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180 - US Navy Demolition Divers

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The Role of Retraining in the UDTs

They're not retasking Normandy and Normandy. They were going to clear obstacles and widen their gaps. And so if they were going to go to the beaches of secured, do they have a mission beyond that or is there responsibility literally in the surf? He was moving from NCDU into UDTs. So there's some brief UDT training at Fort Pierce again. Then they did their advanced training on Maui and Draper Kauffman was lead instructor at the UDT Maui base. Brought in a Hawaiian Pearl diver as a guest instructor to teach them and to hold their breath longer,. dive under enemy bullets and stay concealed for longer.

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