SEAL Team Six

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The New York Times best selling book that takes you inside SEAL Team Six the covert squad that killed Osama Bin Laden 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 Best Read SEAL Team Six author Howard E. Wasdin For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr SPOILER ALERTI found this book OK at first but then I got bored by listening to Wasdin s hypocrisy I hate the damn liberal media , oh unless I am trying to make a buck selling my book, then they are OK He talks about how he respects all the other soldiers and then goes on to say how much better his SEALs and Delta are He talks about how in Somalia they did not hang out with the Rangers because they were above them Then, later goes on, many times, saying how they fought bravely Pretty co...Told in straightforward unadorned prose, this is one man s search for himself that takes him from an abusive childhood into war and home again Through Wasdin s experience we travel with him from a rural upbringing and into the U.S Navy, where Wasdin s experience as a battered child gives him something of an edge an advantage that becomes clear when he decides to enter the SEALs Eventually a sniper in the elite SEAL Team Six unit, Wasdin served in Mogadishu during the battle made famous in t Told in straightforward unadorned prose, this is one man s search for himself that takes him from an abusive childhood into war and home again Through Wasdin s experience we travel with him from a rural upbringing and into the U.S Navy, where Wasdin s experience as a battered child gives him something of an edge an advantage that becomes clear when he decides to enter the SEALs Eventually a sniper in the elite SEAL Team Six u...This is NOT NOT NOT a novel It is the real life memoirs of a real life member of Seal Team Six For those of you who, like me, are not familiar with the various Seal teams, SEAL Team Six is as elite among the SEALs as the SEALs are elite among sailors These are the guys who do the hardest jobs assigned to the SEALs For decades, they seemed to only exi...Wasdin succeeds at painting himself as a d bag using his difficult childhood to win weapons and training to become a d bag with a license to kill In between numerous accounts of how various groups of human beings would cower in sh...If you ve read a lot of books on SEALs, you ll start to connect various operators and missions that crop up again and again, which is interesting to note The books aren t incredibly indepth because they can t be And because SEALs probably by training aren t the most introspective types, you don t hear a lot of internal analysis about their lives, feelings, or families That kind of thought process would paralyze men used to life in the moment action If you ve read lots of SEALs books, the l If you ve read a lot of books on SEALs, you ll start to connect various operators and missions that crop up again and again, which is interesting to...The parts about SEAL training are interesting Less so is everything after that And even less so is his reliance on grade school terms, like booger eaters and pee pee It basically reinforces every stereot...SEAL Team Six is the memoir of Howard Wasdin, a country boy from Georgia who becomes a sniper in the Navy SEALs Wasdin s memoir gives the reader a glimpse into his troubled boyhood, filled with abuse and poverty The difficulties of his childhood help him later in life as he goes through the grueling, often painful training to become a Navy SEAL Wasdin takes several detours in the road of life and makes several missteps his honesty is refreshing as he discusses his childhood, his failed marr SEAL Team Six is the memoir of Howard Wasdin, a country boy from Georgia who becomes a sniper in the Navy SEALs Wasdin s memoir gives the reader a glimpse into his troubled boyhood, filled with abuse and poverty The difficulties of his childhood help him later in life as he goes through the grueling, often painful training to become a Navy SEAL Wasdin takes several detours in the road of life and makes several missteps his honesty is refreshing as he discusses his childhood, his failed marriage to his high school sweetheart, his extensive training, his recovery from life threatening injuries, and his faith The part that will probably interest most readers is Wasdin s participation in U.S operations in Somalia in the 1990s and his first hand account of what has become known as Black Hawk Down Wasdin does not spare details about the military he offers information on how different branches work together or not , how the soldiers let off steam, and th...Utterly fascinating Although the writing style was at times choppy cutting in and out of stories , I thoroughly enjoyed the realness of the voice Wasdin and Templin did very well in sounding like Wasdin If that makes any sense Ever since SEAL Team Six made the news because of killing Osama Bin Laden, I ve come across numerous articles about the team I ended up reading an excerpt from this book and I just had to read the rest I was n...Wrapped around another memoir of the Mogadishu action that also inspired Black Hawk Down and similar works, Howard Wasdin, with the aid of a ghostwriter, relates his life history beginning with the extremely violent abuse by his step father He s right that in those days what happened in the home stayed in the home he expresses a certain amount of insight in...I loved this book It gave me such an appreciation for what it means to be a Navy SEAL and especially to be on SEAL Team Six Having read this in July, I was devastated when the helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan on Aug 6, killing 35 Navy SEALs from SEAL Team 6 I understood the incredible loss this was to America and to the SEAL team program I felt great sadnes...

SEAL Team Six
  • English
  • 13 January 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 331 pages
  • 031269945X
  • Howard E. Wasdin
  • SEAL Team Six