Like reading an Instagram influencers biography. "30 buff guys most of us good-looking, would walk into a bar" Constantly talking about brands of knives, knickers and sunglasses. ( )

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper by Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
Enjoy this story because it's action packed with things SEAL's do when they are working. Also enjoy his off hours and spending it with family and friends.
Love terminology that is explained and there is a glossary of the terms as well.
Lots of missions are described to the finest detail, I wonder if these are secrets that nobody knows about but they do now, is that ok with Navy? Never heard of so many of them and appreciate understanding them. Like when they repel from a helicopter and what the aircraft must do to retain length and why.
Also I've seen SEALS's coming out the water locally and never realized what they did with their flippers. So cool to find out. TV shows never show that.
Story starts when he's very young and what he has to endure. Love when he decides to better his life by joining the military. Like hearing about the Forts that he trained at: one being in Clarksville and the other at Benning. both places our son was located.
Like the laughs between the guys and about his son Blake but especially what they did to the dog that was biting them...
Found this book to be outright truthful and the missions are straight forward even if they go sideways. Lots of parts of this book that everybody could enjoy, hope you get a chance to read this one.
I was hoping to find out more about what my son had to survive during his time in the Army when he was not stateside and this story is amazing.
I received this book from National Library Service for my BARD (Braille Audio Reading Device). ( )

Let me clarify one thing, this book is not a novel. It is an autobiography. You can't expect a man to treat himself impartially no matter what the event. For the people criticising Wasdin for not towing their own political line or not reflecting their own sociopolitical commitments, guys face the reality: he did what he felt was right. This is not his attempt at a self-exoneration but a memoir of what he achieved during his career as an elite Navy SEAL.

The value of this book lies in Wasdin's ability to achieve what is otherwise lacking from many similar SEAL memoirs. He provides an insight into how a common man becomes a SEAL through a rigorous and thoroughly herculean criterion of mental and physical training-and all this before BUD/S itself.

Regards Wasdin's missions, he underscores his commitment to the ideals and policies which led to them being formed and how he later retrospectively analyzed what could have gone better. His account of Operation Black Hawk Down is as agonizing as it is poignant. Overall this is a great read which offers an insight into two-three decades of American military history from one of the men who made it. ( )

Several books about the elite Navy SEALs have been released since the killing of Bin Laden, but this book wasn't one of those rushed to print to capitalize on those headlines. This book tells the personal story of one of the SEAL Team Six members, Howard Wasdin. Some readers may not like everything about Wasdin, but that doesn't seem to be the purpose of the book. He's not running for office. This book is his story, and provides insights into what it's like to become and serve as a member of the Navy SEALs. You really have to marvel at the dedication and the never-quit, never-say-die attitude of the men who make up these elite fighting teams. The description of his time in Somalia is an excellent description of how difficult the job of the military is in these wartime experiences. At times, the book reads as if it's a recitation of his personal diary rather than a polished professionally written novel, but the style works and keeps you engaged. ( )

Un francotirador de élite nos cuenta en sus memorias cómo es eso del DEVGRU, antes llamado SEAL Team Six. Lo hace ayudado por un escritor profesional, ex SEAL, y le queda muy bien. Cuenta la historia de sus doce años de servicio, dando bastantes detalles sobre el BUD/S, el curso de acceso a los SEAL, que está entre los más duros del planeta. Si tienen unas cuatro horas, aquí está la primera parte de un reportaje sobre el curso en seis cómodas entregas que nos permite entender bastante bien el tormento físico y psicolçogico que supone un BUD/S.
El autor habla de su paso por Irak y Kuwait y de su misión final en Somalia, donde recibió un balazo que le reventó la pierna por debajo de la rodilla, salvándola de milagro. Es muy interesante leer las opiniones del autor sobre los italianos en Somalia. Me extraña que este libro no haya generado algo de conflicto diplomático, porque no he visto críticas más feroces.
Hay muchas partes muy interesantes sobre el trabajo en el campo de un francotirador, con detalles muy curiosos.
Me ha gustado la lectura, me ha parecido muy interesante y se complementa bastante bien con otro libro que leí recientemente sobre el DEVGRU, No Easy Day, sobre la vida y las misiones del SEAL que mató a Bin Laden.
Los últimos capítulos del libro hablan sobre la vida civil del autor, cómo tras dejar el Ejército trabajó de policía local, asesor de seguridad, vendedor de coches... Tienen mucho menos interés, pero el autor quiere que sepamos que tras dejar lo que fue su vida durante muchos años no le ha ido mal.
Recomendable si tiene uno interés en estos temas. ( )