SEAL Team 6 Raid in Yemen | December 2014
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- In December 2014, SEAL Team 6, embarked on a handful of Osprey Tiltrotor Aircraft, launched a night-time raid in Yemen to rescue an American hostage named Luke Somers, who had been missing since September 2013.
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Not all Ops have happy endings. Rest in peace gentlemen.
I am hoping for one on "Operation Freshman", the prelude to the Vemork action in Telemark during WWII.....
Top comment spoilers, hate them lol
Or are truthful. We all know Bin Laden isn't dead
@@scaggit I, for one, did not know Bin Laden isn't deadf Can you please foreward your evidence documentation...?
Gave them the best chance of survival possible & they almost did, that’s all we can do at the end of the day
I can guarantee seal team 6 also took these losses very hard. They absolutely hate losing hostages. They hold them selves to a very high level of responsibility when lives are lost.
@@GarrishChristopherRobin777 I know
They should have given them the money and after that hunt them down and take the money back!!
@@LexlutherVII sounds pretty good if you ask me
@@nungbear1398 Yeah, and the hostages would have been saved and unharmed
@@LexlutherVII but that’s the thing…US has a non-negotiable policy for hostage situation, with the logic that negotiating with terrorists will only incite more kidnappings.
If a US citizen is taken hostage, it is almost guaranteed that they will face the wrath of US forces.
I love your channel. RIP to the hostages :c
Excellent videos, keep it up!
Was definitely Marines flying the birds that day. Can confirm.
You were there?
@@tylerharrell3237 yes lol
@@elislostinthewoods niceeeee
Speed is usually the key, and especially so in hostage rescue.
Great channel mate
this is how it's done, fast and without any hesitation
Need to correct you: US intelligence knew about the South African who was kidnapped, in fact the US intelligence knew that South Africans were negotiating the release of their man as money was already gathered to be paid the following day. US intelligence used this as an opportunity to raid the compound and rescue their men and endanger the South African... This was purposeful and international then later pretended they were not aware of that arrangement.
Rest in peace Mr Korkie 🇿🇦
So disappointing. Those Seals have to live the rest of their lives knowing they failed. Replaying the visuals. It's brutal when it goes wrong.
atleast the guy wasn't beheaded by these savages. non like the other hostiges of ISIS until now they are not found.
Wonder if this channel will also highlight the stunning tactical success of the Al-Majalah camp attack or the Raid on Yakla o7 back our brave soldiers always
I suppose dropping bombs and murdering innocent people is your definition of civilised then?
Why did they do that callout?! Damn.
Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to set up roadblocks around the target village?!…the SEALS may as well have just rung ahead and told them they’re coming 🙄…I hope the debrief aided in changing their tactics for future rescues.
Amazing that you're just a commentator on a UA-cam comments section and not inside the room laying down the tactics for these operations. It's almost like they know wtf they're doing and you don't.
Hindsight 20-20, it probably would have been better to do an HALO into it with Ospreys for extraction but this is 7 years after the fact knowing the outcome they thought that was the plan and went with it. All they can do is move on and learn from it…
@@Sycophants_should_suffer …because military ops are never failures right?! 🙄 - even SF units fuck up, I bet they don’t employ this tactic anymore though.
The op shouldn't have even been conducted by seals, they should have called in the CIA for this one.
@@shadowrealm6013 another armchair expert.
That sucks must of been head shots what a shame that goes to show there is real evil in this world and people need to open there eyes
It was the Marine Squadron of V22s.
How do you know
@@aaroneasow865 I know the Marines that carried the bodies into medical on the ship that night.
Ospreys are so fucking cool. So awesome they finally worked all the kinks out of that (I mean, years ago) and it's a workhorse now. Just like the F-35 eventually will be. Just takes an entire generation, hahaha.
They still shake everything and everyone inside them to shit
@@toad3222 Yeah, my friend mentioned that actually. That they vibrate a lot especially near the nacelles. Said he'd always get an itchy ass in them. Such is life. That energy/vibration has to go somewhere. I'd assume it has to with the fact how the engines tilt, so they're not "fixed." So there's a lot of rattle that translates to fuselage.
bit of a shit one they both got murdered hmm gutted. not every story has a good ending :(
They should have given them the money and after that hunt them down and take the money back!!
