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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 359.984
EAN num: 9781400046959
ISBN number: 1400046955
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: January 28, 2003
Publishing house: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: January 28, 2003
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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, intelligent young men volunteer for physical punishment, cold water, and days without sleep? In The Warrior Elite, 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, courage, and the burning desire to win at all costs, men who would rather die than quit.
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I've read this book twice and LOVE reading about the BUDS experience. Anyone considering a move into the Special Operations community should read this book cover to cover.
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This book was excellent and I know at least a few other guys that I went through similar USAF training with that used it as motivation. It is well written and you can clearly see the author's care for his subject.
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Ever wonder if you would be able to make it through SEAL school ??
This will make you think long and hard about it.
If you can make it through the fitness tests, and the skills tests and the water tests, all the time having a fresh set of Instructors in your face, everytime you breath wrong.
You get to "try" and make it through "Hell Week", not many do.....
Having been a "guest" Instructor, I can say, this book is as close as you can come to being in SEAL school, without being a "sand cookie".
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I got it quickly and in tact. It's a great blow by blow of as much of the process as you're gonna get without actually being there. It's a great read and I finished it in about a week or so. I also own the BUDS CLASS 234 DVDs and the amount of detail that this book offers over the DVDs fully justifies buying it. You won't be disappointed.
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There's a lot to like about this book. Couch - a SEAL himself - had unprecedented acess to the SEAL training program, and was given a wide berth to write about it in detail. As an overview of an incredibly grueling training process, with acess most of us will never have, it's solid.
Ultimately, however, Couch isn't up to the task of documenting what's put before him. The writing is intensely mediocre.
First, he fails to adequately some activities (such as log PT) well enough for the reader to actually understand what's going on. This is a common mistake among writers with inadequate editorial guidance. He doesn't know what his readers don't know, so fails to explain some things.
Secondly, Couch doesn't dig to find stories. At the end of the book, you don't feel like you know the members of class 228 as individuals. Sure, you can recite the litany of body-breaking obstacles they overcame, but who are they? Why should we care about these people? Only a few of them are singled out for meaningful individual comment, and they get praise of the blandest variety. No personality comes through.
Lastly, Couch doesn't get into the nitty-gritty of tactical training at all. Evidently there's a technique which helps the trainees swim faster, but Couch can't be bothered with so much as a paragraph to explain what it is. We're told the trainees study military tactics, but the tactics themselves are never explained. Technical detail - so I learned something about how SEALs think and operate - could have compensated for Couch's failure to find individual stories, but is sadly absent from this book.
I have a few friends who were SEALs and this book definitely increased my respect for them. I can't imagine going through what they went though.
On the other hand, I learn more about what SEALs do, and how they do it, from one of my friends' stories than I did from this book. There was tremendous potential in what Couch set off to accomplish ... but sadly, he didn't reach it.
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