Veterans On the Board

No offense to the current company... but the best people on this earth and off it I met on my Teams....

None taken. I worked with every branch's special operations units from Tier 1 down. I can't say I disagree. I was just a Seabee "tech support" guy. I did operate outside the wire on mission with NSW as a driver and gunner.
There are really special people in all the branch's special operations units but the 18 series guys were always the best. Real people. The NSW guys I started working with at my first unit (NSWU-4/SOCSOUTH) were older dudes that were true quiet professionals. Sometime in the early 2000's it completely changed to primarily being egotistical and loud. It used to be that you could only tell a SEAL by his mustache and short shorts. Now they want to tell you. I know some solid dudes but sadly, the overall culture was like this when I got out in 2011. There was a lot of Frogmen getting into serious legal trouble and it was swept under the rug. Punching women, drugs, wrecking gov vehicles coming home from the bar, stealing ammo and NODS....
I hear they are finally reining in that behavior.