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Navy SEAL From Ridgefield Gets Kissed By Seal
The local Navy SEAL served 39 years and earned one of the Navy's most prestigious honors.
NORWALK, CT — Veterans across the country were honored by people large and small Saturday, but one local veteran got a special thanks from a marine mammal. Retired Navy Capt. Peter Wikul got a kiss from Rasal, a harbor seal, during a seal training demonstration at the Maritime Aquarium.
The demonstration was part of the aquarium's Veterans Day weekend.
Wikul retired in 2009 after a 39-year career with the Navy, earning the honorable title of "Bullfrog 13" as the longest-serving active-duty SEAL. He served as the deputy commander of Special Operations Command South and comminding officer of the Kennedy Irregular Warfare Center at the Office of Navy Intelligence.
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Rasal the seal also served in the Navy herself, and was trained in the 1980s to retrieve objects from the sea floor.
Image via the Maritime Aquarium.
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