The Trident: The Forging and Reforging of a Navy SEAL Leader

On that mission his team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range. During the intense recovery period that followed, Redman gained national attention when he posted a sign on his door at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, warning all who entered not to "feel sorry for his wounds.

His sign became both a statement and a symbol for wounded warriors everywhere. From his grueling seal training to his search for a balance between arrogance and humility, Redman shares it all in this inspiring and unforgettable account. Redman is brutally honest about his struggles to learn how to be an effective leader, yet that effort pales beside the story of his critical wounding in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander.

But his journey was not without supreme challenges—both emotional and physical. He conducted over forty capture/kill missions with his men in Iraq, locating more than 120 al-Qaida insurgents. Decorated us navy seal lieutenant jason redman served his country courageously and with distinction in Colombia, and Iraq, Afghanistan, Peru, where he commanded mobility and assault forces.

. He speaks candidly of the grit that sustained him despite grievous wounds, and of the extraordinary love and devotion of his wife, and his family, Erica, without whom he would not have survived. Vivid and powerful, emotionally resonant and illuminating, husband, and father, The Trident traces the evolution of a modern warrior, a man who has come to embody the never-say-die spirit that defines the SEALs, one of America's elite fighting forces.

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Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

Army's 10th mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan. The new york times bestsellera riveting story of american fighting men,  Outlaw Platoon is Lieutenant Sean Parnell's stunning personal account of the legendary U. S. Acclaimed for its vivid,  outlaw platoon is a band of brothers or we were Soldiers Once and Young for the early 21st century--an action-packed, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kush, highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery.

A magnificent account of heroes, renegades, it stands with Sebastian Junger's War as one of the most important books to yet emerge from the heat, and brothers, infidels, smoke, and fire of America's War in Afghanistan.


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Dog Company: A True Story of American Soldiers Abandoned by Their High Command

It does not want to reveal the new lawyered-up Pentagon war ethic that prosecutes U. S. In 2007, hill got his dream job: infantry commander in the storied 101st Airborne. His new unit, dog company, 1-506th, had just returned stateside from the hell of Ramadi. Meanwhile, hill found himself at war with his own battalion commander, a charismatic but difficult man who threatened to relieve Hill at every turn.

Hill and scott then led dog company into combat in Afghanistan, where a third of their men became battlefield casualties after just six months. The army does not want you to read this book. The men were brilliant in combat but unpolished at home, where paperwork and inspections filled their days. With tough love, hill and his first sergeant, an old-school former drill instructor named Tommy Scott, turned the company into the top performers in the battalion.

. After two of his men died on a routine patrol, Hill and a counterintelligence team busted a dozen enemy infiltrators on their base in the violent province of Wardak. Soldiers and Marines while setting free spies who kill Americans. This very system ambushed Captain Roger Hill and his men. Hill, a west point grad and decorated combat veteran, was a rising young officer who had always followed the letter of the military law.

Abandoned by his high command, hill suddenly faced an excruciating choice: follow Army rules the way he always had, or damn the rules to his own destruction and protect the men he'd grown to love.


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Recondo: LRRPs in the 101st Airborne

75th ranger Regiment. For firefights in the swamps, or just facing the enemy dead-on, ambushes in the jungle, Recondo trained LRRPs to win. They will never be able to duplicate the 5th special Forces Recondo School and the training that gave its grads something they desperately needed—the skills to survive Long Range Patrol missions in the jungle that NVA considered its own.

. Vietman veteran larry chambers vividly describes the grit and courage it took to pass the tough volunteer-only training program in Nha Trang and the harrowing graduation mission to scout out, locate, and out-guerrilla the NVA. Here is an unforgettable account that follows Chambers and the Rangers every step of the way—from joining, going through Recondo, and finally leading his own team on white-knuckle missions through the deadly jungles of Vietnam.

I made this book mandatory reading for my Rangers. Army master Sergeant H. Max” mullen Ret. In training we'd get to the objective so fast they had to hold us back. U. S.


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Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic

The gripping memoir of navy cross, silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donaldas a seal and combat medic, mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable. From the rigors of bud/s training to the horrors of the battlefield, Battle Ready dramatically immerses the reader in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic who advances into combat with life-saving equipment in one hand and life-taking weapons in the other.

That new life begins with the marines and includes his heroic achievements on the battlefield and the operating table, and finally, of his inspirational triumph over the demons caused by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that threatened to destroy him and his family. It is also an uplifting human story that reveals how a young Hispanic American bootstrapped himself out of a life that promised a dead-end future by enlisting in the military.

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Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story

The book will tie-in with a fall 2014 PBS series. Over the last fifty years, a small Navy unit has evolved into the world’s most celebrated fighting force: the U. S. Navy seals—from their roots in world war ii to their celebrated efforts in the War on Terror—written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community.

