Knowledge Test

Take the new SEAL Knowledge Quiz.

Test your knowledge of the US Navy SEALs

1. What is the maximum age for entering the SEAL/SWCC program?

a. 24
b. 26
c. 28
d. 30

2. The SEAL yell is:

a. Oorah!
b. Hooah!
c. Semper Fi!
d. Hooyah!

3. The WWII predecessors of the Navy SEALs were:

a. Operational Swimmers of the OSS
b. Scouts and Raiders
c. Seabee Construction Battalions
d. All of the above.

4. What President established the U.S. Navy SEALs:

a. Harry Truman in 1945
b. Dwight Eisenhower in 1953
c. John F. Kennedy in 1962
d. Lyndon Johnson in 1968

5. The father of Naval Special Warfare was:

a. Phil H. Bucklew
b. Admiral Chester Nimitz
c. LCDR Draper Kauffman

6. The father of Naval Combat Demolition Units was:

a. Phil H. Bucklew
b. Admiral Chester Nimitz
c. LCDR Draper Kauffman

7. “SEAL” stands for:

a. “Stealth, Evasion, Ambush, Lethality”
b. “Sea, Environment, And Littoral”
c. “Sea, Air, Land”

8. The first commander of the Int’l. Space Station was a Navy SEAL:

a. True
b. False

9. “UDT” stands for:

a. “Unit, Duty, Team”
b. “Underwater Demolition Team”
c. “Unity, Duty, Tradition”

10. The first UDT submarine operation was in:

a. 1918
b. 1944
c. 1963

11. Which of the following is specifically a Navy SEAL motto:

a. “The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed in war.”
b. “The only easy day was yesterday.”
c. “SEALs don’t eat their young.”
d. “Pain is just weakness leaving your body.”

12. Navy Captain William Shepherd often used his SEAL knife to make
repairs on space station missions.

a. True
b. False

13. The SEAL Trident insignia is informally referred to as a:

a. Pitchfork
b. Lightning Bolt
c. Budweiser

14. The SEAL Trident insignia depicts all of the following except:

a. Eagle
b. Neptune’s Trident
c. Dagger
d. Pistol

15. The SEAL Team FIVE patch sold in NavySEAL.com store depicts:

a. Freddie the Frog
b. SEAL Trident
c. Sammy the SEAL