national museum: 30th Annual Muster at the National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum - 10/16/15 07:46 AM
On Friday, November 6th, the 30th Annual Navy SEAL Muster will kick off a weekend of activities.  From demonstrations to a 5k on the beach to special guests speakers.
On 6 June 1943, the Naval Combat Demolition Unit (NCDU) training school was established at Ft. Pierce, Florida and organized by LCDR Draper Kauffman. He assembled volunteers from the Bomb and Mine Disposal School, Washington, DC (which he organized), and the Civil Engineering Corps and Naval Construction Corps (Seabees) School at Camp Peary near Williamsburg, Virginia to fill the first training classes. 
Before the base was closed in 1946, some 140,000 men, 3,500 of … (1 comments)