A true life story of a Navy Seal who loses ...
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A true life story of a Navy Seal who loses his sight and gives a living testimony how tragedy can blossom into blessing.
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Wow an amazing story!  Really a good book, shows how tough our SEALS are!

Starts out first half of the book with mainly the training and life before the famous incident.  Then the second half is the battle that many brave SEALs lost their lives, and the eventual rescue of Marcus Lutrell.

The training of the SEAL is very interesting.  I have read Rogue Warrior and Chris Kyle's book this is definitely just as well written.

The other SEALs in the book are so well written it makes it very heartbreaking to learn their fates.  One of the SEALs has a park dedicated to his memory where I live in Colorado.  I recommend this book highly and if you can't put it down and lose sleep like I did you also might want to read the books I mentioned above.
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This is another of Ms Hamiltons Navy Seal books. I have to say that the beginning was slow and I almost stopped reading it. But , knowing it was a book by one of my favorite authors,I didn't give up. I am glad I did because after the first 1/4 of the book, it finally caught my interest.
This story centers around Zak, a new member of the Seals , and Amy his girlfriend who later becomes his wife.
But the real story is that Ms Hamilton brings to the forefront the sacrifices the soldiers and their families make to keep us safe in this country. Some come back with physical and emotional injuries. Some so devastating that the world they knew no longer exists .
We , as a Nation and as individuals, need to do more for them. For that awareness, I thank you , Ms Hamilton.
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Marcus Lutrell gives a very poignant account of what happened to his team during Operation Red Wing & the lost of members of Seal Team 10 in Afghanistan.
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This memoir about Navy Seal, Adam Brown, was inspiring and probably my favorite read. I have never cried reading a book. I felt as if I lived through the book and saw every step Adam took throughout his life. I felt close to his family. Eric Blehm did an amazing job capturing Adam's life story. Adam is an inspiration to any human being and it's sad that the worst things happen to the best people. He was a brave warrior and I will never forget reading about his life. RIP Adam Brown.
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American Sniper is a biography written about the life of Navy Seal sniper Chris Kyle.
Kyle was and is still to this day the deadliest sniper in U.S. Military history. He is credited for over 160 kills within a 3 tour span in Iraq, Kyle struggled though all three of his tours do to increasing post traumatic stress from cycling back and forth to and from the United States and Iraq and Afghanistan and dealing with family issues back home. This man was forced to do things that most would never dream of doing in their entire life. This man is a true american hero. Chris ends up dying a tragic death in the United States after he had retired from the Seals, Leaving behind His wife and two children. This Book Written by chris along with two other co-authors captures his life to a point and creates a true image of the things that Chris Kyle and the rest of our armed forces have to go through while engaged in modern warfare. I would highly recommend this book to someone who is into reading war novels or someone who is into reading about true american heroes.
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Lone Survivor is a well-written account of the training of Navy SEALs.  It follows a unit into a Middle East battle and graphically records the reality of the role of the SEALs in undercover work.  The book doesn't glamorize war, but it does make the Middle East war zones come to life in how hellish and unpredictable this war has become.
Bless those who serve so valiantly and bless those that wait at home.
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This opened my eyes of the danger the Seals are always in and many give their lives so that we can have freedom.  This being a true story was 'special' to me.
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Riveting true story about a man left to fend for himself for 76 days at sea. At first when I saw this book, I did not think it would be too dificult staying at sea that long; don't you just need to relax in the raft, drink your bottled water, eat a few fish, and wait for the next available boat to pick you up? In reading this book, I was exposed to the perils of being at sea, the absolute need to concentrate every ounce of energy (what's remaining, that is) on survival. Among the sharks, the perilous weather and waves, his starvation, rapidly waning energy, and the complete lack of drinking water, the author had to many times pull himself from the relentless urge to just let himself die, battling nearly insurmountabld odds to finally get to dry land. The most touching part of the book was his relationship with a school of dorados, who started out attacking him, and ended up following him the entire journey. In a final touching moment, these fish gave their lives to help his rescuers. I was not interested at all in Callahan's detailed explanations of the tools he fabricated, etc., so the book was a bit techincal for me, but I was able to skip these sections easily. This book will enlighten you to the perils of being at sea and what it takes to survive.
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A very captivating story of a true AMerican hero who overcame all odds to become one of the most decorated Gentle Warriors in US history.  The book takes you through the difficult times all the way up to the battle that ended his life.  This story makes you proud to be an American.  Well done.
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This true story is one that grips the reader.  After his boat sunk, Steven Callahan had no time to grab much of the supplies he had on board.  The urgency was to get off and into the rubber life raft before he went down with the ship.  The difficulty of surviving was intense with thirst and hunger often severe.  His knowledge of boats and the ocean was very helpful to him.  An ordinary person who didn't have this knowledge would not have survived, I don't think.  He was almost constantly trying to make the 2 stills work which would convert ocean water to fresh water, bailing water out of the raft and trying to catch a fish or bird to eat.  The raft was bigger than what was considered needed for 1 person.  However,he was crowded all the time.  I can't imagine how any more people could have been in there.  Definitely makes one think that all such life rafts need to be bigger than the recommendation.  I was intrigued  with his struggles and doubt he could have lasted much longer.  The drain on his body and his emotions was so very heavy, his determination saved him.  National Geographic counts this among the 100 best adventure books ever written and I thoroughly agree.
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This book really captures the essence of Chad Williams, a Navy SEAL, who was a wanderer with no real life purpose. Due to the death of his mentor, Scott Helvenston, who was a SEAL himself, Chad became enraged and disconnected and continued to seek a life of temporary fulfillment, albeit outlandish acts contrary to the law, bouts with alcohol, or outrunning the police(one of funny/not so funny moments in the book). Still unsatisfed and discontent, through God's providence and sovereignty, Chad finds himself vulnerable and listening to the gospel message coming via Greg Laurie and comes to the end of himself and surrenders his life to Jesus.
Chad emphatically portrays the difficulty of living as a Christian among peers in the Navy, showcasing what it is to be despised and rejected as Jesus was, and often times still is, but on the contrary this book conveys and paints a portrait of God's grace and transforming love.

