ResoluteGrunt
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The show could use some US military advisers more experienced in theater-level ground combat operations. As it is, the show sometimes comes off as rather egocentric. The old "The Unit", about the US Army's Delta, was better.
For example, in the "Seal Team" episode titled "Other Lives", supposedly taking place in an active and exceedingly difficult Syrian war zone under command of a separate multi-national joint US military command, the Seal Team lies about their true situation on the ground in order to get Special Forces people diverted to them on a dime from their own mission elsewhere. So the Seal's lie also endangered the lives of the Special Forces personnel without giving them a say in the matter.
The primary structure of deployed US Army Special Forces is a team of twelve or fewer men. Their people ("green berets") go in for the long haul to live and work with the local people they are advising and training, usually while engaged in prolonged active combat operations against enemy forces, so when they responded to the Seal's call they would also have bought some of those locals with them, too - endangering even more lives for a lie.
This is not good military thinking - thankfully only alluded to in the episode. This is not to say that the SF would not have responded given the full truth, but they would have decided and planned based on that full truth (and, even better, if provided the opportunity, planned for the contingency in advance of the Seal insertion). It's not surprising that Special Forces still won't subject themselves to being portrayed in Hollywood fiction.
For example, in the "Seal Team" episode titled "Other Lives", supposedly taking place in an active and exceedingly difficult Syrian war zone under command of a separate multi-national joint US military command, the Seal Team lies about their true situation on the ground in order to get Special Forces people diverted to them on a dime from their own mission elsewhere. So the Seal's lie also endangered the lives of the Special Forces personnel without giving them a say in the matter.
The primary structure of deployed US Army Special Forces is a team of twelve or fewer men. Their people ("green berets") go in for the long haul to live and work with the local people they are advising and training, usually while engaged in prolonged active combat operations against enemy forces, so when they responded to the Seal's call they would also have bought some of those locals with them, too - endangering even more lives for a lie.
This is not good military thinking - thankfully only alluded to in the episode. This is not to say that the SF would not have responded given the full truth, but they would have decided and planned based on that full truth (and, even better, if provided the opportunity, planned for the contingency in advance of the Seal insertion). It's not surprising that Special Forces still won't subject themselves to being portrayed in Hollywood fiction.