But why on earth would want to go individually to a place like Somali. Do they know that those areas are littered with a whole bunch of terrorist in every nook and corner? Each and every respective govt should forbid their citizens to enter such zones without special permission.
Because people are free to make their own decisions complete with consequences
Because they think the whole world is a peaceful beautiful place when it is far from it … daft people getting beheaded left right and centre in these countries
@@TerryWhisk What consequences? Most of the time these abductors get their ransom paid or the Gov has so send in Soldiers to free them.
@@SwissMarksman the consequences of traveling to a volatile dangerous region are generally being killed or captured. Many people are killed before being rescued or are simply never heard from again.
"Navy Seals try to rescue captured CIA operative."
Would not surprise me in the slightest, perhaps if we quit interfering in Yemen then our citizens wouldn’t be targeted but unfortunately we all know that’ll never happen no matter how many lives are lost, foreign or domestic.
That’s not the title can you read
I swear no other channel makes me as excited when I see a notification
Same here
Same
I agree
For real
👍 yup I love this show as an Afghanistan Vet.🇵🇷🇺🇸 Bringing back great memories...I wish I could go B A C K !
Mr Korkie was my Biology teacher in high school. Nothing less than a phenomenal person with a massive heart. He was a true Genteleman and will always be remembered. RIP Mr Korkie
The painful part is that the money to release him was going to be paid the following morning which had been gathered by his family, friends and Gift of the Givers.
I pooped today
Question, Why did they go to a known terrorist hideout country? So dum. Horny wins vs common sense.
@@Bling_The_Visual_Creator it's against policy for the United States to negotiate with terrorists. That's not up to his family members unfortunately and once we start paying ransoms they'll be a lot more kidnappings.
@@echoromeo384 - Mr Korkie was not a US citizen. South African citizens working with an NGO were negotiating for his release and the negotiated amount was going to be paid the following morning. His wife was very happy that he would come back home...In that excitement, the White House decided to storm in to rescue their citizen and in the process, the South African was killed....it was selfish and reckless, Mr Korkie's never got home alive.
Unfortunately it was being spotted 100m from the building that alerted the hostage takers. They had time to get their act together. Very sad ending but unfortunately not all hostage rescues go to plan. BIG respect to our armed forces heros ❤️❤️❤️
They should have given them the money and after that hunt them down and take the money back!!
@@LexlutherVII and then take all the ones to Hooters
@@realitycheck4158 which ones?? the foe or the friend?😄
It was being spotted that alerted the hostage takers? Thanks captain obvious 🙄
@@Sycophants_should_suffer 😘
Please do the Jessica Buchanan rescue mission. Operation Barras would be cool as well. Thank you for another great vid.
It must be very frustrating to rescue hostages only to see them die on their way home…very sad
All the best to everyone
Definitely was not the 352nd they fly CV-22 (AFSOC) version of the Osprey. It was the Marines MV-22s who took them into Yemen.
You think the NSW guys would risk getting inside an MV?
@@sct8326 Already did in Yemen they had to Call in an air strike to destroy one. 💀
@@sct8326 yes
@@sct8326 all the time dude, been doing it.
@@sct8326 well, it’s what happened soooo
Incredibly sad that the hostages didn’t make it, and rip to the 2 Yemini civilians who tragically lost their lives. The Seals are extremely professional at what they do, and their bravery in service is legendary; this outcome must have been hard to take, they did everything they could
there was no mention of any kidnappers caught or wounded and recovered, The Team are clearly accurate shooters, Keep it that way Guys.
Dam that was a tough one to watch.
