SEALs in WWII?

[scm77]

I didn't know to post this here or in the history section but...
http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/100291.jpg
Did they have Navy SEALs in WWII? Can someone explain this picture?

Note: I didn't edit the picture or add any of the writing I just found it.

[Fintin]

he could have been a seal in nam....unlikely, but it could have happend....he would have been at the youngest in his 40s but hey...who knows

[SEALInTheMaking]

They didnt have SEALs yet. They had UDT's. Underwater Demolition Teams. Basically the predicessor of the SEALs. Theyd swim onto landing beaches before invasions and prep the beaches for the attacks. They took samples of the beach, measured the depth in certain areas, and destroyed obsticles.

[Secret Squirrel]

he could have been a seal in nam....unlikely, but it could have happend....he would have been at the youngest in his 40s but hey...who knows

Just to spam some information...Mr. Rogers (yea the guy with the sweaters) was a navy seal in Nam.

[ChuckThunder]

I didn't know to post this here or in the history section but...
http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/100291.jpg
Did they have Navy SEALs in WWII? Can someone explain this picture?

Note: I didn't edit the picture or add any of the writing I just found it.

First off, I can't tell if that is infact a SEAL Trident.

Enlisted guys had silver Tridents through much of the Vietnam war. Officers, gold. They're all gold now. He may have been in a while.

[Scrim]

he could have been a seal in nam....unlikely, but it could have happend....he would have been at the youngest in his 40s but hey...who knows

Just to spam some information...Mr. Rogers (yea the guy with the sweaters) was a navy seal in Nam.

Really? I always heard this

1999: "Interesting side note about Fred Rogers. He was the number three Marine sniper in the Vietnam war. And one of the reasons he always wears long sleeve clothing is because his arms are covered in tattoos."




None of its true, Its an urban legend. Sorry.

[scm77]

he could have been a seal in nam....unlikely, but it could have happend....he would have been at the youngest in his 40s but hey...who knows

Just to spam some information...Mr. Rogers (yea the guy with the sweaters) was a navy seal in Nam.

Cool. "It's a beatuiful day in the neighbourhood, to kill some Commies!" rofl

[ChuckThunder]

he could have been a seal in nam....unlikely, but it could have happend....he would have been at the youngest in his 40s but hey...who knows

Just to spam some information...Mr. Rogers (yea the guy with the sweaters) was a navy seal in Nam.

Really? I always heard this

1999: "Interesting side note about Fred Rogers. He was the number three Marine sniper in the Vietnam war. And one of the reasons he always wears long sleeve clothing is because his arms are covered in tattoos."




None of its true, Its an urban legend. Sorry.

Yeah, I heard that too. The tats were the faces of the men he killed. :lol:

[Scrim]

rofl

[Secret Squirrel]

rofl

looks like I was suckered...oh the humanity....ah well, better to learn this way than in a room full of people in the real world. :backhand:

[scm77]

:cantbeli:

[Fintin]

wasnt mr rodgers a minister?

[Scrim]

I believed it for a while too. Also John Denver was the #2 Marine Sniper in Vietnam. ;)

[scm77]

From snopes.com


Fred Rogers served as a sniper or as a Navy Seal during the Vietnam War, with a large number of confirmed kills to his credit.
This same rumor has often been applied to boyish country singer-songwriter John Denver (among others), and it's just as false when told of Fred Rogers. Not only did Fred Rogers never serve in the military, there are no gaps in his career when he could conceivably have served in the military — he went straight into college after high school, he moved directly into TV work after graduating college, and his breaks from television work were devoted to attending the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963) and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Child Development. Moreover, Fred Rogers was born in 1928 and was therefore too old to have enlisted in the armed services by the time of America's military involvement in Vietnam.

Fred Rogers always wore long-sleeved shirts and sweaters on his show to conceal the tattoos on his arms he obtained while serving in the military.
As noted above, Fred Rogers never served in the military, and he bore no tattoos on his arms (or any other part of his body). He wore long-sleeved shirts and sweaters on his show to maintain an air of formality — although he was friendly with the children in his viewing audience and talked to them on their own level, he was most definitely an authority figure on a par with parents and teachers (he was Mister Rogers to them, after all, not Fred), and his choice of dress was intended to establish and foster that relationship.

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/mrrogers.asp