A real page turner and a book I would recommend to others.
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A Corpsmans Legacy by Stephanie Hanson Caisse, is dedicated to her biological father, Gary Norman Young. Stephanie was adopted at birth and raised by two wonderful parents. At 26 she was diagnosed with MS and told she should search out her birth parents to assist in her medical treatment. She soon located her birth mother and learned that her biological father had been killed in Vietnam without ever knowing that he had a daughter soon to be born. She also learned that her father had been a Navy corpsman assigned to a Marine Corps rescue unit.  He died when he was just 20 years old in a Marine helicopter crash. Stephanie was born two months after his death. Her mother, very young herself, was forced to give up the baby for adoption. From the day Stephanie learned of her fathers death, she began a lengthy odyssey to learn all she could about her biological father.
 I had not planned on reading the book nor writing a review of it. My reason was that there had already been enough written about that tragic war run by politicians in Washington. But as I put the book down, something kept pulling me back to it. That something might have been the tenacity and perseverance of the author to unearth knowledge of her fathers death; or it could have been my own memories of flying combat missions in Vietnam; or it might have been because Veterans Day is just around the corner. For whatever reasons the essence of this love story is that it symbolizes and celebrates the deaths of more than 58,000 men who gave their last full measure in that war.
The reader walks every step of the way with Stephanie in her sometimes joyous, sometimes painful journey in search of information about her father.
 I know personally how we depended on the rescue guys to be standing by to pluck us out of the jungle if we had to punch out. The Marines depended upon their rescue guys, the Navy corpsmen assigned to these units to keep them alive.
 Like a forensic detective, Stephanie pursued every lead no matter how insignificant in her efforts to uncover the truth about her fathers shootdown on his first combat mission. Throughout this process she hits many roadblocks but is never deterredshe never loses faith. She also enters into peoples lives along the way by opening up old wounds but eventually assists in healing those wounds in a humanitarian way. Through her efforts, she brought many, many veterans and their families together. Her story is also significant in that it emphasizes the closeness and esprit of military members, especially combat veterans.
If you can read A Corpsmans Legacy without shedding a tear you are probably made of granite. The greatest surprise and honor of all comes at the end of the book, 33 years after Gary Norman Young was shot down.
From an old Air force colonel who flew combat missions in Vietnam, I recommend the book and rate it a strong 4.
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Chad Williams was a self-absorbed child and young man, yet all of his self-importance left him unfulfilled.  It took the horrific death of his mentor to confirm his step onto the path of becoming one of the toughest of all soldiers: a  US Navy SEAL.  Chad's account of the SEAL training humbles the reader, for the tribulation is far beyond even the imagination of ordinary people.  But the hand of God as it has worked in Chad's life is obvious as Chad relates his journey of faith and, now as a soldier of God, reaches out to his readers to hear and heed the call of Christ.
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An absolutely wonderful book.
The part of training to be a Navy seal kept me so tense.
I have to admire anyone who survives this training.
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Brutal descriptions of the world of a Seal, in training and in action. Accurate, however. The "true" story of the near annihilation of an entire Seal team in Afghanistan. I appreciated the insight I gained on the life of Afghanis in the hills of their country and the codes of conduct some of them live by that can seem inexplicable to Westerners. I would issue a caveat, however. This book is attempting to validate the ultimate warrior-patriot ethic and way of life. Check your judgment when you begin reading and only engage in judging that way of life at the end. Regardless, it's quite a tale.
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Hard Way Back is a true story about how lifes twist and turns can change someone. Author and outdoor enthusiast, Kent Kaiser, has been through a terrible ordeal dealing with Alaska and New Zealand's government. Most people would let the trumped up charges against them go unfought and they would settle for whatever fate had in store for them--but not Kent. He fights a battle of immense proportions. With a U.S. Special Agent determined to put him in jail and follows him around the world to do it, he fights tooth and nail to prove his innocence and to unveil the corruptness that can happen in governments. Most people will find what happened to Kent a travesty.

One thing on his adventures leads to another and with it a tornado of trouble. He takes the reader on a three year journey of all the events that he had gone through that led up to him being imprisoned and facing tons of money in possible fines. Kent perservered and with the help of God on his side, fought a battle that would change his life forever.

Readers are going to enjoy this 270 page autobiography. The added photos and letters help the reader understand Kent's frustrations when dealing with the government. Any reader who loves the outdoors and hunts will definetly love this true story.

In the words of Winston Churchill, in which the author is so very fond.

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."