SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper:
When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send
their elite, they send SEAL Team Six
SEAL Team Six is a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue,
and counterinsurgency. In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard
Wasdin takes readers deep inside the world of Navy SEALS and Special Forces
snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater
Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S).the toughest and longest military training in
the world.
After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First there was combat in
Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then the Green Course:
the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six, with a curriculum
that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning
how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges.
Finally as a member of SEAL Team Six he graduated from the most storied and
challenging sniper program in the country: The Marine.s Scout Sniper School.
Eventually, of the 18 snipers in SEAL Team Six, Wasdin became the best.which
meant one of the best snipers on the planet.
Less than half a year after sniper school, he was fighting for his life.
The mission: capture or kill Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. From
rooftops, helicopters and alleys, Wasdin hunted Aidid and killed his men
whenever possible. But everything went quickly to hell when his small band
of soldiers found themselves fighting for their lives, cut off from help,
and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission.
The Battle of Mogadishu, as it become known, left 18 American soldiers dead
and 73 wounded. Howard Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off while
engaging the enemy. His dramatic combat tales combined with inside details
of becoming one of the world.s deadliest snipers make this one of the most
explosive military memoirs in years.
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost
Heroes of SEAL Team 10:
Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the
mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their
task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very
close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later,
only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive.
This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL fire team
leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the
largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history. His squadmates fought
valiantly beside him until he was the only one left alive, blasted by an RPG
into a place where his pursuers could not find him. Over the next four days,
terribly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell crawled for miles through the
mountains and was taken in by sympathetic villagers who risked their lives
to keep him safe from surrounding Taliban warriors.
A born and raised Texan, Marcus Luttrell takes us from the rigors of SEAL
training, where he and his fellow SEALs discovered what it took to join the
most elite of the American special forces, to a fight in the desolate hills
of Afghanistan for which they never could have been prepared. His account of
his squadmates' heroism and mutual support renders an experience that is
both heartrending and life-affirming. In this rich chronicle of courage and
sacrifice, honor and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers a powerful narrative
of modern war.
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