Captain Winters and the Polarian Seal Team – Edward G. Winters III, US Navy Rear Admiral (ret) and Seal Team Six
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Captain_Winters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEAL_Team_Six
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_G._Winters,_III
Captain Winters is the Polarian Seal Team Leader, and a hired guard to Empress Antuskette. After defeating his team in combat, your wizard has earned his respect. He and his team assist you in defeating Rasputin in mission dubbed “Operation Icebath”.
Lieutenant Snow is the demolitions expert. Sergeant Sleet has security and Field Specialist Frost is the Science Officer.
of the Polarian Seal Team
The Naval Special Warfare Development Group (NSWDG), abbreviated as DEVGRU (“Development Group”) and commonly known as SEAL Team Six, is the United States Navy component of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The unit is often referred to within JSOC as Task Force Blue. DEVGRU is administratively supported by Naval Special Warfare Command and operationally commanded by JSOC. Most information concerning DEVGRU is designated as classified, and details of its activities are not usually commented on by either the United States Department of Defense or the White House. Despite the official name changes, “SEAL Team Six” remains the unit’s widely recognized moniker.
DEVGRU and its Army and Air Force counterparts, Delta Force and 24th Special Tactics Squadron, are the U.S. military’s primary Tier 1 special mission units tasked with performing the most complex, classified, and dangerous missions directed by, until 2002, the National Command Authority, and since then, directly from the President or the Secretary of Defense. DEVGRU conducts various specialized missions such as counterterrorism, hostage rescue, special reconnaissance, and direct action (short-duration strikes or small-scale offensive actions), often against high-value targets.
The origins of DEVGRU are in SEAL Team Six, a unit created in the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw. During the Iran hostage crisis in 1979, Richard Marcinko was one of two U.S. Navy representatives for a Joint Chiefs of Staff task force known as the TAT (Terrorist Action Team). The purpose of the TAT was to develop a plan to free the American hostages held in Iran. In the wake of the disaster at the Desert One base in Iran, the Navy saw the need for a full-time counter-terrorist unit and tasked Marcinko with its design and development.
Marcinko was the first commanding officer of this new unit. At the time, there were two SEAL Teams, SEAL Team ONE and SEAL Team TWO. Marcinko named the unit SEAL Team Six in order to confuse Soviet intelligence as to the number of actual SEAL teams in existence.
In 1987, SEAL Team Six was dissolved. A new unit named the “Naval Special Warfare Development Group” was formed, essentially as SEAL Team Six’s successor. Reasons for the disbanding are varied, but the name SEAL Team Six is often used in reference to DEVGRU.
Edward G. Winters III (born June 26, 1956) is a retired United States Navy rear admiral who commanded the Naval Special Warfare Command from Sept. 2008 to June 2011. He also previously served as commanding officer of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group from 2003 to 2005.
The current list of all the (known) Polaris references can be found here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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