teams, each 13-men strong, had been trained to enable them to breach the 8 gaps in the obstacles planned for Omaha Beach and the 8 for Utah Beach.

Early in the morning of June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord began.

Phil Bucklew was one of the early participants, bobbing around in a small boat as he led the troops in toward the landing zone on Omaha Beach. Once again, Bucklew led the invasion force in (earning a Gold Star in lieu of a 2nd Navy Cross in the process) but their troubles had only just begun. The current had ensured that several of the gap assault teams had drifted off course and landed in the wrong place. Some of them found that they were the 1st men on the beach, instead of the tanks and infantry, and were cut down by defensive fire as they attempted to land. While the other teams set about destroying obstacles, some of the blasts had to be delayed as frightened soldiers attempted to take cover behind the sturdy beach defenses.

The demolition men solved this problem by setting fuses and telling the sheltering GIs that their cover would blow up in 2 minutes. This did the trick and the obstacles were removed. Other difficulties came from the loss of explosives and the NCDU men were forced to salvage German mines and add their explosives power to the C-2 that they had available. By the end of the day, 52% of NCDU men had been killed or wounded. It was the worst day in the history of naval special warfare. Despite the high cost, they had done their job well. "

Here is a link to the top secret Naval Combat Demolition Group Assignments at Omaha Beach on that day- http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/omaha/en_page.php?page=oo144
Also here's a link to NCDU on D-day post,  on the Fallen SEALs Facebook page  https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=226266997385716