---
title: "This Navy SEAL knew how to have fun and get to work"
description: "For SEAL Team five, Rob Guzzo was the \"smiley jokester\" — everyone who encountered him loved him right away. Let's look back on his legacy."
date: "2021-02-19"
modified: "2021-02-19"
authors:
  - name: "Tim Kirkpatrick"
    link: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/authors/tkirkpatrick/"
url: "https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-heroes/rob-guzzo-navy-seal/"
categories:
  - "History"
  - "Navy"
  - "Special Operations"
  - "Tactical"
---

# This Navy SEAL knew how to have fun and get to work

![](<https://www.wearethemighty.com/wp-content/uploads/legacy/assets.rbl.ms/17314413/origin.png>)

Navy SEALs have dominated the battlefields they've stepped on since the concept of their existence was [developed during WWII](<https://navyseals.com/nsw/navy-seal-history/>).

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The Navy SEALs were officially declared in 1962 when former President John F. Kennedy had them established to conduct Unconventional Warfare — and they've been kicking a\*\* ever since.

### Related: [This is why the Navy SEAL swim challenge is not for just anyone](<https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/this-is-why-the-navy-seal-swim-challenge-is-not-for-just-anyone/>)

There's a cast of characters that pop up in any military unit: you have the "grandpa," the "fighter," and the "smiley-jokester" that everyone loves immediately.

For SEAL Team five, Rob Guzzo was the "smiley jokester" — everyone who encountered him loved him right away.

"As soon as Rob checked in and he was going to be a comms guy, I mean we just hit it off right off the bat," one Navy SEAL states. "We were just laughing all the time."

Rob's teammates commonly remember him as being a "walking holiday." Sadly, Rob passed away in 2012, but this popular and fun-natured SEAL will live on through the memories in which he made with family and the SEAL community.

"Rob was a total jokester, which is awesome but at the same time was serious," another SEAL admits. "His parents were both military, and he had that sense of pride."

### Also Read: [Navy SEALs are prowling the Middle East on these stealthy boats](<https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-trending/navy-seals-are-prowling-the-middle-east-on-these-stealthy-boats/>)

Check out the [HISTORY](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9MAhZQQd9egwWCxrwSIsJQ>) channel's video below hear what exactly brings a SEAL platoon together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8LHtVoG0Go

YouTube, [HISTORY](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9MAhZQQd9egwWCxrwSIsJQ>)

## Author
Tim Kirkpatrick entered the Navy in 2007 as a Hospital Corpsman and deployed to Sangin, Afghanistan with 3rd Battalion 5th Marines in the fall of 2010. Tim now has degrees in both Film Production and Screenwriting. tim.kirkpatrick@wearethemighty.com