The story about the SEAL team killing Osama is crazy. It’s mind boggling the shit that special ops guys go through. I’ve read a couple of really fascinating books about these guys:
Lone Survivor - Story of Operation Redwing. SEAL team inserted into Afghanistan to capture or assasinate a high ranking Al Qaeda, and everything goes wrong. One survives, protected by locals under ancient customs to protect strangers in need. The target turned out to be Ahmed Shah, though when the book was written that was still classified so he couldn’t say who the target of the mission was. The book spends a lot of time talking about SEAL training.
The Only Thing Worth Dying For - Story of the Army Rangers bringing Hamid Karzai into Afghanistan to rally tribal support and ultimately take the capital.
Fry - That first book was part of our train up info for Trashcanistan. That story only reinforced the using of a blood chit to carry around during your tour.
Not about special ops but my captain wrote this about us from our first tour. Talks about train up … securing route Irish … losses Not a bad read.
That movie was shot while I was there not to far away. I lasted about 10 minutes into this before I couldn’t watch any more.
Force Recon Diary, 1969 and 1970. I borrowed these from the local library so much I went and bought them.
The author, Bruce Norton, was a Navy corpsman assigned to several Marine Force Recon units in 'Nam - hairy tales of ambushes, ambushing, booby traps, R&R, and even “shooting a g00k bear with an M-79.” Great read with natural prose.
