Navy SEALs

Disney Withdraws 'SEAL Team 6' Trademark Application

Eric Lach | May 26, 2011, 10:04AM

Out of "deference" to the Navy, Walt Disney Co. has withdrawn an application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for use of the term "SEAL Team 6," a company spokesman told The Wall Street Journal.

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Jim Moats

Pastor's Tale Of Navy SEAL Days Unravels After Bin Laden's Killing

Eric Lach | May 9, 2011, 3:20PM

After years of letting his congregation believe he'd once been a Navy SEAL, a Pennsylvania pastor's tale has come undone.

Last week, The Patriot-News newspaper, based in Harrisburg, reached out to former SEALs living in midstate Pennsylvania, hoping for some local perspective on the U.S. commando operation that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Rev. Jim Moats, of Newville, obliged, and was featured in a story that ran in Saturday's edition. But it turns out Moats was never a SEAL, and the guilt-ridden pastor went to the paper's office on Sunday to fess up.

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Topics: Jim Moats, Navy SEALs, Osama bin Laden