🤣
So to Monday morning quarterback here when you showed the Yemeni setting up the road blocks I immediately thought "if they are stopping people from coming or going someone Is going to be alerted that the military is doing something close by so everyone would be on their toes"RIP gentlemen and bless the boys for trying
Yeah I was thinking the same thing. MARSOC or another SEAL team would have been able to provide more covert security
I was surprised the US would allow the Yemeni establishment any information about their mission at all so I did a bit more digging about this. The official account is that the rescue force was compromised approximately 100 metres from the objective by a terrorist who was outside to relieve himself. He was alerted, mid-stream, by dogs barking at the SEAL lead element. The delay was no more than 10 minutes but during that time a terrorist was observed by a drone to enter the building the hostages were kept in, then running back out and escaping with an unknown number of fellow jihadists. Additionally, according to officials, Mr Korkie died on the Ospray during the exfil, and Mr Somers died when the aircraft was landing on USS Makin Island.
Well what the fuck are these guys doing in Yemen in the first place?!
Having the Yemeni army so heavily involved prob the reason they kept getting set up.
And how did Yemeni civilians get injured in the firefight - makes no sense. Villagers were randomly wandering into a firefight? Rumors may have gotten out through the roadblocks.
I'm sorry to the loss of life.. RIP, Sir Luke Somers and Sir Pierre...We done the Best We could to save the innocent lives and to freed the hostages..
What business did this American have in Yemen? He should have known his life was on danger, so why be their. No sane person would be in his shoes.
I think it’s important to cover operations which don’t go according to plan so we can dissect and learn from them.
I’ve never understood why during raids by special forces, the hostage takers don’t just kill the hostages to make the mission a failure. There always seem to be a small amount of time where SOF groups have to proceed tactically and use explosives or small gunfire to proceed to the target, which results in their immediate presence being known to the Opfor.
If you kill the hostage you lose ALL bargaining power. It's quite simple.
Well in this case, the hostage takers *did* mortally wound the hostages
This happens frequently. And there's a good chance one of these guys was DOA but unreported as such If you read enough mission debriefs, you'll notice a statistically supernatural tendency for casualties to become mid-evac fatalities. That is, reports are often written to cushion the blow of fatalities, falsely suggesting a time of death "on the return trip" rather than at the incident site in some combination of denial, ass-covering, coping mechanism for those involved, and a misplaced sense of greater dignity if the casualty at least got out alive for a time.
"Thoughts and prayers" rhetoric aside, if the US govt is responding to your abduction and ransom with boots on the ground, that means your life isn't particularly valuable. An entire 8-man SEAL squad is worth 800k USD in death benefits payable by the US govt, total. The mistake made by ransom-takers is placing a price per head on the order of magnitude of millions rather than tens of thousands.
@@jeremycahill4662 ?????
We have to obey the Saudis otherwise our oil companies who get $200 billion a year in free money might pout.
I really like the music that is used in
the Liveth For Evermore videos. Not overly dramatic. May I ask what music it is?
I think he lists it in the description
If your an American in the Middle East you got have got to be careful. You’re a massive target
Always killing it bro. Loved what you do from the beginning. Keep getting it🙏🤘👊🇺🇸
Nice try, good practice and training...but no joy. Why do morons like Somers insist on going to places like Yemen ? It puts not only their lives at risk but the lives of others results in massive expenditures of time, money, and material but worst of all it only serves to encourage hostage takers. They should have left Somers to his chosen fate.
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Great vid love it! Can you make one on operation freedom sentinel in and the night mission that took out isis-k emir in April 27th 2017 I believe the KIA were sgt josh rodgers and sgt Cameron H Thomas
Soooo mission failure. What was the AAR? Seals always learn from their mistakes and failures. DOPE. That would be a great follow up video but I know it can't be public.
We don’t hear much about Yemen in the news
To any Europeans not in the know, U.S. Seal Team 6 is probably our most elite group of soldiers we have. Marsoc raiders army rangers and green berets are also badass as hell.
For the US Navy, yes, ST-6/DEVGRU is the premier Tier 1 unit. For the US Army, its Delta Force on par with DEVGRU, and then next to Delta, there's the Army's Intelligence Support Activity aka 'The Activity', Task Force Orange, Gray Fox......the ISA has numerous code names that get switched around. Intelligence Support Activity is regarded as the premier 'special reconnaissance' unit of the US Army, but they are classed as 'Tier 1' and stand alongside DEVGRU & Delta in the SOCOM chain.
