The U.S. Navy's Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC, pronounced "swick") operate and maintain the inventory of state-of-the-art, high-performance boats used to support SEALs and special operations missions. Individually, SEALs and SWCC go through separate, but similar, specialized training programs that emphasize special operations in the maritime environment. SWCC are trained extensively in craft and weapons tactics, techniques and procedures. Focusing on clandestine infiltration and exfiltration of SEALs and other special operations forces, SWCC provide dedicated, rapid mobility in shallow water areas where large ships cannot operate. Like SEALs, SWCC must be physically fit, highly motivated, combat-focused and responsive in high stress situations.
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SWCC - Navy's Best Kept Secret

SWCC documentary pt.1

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US Navy Riverine Operations in Iraq


SPECIAL OPERATION CRAFT SWCC

官方資料網址 :-
http://www.navyseals.com/navy-swcc-navys-elite-boat-warriors
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/navy/a/swcc.-fEi.htm

資料網址 :-
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/4303591.html?page=1
When the US Special Forces need safe passage along a river, they call on the best-trained boatmen in the world. A PM reporter tags along on a live-fire exercise with the elite gunboat crews of Special Boat Team 22.
The first gun to shoot doesn’t sound like a gun at all. The noise is high and buzzing, like a chain saw or a leaf blower. It stops, then starts up again. From my perch on the engine cover of a special operations gunboat, I can see the source of this weird racket—someone on one of the other boats gliding down Kentucky’s Salt River is firing a minigun into the woods. Every second, hundreds of 7.62 mm bullets pour out of the spinning machine-gun barrels. I’m pushing up my helmet, trying to spot the gunners’ targets, when someone close by yells “Contact,” and the boat I’m sitting in erupts in gunfire. Now the shell casings are landing in my lap as twin M240B machine guns rattle a couple of feet away. When the aft-mounted .50 caliber starts thumping, the pressure from each shot feels like a punch in the gut.
The volume of fire builds as two other Special Operations Craft-Riverine (SOC-R) boats join in, but no one is shooting back. This is a live-fire exercise at Fort Knox—and the thousands of rounds tearing through the air on this day are all outbound. The torrent of gunfire does not seem to rattle the members of Special Boat Team 22.
Many of these Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, or SWCCs, have survived firefights along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. Fast, heavily armed SOC-R boats are used mainly to insert or extract Navy SEALs, Army Rangers and other special forces personnel. If the enemy interferes, the SWCC response is, in military speak, “violence of action.” The SOC-R’s five weapon mounts provide a 360-degree field of fire. “Anyone who decides to shoot at us will immediately regret that decision once we start shooting back,” says Mike, my designated SWCC spokesman, his face patterned with green and black grease paint. “We have an overwhelming amount of firepower at our disposal. It’s pretty insane.”
A fog of gun smoke builds over the river as the boat crew fires, and when I inhale, the smoke burns the back of my throat. It’s no longer possible to make out the demolished targets or even the foliage on the riverbank.
This one-sided engagement has already covered the floor of the 33-ft-long boat with hundreds of spent casings. But the simulated fight isn’t over yet, even as the diesel engines throttle up and the boat speeds off. The aft gunner continues to rattle away on the .50-caliber, and clouds of dirt are still blooming on the offending bank.

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Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) assigned to Special Boat Team (SBT) 22 conduct live-fire drills at the riverine training range at John C. Stennis Space Center. SBT-22 operates the special operations craft-riverine and is the only U.S. special operations command dedicated to operating in the riverine environment

Slicing across the surface of the water, members of Special Warfare Combat Craft (SWCC) Class 45 familiarize themselves with the maneuvering capabilities of their Ridged Hull Inflatable Boat (RHIB) during a day of training off the Pacific coast.

Naval Special Warfare 11-meter rigid-hull inflatable boats (RHIB) transit the Pamlico Sound to a live-fire training range near Piney Island. The Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC), who operate the 11-meter RHIBs, fired .50-caliber machine guns and MK-19 grenade launchers as part of a training exercise preparing for an upcoming deployment supporting the Global War on Terrorism.



Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) assigned to Special Boat Team 22 (SBT-22) conduct live-fire immediate action drills at the riverine training range at Ft. Knox. SBT-22 operates the special operations craft-riverine and is the only U.S. special operations command dedicated to operating in the riverine environment

An Army CH-47 helicopter attached to the 159th Aviation Regiment lifts a Naval Special Warfare 11-meter rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) during a maritime external air transporation system training exercise. The special warfare combatant-craft crewmen (SWCC) aboard the 11-meter RHIB climb a ladder to the helicopter, which can transport the craft over land or water, further expanding the operational reach of the special boat operators

Special warfare combatant-craft crewmen (SWCC), assigned to Special Boat Teams (SBT) 12 and 20, attach a naval special warfare 11-meter rigid-hull inflatable boat to an Army Reserve CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the 159th Aviation Regiment during a maritime external air transportation system (MEATS) training exercise at Ft. Eustis, Va. MEATS allows SWCC to extend their operational reach by slinging the special operations craft to a helicopter and transporting it to remote locations.

Special warfare combatant-craft (SWCC) crewmen assigned to Special Boat Team 22 traverse the waterways of the Stennis Space Center as they utilize the brand new riverine live fire training range.




A Special Warfare Combatant-craft crewman (SWCC) mans his GAU-17 minigun during live-fire patrol training along the Salt River in northern Kentucky. SWCCs attached to Special Boat Team 22 (SBT-22) from Stennis, Miss., employ the Special Operations Craft Riverine (SOC-R), which is specifically designed for the clandestine insertion and extraction of U.S. Navy SEALs and other special operations forces along shallow waterways and open water environments



A Special Operations Craft-Riverine (SOC-R) performs a crash-back maneuver during training along the Salt River in northern Kentucky. Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC) attached to Special Boat Team 22 (SBT-22) based in Stennis, Miss., employ the SOC-R, a craft designed for the clandestine insertion and extraction of U.S. Navy SEALs and other special operations forces along shallow waterways and open water environments