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Special Boat Teams (SBTs) are part of the U.S. Navy's Special Warfare Command and participated in Operation Iraqi Freedom. SBTs are composed of Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen (SWCC), which are specially trained coxswains who employ, operate and maintain a variety of surface combatant craft to conduct and support special operations, including maritime interdiction missions, insertion and extraction of Navy SEALs and other U.S. special operations units, direct action missions, and special reconnaissance.
According to the Navy, Virginia-based Special Boat Team 20 assisted in the capture of the Iraqi port city of Umm Qasr and played a role in securing oil delivery stations along the Iraqi coast. SBT 20 detachments also conducted several leadership interdiction operations to prevent the escape of suspected Iraqi regime members.