The United States Navy SEALs is the primary special operations force of the US Navy, founded on 1 January 1962 as an all-purposes special forces unit. The SEALs were trained to fight on sea, air, and land, and they typically took part in small-unit maritime operations that were staged from rivers, oceans, swamps, coasts, and deltas. Historically, the SEALs have fought in the Vietnam War, the Lebanese Civil War, on Grenada, during the Iran-Iraq War, in Panama, during the Gulf War, the Somali Civil War, the 1994-95 civil unrest in Haiti, in the Yugoslav Wars, the Afghanistan War, the Iraq War, the War in North-West Pakistan, and the war against the Islamic State. In 2016, the SEALs had 8,985 authorized positions, all of whom were males.