SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

Thank you for your service and I hope your family enjoys the fruits of your labor, your legacy is enduring and your post military career is inspiring

Seal Team Six a.k.a Naval Special Warfare Development Group a.k.a it's current unknown name has become a ubiquitous name for the general public to consume post Operation Neptune Spear! And this book tells us about that fabled clandestine unit before it emerged from the cocoon of Neptune Spear!Written by Howard Wasdin, former operative, it's a delightful military memoir cum autobiography all rolled into one. Starting from a childhood with hard-as-nails and, sometimes, very rough parents, in this case his half-father, it takes one into the carefree youth of Howard where he would help out his family in the fruit business. Then his entry into the Navy as a Search & Rescue personnel. How he would join the SEAL's and end up joining the very unit he himself didn't know existed!His actions in the Gulf and in Mogadishu are a riveting read for any military buff. His regards and respect for the Delta Force, with whom he fought in Mogadishu, is praiseworthy!I'll not write more as I strongly suggest that you buy this book and know more of it's contents!

A very good read, insighful and lucid. Once you begin reading, the book is unputdownable. Howard's life is an inspiration to others.

Amazingly well written auto-biography. As somebody who is joining the military in less than a week, this gives me the extra motivation to push through my upcoming bootcamp. Thank you, Howard Wasdin.

Uma narrativa verdadeiramente sincera da trajetória do autor da infância à fase posterior a sua formação e atuação como SEAL, com todas as nuances ...para o bem e para o mal.

I should start by saying this, I'm a tough person. I have the ability to push forward and run 20 miles in the dark alone by myself, I've always thought I was invincible or special in some way, that made me different than others. That believe was of course humbled when I started practicing different martial arts but the simple fall backs were always, well they've been doing this longer so they should be better, but given how long they've been doing it, they should be much better. All of those preconceived notions about myself were shattered when I started working out with a former SEAL. A nice unassuming guy, not in your face aggressive like a Marine, but just existed and had the ability to turn off a switch in his body that told him it was time to stop running, doing pull ups, doing push up's etc. He was by definition, the most capable human being I have ever worked out with. Not the strongest, not the biggest, not the best looking not the most gifted, simply put. The most capable.The reason this book is so great is because it gives me an idea of what that guy had to do to get to where he was when I met him. The mentality, that grit. It can't be taught but it can be developed and harnessed by anyone, and this book taught me one thing, as tough as I think I am, I am not nearly that tough. I'd break, and so would most of us. From the opening story of his childhood to how touched he is by people in his later years this is a great book that not only opens your eyes to the training that goes into war, it's heartbreaking to see the effects of war, to walk those streets and hear those screams and have a vivid story of people in shock at a scratch and people operating despite multiple gun shot wounds. The book goes into detail about the politics involved in war and how we as American's shouldn't call it a war anymore. We are now an occupying force until a person in an office gets their votes then says, okay, good, pull out.The book details the struggles from childhood, to adulthood to what you will do for money in between. I can't say enough about this book but can say this to people who write bad reviews.One reviewer claims that he didn't like the book because it felt like an advertisement for products, I personally couldn't have been happier. I have spent great deals of times in tents and cold and wet, hungry and trying to figure out how to do this or that and what would make those task easier. I read this book and looked up the products he used, the things he trusts. Why, because anyone who has even went to a camp ground once that had a water slide will tell you, knowing what to use and what to bring, being prepared is one of the greatest things another person can pass on to you. Do I agree with everything, no, I wear Khul pants, he doesn't, but I'm happy he went into detail on what gun he trust, what food, what clothes, glasses etc, because people who have done these things, like to share and pass on how much they love these things. I can list a good handful of products that I swear by, from a robot vacuum to a knife to a computer. The things that people trust and share is just as good as an amazon review.Second, so there are spelling errors, the U.S. Constitution has grammatical errors, that's life. The book is well written, it's well researched and it's paced well. The story unfolds linearly and has a few spelling errors, none that make me slam my kindle on the ground in frustration as I have currently lost the point of the story. A few "was" could be "were's". I am as much as a grammatically ninja as the next person, but the guy didn't go to school and get a masters degree in writing, his editor missed a few common things, when I wrote my book the editor missed them there too. You don't see people shouting about how Anne Frank didn't punctuate things correctly.

Fantastic book,easy to read and it will have you laughing at the antics if the team and the man himself. The shear will power of humans to push themselves to do these things(the selection test to become a seal).You will flick through the pages and smile and I mean laugh..it's a good book worth reading a mans man book,I was born in the 60's and so I'm not into hair gel and all this into my feminine side.I am a good man,an honest man but not a new man,i'm a caveman and live being so I fight,drink, act silly,fart and everything a man does. I am too honest for most people they like to see things in rose tinted glasses I see and tell how it is Read this book

Das Buch „Seal Team Six“, ist kein reines Militärbuch, soddern eine autobiografische Geschichte über das Leben des Autors Howard Wasdin. So erzählt es auch von seiner schweren Jugend und berichtet über seine militärische Karriere, von Beginn der harten Ausbildung als Navy Seal, dem Training und den Herausforderungen und Missionen.Zwar geht das Buch nicht allzu tief auf besondere Einzelheiten ein, dennoch ist es spannend und auch für eine/n einigermaßen offene/n LeserIn nachvollziehbar geschrieben. Man sollte jedoch nicht annehmen, sehr viele Tricks und Kniffe der Seals zu erlernen.Natürlich ist Wasdin sehr patriotisch und stellt, was für eine/n durchschnittliche/n LeserIn merkwürdig sein kann, sein Land und sein Team vor die Familie.So sollte man also die Voraussetzung mitbringen sich nicht an diversen, nicht allzu schlimmen jedoch dennoch vorkommenden Äußerungen nicht stören zu lassen.Ich habe das Buch in englisch gelesen und kann es nur weiter empfehlen, natürlich gibt es eine deutsche Fassung, aber nachdem ich gesehen habe wie man hier alleine das Cover verschandelt hat, würde ich davon abraten.Howard Wasdin, erzählt sehr packend, berührend und manchmal unterhaltsam über seine Erfahrungen, nicht nur als Soldat in der Navy bzw. als Navy Seal und Sniper, sondern auch als Mensch. Er thematisiert sehr ehrlich sein Leben und spricht auch über die Veränderung die er durchlebte seit seiner Kariere als Seal und seiner Gefechtserfahrungen.Das Buch empfehle ich gerne weiter.Herzlichen Gruß