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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
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Definitely worth the read as it goes into nearly minute by minute details of Operation Red Wings, the team’s dynamics, their mission and how it failed, and their attempt to evade capture.
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On the basis of everything within these pages, I will give this book 1 star.
I understand that this is a true story, and the events happened. I feel that maybe if it were told less from the surviving member, I would be less irritated at the writing.
I commend every single service member for their duty and service, and have nothing against Luttrell, and I realize that by being a Navy SEAL, he has gone through some tough training. However; that does not forgive the bragging sound of the re-telling of events. