NAVY SEALS of GREECE | O.Y.K

O.Y.K is a tradition of the Hellenic Navy in naval special operations. The unit was established in 1957 with help from the United States Navy's Underwater Demolition Team when two Greek officers were sent to Little Creek in Virginia to evaluate a UDT operational capability for the Hellenic Navy. Then O.Y.K. became Greece's Navy elite special warfare unit.
In 1997, during the violent unrest that erupted in neighboring Albania, the OYK was responsible for taking control of the international airport of Tirana and the evacuation of 240 foreign dignitaries from Albania (Operation Kosmas). In 2008, OYK teams took part in Operation Atalanta, deploying onboard Hellenic Navy vessels off the coast of Somalia. The OYK would carry out counter-piracy operations for the rest of the Hellenic Navy's deployment to the region.
In late July/ early August 2014, Greek Navy SEALs undertook an operation in which they were to evacuate Greek/ Cypriot and foreign citizens from Tripoli, Libya. The team entered the tripoli port to carry out reconnaissance and to establish contact with local Libyan forces on the ground. The civilians were then evacuated, 89 being from either Greece or Cyprus and an additional 97 people being citizens of other countries (including the United Kingdom, China, Russia, Albania, and Belgium). In total, 186 people were extracted. The civilians were transported by Libyan port authority RHIBs (due to weather) and then handed off to a Greek frigate who later sailed back to Piraeus.
In 2020, the Hellenic Navy began taking part in Operation Irini, a European naval task force tasked with monitoring and intercepting suspicious cargo close to the Libyan shores as part of the arms embargo on Libya. OYK teams are tasked with executing VBSS operations. So far, a large number of onboard visits have been carried out by the teams.
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