Trusting the Yeminis was stupid. Obviously, they tipped off the hostage takers.
Nah I'm sure the 5 road blocks that the seals asked for was a big red flag and the yemeni Government hates terrorists just as much as the US.
@@shadowrealm6013That may be true, but it was my experience in Baghdad, that if you wanted to keep an operation a secret, you never told the local authorities.
Could you do a video on the defense of that Ukrainian steel plant
Great video man keep up the good content
Thanks mate, subscribed and always watch and comment.
I thought many people get captured as failed hostages, then get killed in shit places? or is it real rare and countries would put proper effort into saving each hostage?
I was in Theater during this mission in communications support. Our operations center followed the mission progress and each person on duty was deeply saddened by the result. Even not having been directly involved we all suffer remembering those we tried to save still today.
Incinerate kabab.
weak seals should've send Polish GROM or british SAS\SBS
RIP to Luke somers (1981-2014) and Pierre corkie
Not gonna finish watching this I already saw when I was in the oceianna
Wasn’t Dj Shipley apart of this operation?
Sounds like someone in Yemeni army gave them a heads up. I bet a politician said involve Yemen. The teams would be like hell no don’t give Yemen any heads up
More Delta and DEVGRU !!
has there ever been a time when these groups received their random from governments?
Yes, many times. Only the US has a no negotiation policy with the terrorist
yeh with islamic state some years back, a bunch of hostages from various european countrys and the US where hostage, everyone paid up except the US and UK
The US doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
Yeah other countries are more likely to do it than the United States though it seems
We never pay Ransom
Am I the only that tried finding these places on google maps?
Very sad, but a successful rescue was probably vanishingly unlikely. But they would have executed anyway so a slim chance beats no chance.
If I'm taken hostage, I still don't want my government negotiating with terrorists. It's about the next guy.
John A Chapman heróic sacrifíce in operation anaconda in 2002 next episode my sugestion friends
Where GSG9 video? :()
Do the failed DEVGRU operation of linda norgrave
Seals are over rated
You don’t need to put a space between overrated
Hopefully they left 0 survivors in that settlement before leaving.
Great content
At least these men passed in friendly arms and not a dirt floor in the arm pit of the world
RIP
🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🙏🏽💙
God rest their souls
God bless every person who has and is serving our country. Godspeed
Yemen is one of the most dangerous places in the world and it certainly was back than as well. I would never order a rescue mission to save some western civilians who were actually dumb enough to go there expecting to come out unharmed. Whoever is taking that kind of unnecessary risk has to be aware that he or she is on their own entirely.
You should do a story on the SY Quest
RIP Luke and Pierre...
Yemen is hardcore country they knew how to fight
Algorithm.
YES FINALLY!
thanks
Keep em’ coming!
Was DELTA on strike? Why was the mission assigned to the navy donkeys?
I think areas of the world are divided up between the two, for instance, Delta had Iraq in GWOT and Devgru had Afghanistan.
@@capnrob97 I would recommend such division of responsibilities to occur xxx miles from feet wet, so that each unit could play the game they know best.
@@greywolf1155 honestly the CIA should have been the ones to carry out this mission not seal team 6 or delta
@@shadowrealm6013 Maybe. I tend to forget that this criminal organisation is ours ;))
I think it would be worse outcome for the Delta.. There may even be Delta casualties
Does DEVGRU’s Gray Squadron also fly? Are these guys flying modified Osprey’s like AFSOC does?
Do they have fancy sneaky squirrel VTOLs? Are Ospreys the cover?
🤔
Even though Gray Squadron is a mobility squadron, their primary focus and specialty is maritime boat insertion stuff. So, no, they’re not going to be piloting aircraft like that.
No, just normal ospreys
Yeah you left out barack's allah hu akbar at the end of that
Who knows, Barry might have let the kidnappers know the Seals were coming. After all, those muslims stick together.