. The most complete history of the U. S. Navy sEALs. Until now, their stories have been sealed in the chambers of operational secrecy—and the brotherhood of SEAL anonymity. Drawing on exclusive interviews with more than 100 former special operators,  highly respected retired SEAL Dick Couch and award-winning author Bill Doyle record their stories in Navy Seals and give us the epic chronicle these legendary warriors deserve.

Navy seals charts the seals story, from their origins in the daring naval combat demolition Teams, Scouts and Raiders commando units, Underwater Demolition Teams, and OSS Operational Swimmers of WWII to their coming of age in Vietnam and rise to glory in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. Illustrated with 40-pages of photographs,  here are the greatest missions of the world’s most legendary special operators—in their own words.

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The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228

With a postscript describing seal efforts in Afghanistan, The Warrior Elite takes you into the toughest, longest, and most relentless military training in the world. What does it take to become a navy seal? what makes talented, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, former Navy SEAL Dick Couch documents the process that transforms young men into warriors.

. Seal training is the distillation of the human spirit, a tradition-bound ordeal that seeks to find men with character, and the burning desire to win at all costs, courage, men who would rather die than quit. From the Trade Paperback edition.


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The Ranger Way: Living the Code On and Off the Battlefield

In the ranger way, tanto shares stories from his training experiences that played a role in his team's heroic response in Benghazi on September 11, 2012. Being a ranger is, not for everyone, by design, but anyone can use the expectations and techniques of Ranger culture to achieve personal victory. P. P1 {margin: 0

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Low Level Hell: A Scout Pilot in the Big Red One

Charles H. Too often for longevity’s sake they found the Viet Cong and the fight was on. There were moments when I literally held my breath. Dr. The aeroscouts of the 1st Infantry Division had three words emblazoned on their unit patch: Low Level Hell. It was then and continues today as the perfect concise definition of what these intrepid aviators experienced as they ranged the skies of Vietnam from the Cambodian border to the Iron Triangle.

Mills has captured the realities of a select group of aviators who shot craps with death on every mission. R. S. Army aviation Museum. Army training and doctrine tradoc command“low level Hell is the best ‘bird’s eye view’ of the helicopter war in Vietnam in print today. The outcasts, flew low and slow, as they were known, aerial eyes of the division in search of the enemy.

These young pilots 19-22 years old “invented” the book as they went along. Praise for low level Hell“An absolutely splendid and engrossing book. Maxham, Director, U. S. No volume better describes the feelings from the cockpit.


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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

History—and captures with unforgettable intensity the men, the strategies, and the sacrifices that turned certain defeat into a legendary victory. In the tradition of the #1 new York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, James D. Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno. Hornfischer paints an unprecedented portrait of the Battle of Samar, a naval engagement unlike any other in U.

S. All that stood between it and douglas macArthur’ s vulnerable invasion force were the Roberts and the other small ships of a tiny American flotilla poised to charge into history. This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B.

On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented the last hope of a staggering empire. Bonus: this edition includes an excerpt from James D. We will do what damage we can. With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar.

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The Hunter Killers: The Extraordinary Story of the First Wild Weasels, the Band of Maverick Aviators Who Flew the Most Dangerous Missions of the Vietnam War

Those who survived the 50 percent casualty rate would revolutionize warfare forever. You gotta be sh*#@ing me!" this immortal phrase was uttered by Captain Jack Donovan when the Wild Weasel concept was first explained to him. To most it seemed a suicide mission—but they beat the door down to join. At the height of the cold war, America's most elite aviators bravely volunteered for a covert program aimed at eliminating an impossible new threat.

More tragic losses followed, establishing the enemy's SAMs as the deadliest anti-aircraft threat in history and dramatically turning the tables of Cold War air superiority in favor of Soviet technology. Stunned and desperately searching for answers, the Pentagon ordered a top secret program called Wild Weasel I to counter the SAM problem—fast.

Half never returned. Three days later, six F-105 Thunderchiefs were brought down trying to avenge the Phantom. You want me to fly in the back of a little tiny fighter aircraft with a crazy fighter pilot who thinks he's invincible, and shoot it before it shoots me?"Based on unprecedented firsthand interviews with Wild Weasel veterans and previously unseen personal papers and declassified documents from both sides of the conflict, as well as Dan Hampton's own experience as a highly decorated F-16 Wild Weasel pilot, home in on a SAM site in North Vietnam, cockpit-level chronicle of the first-generation Weasels, The Hunter Killers is a gripping, the remarkable band of aviators who faced head-on the advanced Soviet missile technology that was decimating fellow American pilots over the skies of Vietnam.

From new york times bestselling author Dan Hampton comes one of the most extraordinary untold stories of aviation history. Vietnam, 1965: on july 24 a usaf f-4 phantom jet was suddenly blown from the sky by a mysterious and lethal weapon—a Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missile SAM, launched by Russian "advisors" to North Vietnam.




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