Much of what DEVGRU, or the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, is and does remains classified and unknown. What is known is that they were formed in the mid 1990's after SEAL Team Six, the Navy's Counter-terrorism unit was disbanded. DEVGRU was created after Richard Marcinko, the original commander of ST6 published a series of books that outlined the history and purpose of the original Seal Team. According to the US Navy, DEVGRU was formed to create, test, and evaluate new tactics, weapons, and equipment.

However, with the disbanding of ST 6, the Navy was left without a maritime counter terrorist unit, although SEAL Team 8 was tasked with maritime deployments and takedowns. Recent rumors have appear to confirm that DEVGRU is actually a CT unit created (although current officers will deny its existence) to replace the lime-light stricken ST6. This is born out, in no small significance, by the structure surrounding DEVGRU. While under the command of NAVSPECWARGRU (Navy Special Warfare Group, DEVGRU is also a component of JSOC, with other such units as the US Army's 1st SFOD-D and 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR), both units that list counter-terrorism in their primary activities.

What weapons and equipment DEVGRU uses has not been revealed. However, given their SEAL parentage it is a safe bet that the HK MP5 is used mainly in CQB and the Colt M4 is the primary assault weapon. The SOCOM pistol has been issued but it is reported that the Sig-Sauer P-228 is preferred for personal defense.

DEVGRU is thought to consist of around 400 operators and support personnel, divided into four combat teams and one training team. The combat assault teams are Red, Gold, and Blue, with Gold being the premier assault team. Gray team is the transportation unit containing the SDVs and boats used to transport the assault teams. Green Team consists of the new operators who have just joined DEVGRU and are in training. Each operator inside the Teams has a specialty, but all are experts in underwater and HALO insertion.

They are also rumored to have their own helicopter assets within the unit. 18 HH-60 helicopters optimized for CSAR are said to exist within the unit, but I doubt this. Maybe one or two, but the navy has only 18 HH-60s in two reserve squadrons so it makes little sense to me to have 18 in one top-secret unit.

And yet another "I love ACE boxed sets I have to do something" figure. The nude figure is yet another Dragon World War II figure I pulled from my box of nude figures.  I sculpted the beard on with Apoxie clay and painted repainted him with acrylics and a little pastel for the cheek and forehead accents.  I added the pair of sunglasses, the neck wrap, and some extra clips and then weathered everything all up with acrylics and pastels.  This is a rather simple figure to do because ACE did all the real work by providing detail accurate items, uniforms and accessories for one of America's best elite military forces.