The two hostages and the two murdered innocent Yemeni civilians would still be alive if the US had simply paid the ransom for the release of the hostages.
Doubtful, you really think monetary gain was their only motivation, and they’d simply let them go? Had the ransom been paid on behalf of the US, that would’ve likely incentivized them further to keep them as hostages for more absurd ransom requests.
They probably spent the same amount of money on the operations instead of just paying
If we paid them they would keep doing it cause they know it’s a easy dollar. Have to stand your ground somewhere
That’s what having no backbone looks like. Doing that will only add on to the problem in the long run. The problem was having Yemeni Troops involved. I’m sure many of them were corrupt and I’m also sure one of them was spotted and that’s why the insurgents were ready.
@@tysumm Yeah let's stand our ground, inside the country of Yemen, which never did us any real harm. Stand our ground to the tune of 100,000+ dead civilians during Saudi Arabia's war of aggression
Not really sure why anyone from a non Arab country would travel to Yemen, Iraq, etc. It’s either pure naivety or they were working on behalf of one of their government’s agencies. In the later case I can understand mounting a rescue operation, in the former they and their families should have no expectation of being rescued.
Bad planning, poor execution and faulty intelligence! I would expect better from the seals! You should be ashamed, you as much got them men killed as if, you shot them yourself. I respect and honor our service men and women, but damn that was awful and 2 innocent people are dead because of it, I hope you can live with that.
"I respect and honor our service men and women"
No you don't.
Why would you expect any correct planning from Barry for anything ?
Alright, first n that.
Seconde
Third
WHy didnt they pay the ransom? They print endless money anyways.. this is shameful
Interesting mission. What are the top fifteen SEAL books you could recommend about this event?
Hey come on, be fair. A couple of those are biographies.
15?!?!?!?!
The mission fail because they didn't use the black hawk helicopter?
Totally didn’t expect the yemem gov was on our side
We support the United States but the shit ton of insurgents we have in yemen stain our image towards the rest of the world.
Why does it always have to end badly with Devgru. Prayers for the two dead men, but they had nothing to do in an active war zone.
Don't forget the 2 dead civilians
@@Birch12430 I don’t recall hearing about dead civilians but I might have missed it. If that’s true, yet again, I don’t understand why this always happens when Devgru is sent.
@@billmcraven666 what are you talking about? They have way more successful HR than unsuccessful. Even the one that Ed Byers got the MOH for was a success. There has been 2 that went bad. The Jessica buchannon rescue was fucking flawless. 7 dead hostage takers out of 8 and got multiple hostages off that objective. You’re just wrong dude. Go hop on deltas nuts some more.
You’ll never know about 99% of DEVGRUs ops or any Tier 1 unit for that matter. It just happens that Seal Team 6 is the most publicized. When’s the last time you heard about a Delta or SAS op? Almost never. These troops are constantly operating all over the world and you’ll never hear about 99% of it. Every unit has successes and failures.
@@tennesseecurtiss5741 That’s what I’m talking about, we’re not supposed to know even 99% of what they do, but with ST6 we always hear about their ops and people Bragg about them. But when you do some research, like this video, you see that they had a lot of failures and ik it happens, but why theirs are always leaked somehow. That’s my point, I’m not saying they r bad, they r the most elite mfs you can have alongside sas, delta and others.
Back when we used to have a POTUS who believed in the constitution and was actually intelligent.
LOL... Barack Obama and constitution in the same sentence 😂😂
@@bryanvansaalt3287 Obama was pretty shit but at least he didn't try and overturn an election lol. Maybe one day the US will have some decent leaders
@@thenateo1610 If that makes you comfortable...
@@bryanvansaalt3287 Should make everyone comfortable if there's someone who can atleast make coherent sentences and doesn't try to violently overturn an election.
Are you seriously talking about OBAMA in that sense??? LMFAOOOOO!!! We are where we are today as a country BECAUSE of Obama! He did absolutely NOTHING in 8 years except cause division in this country!
Damn fools. Some officer got railed for this I’m sure. No way you can survive command of a bloody disaster.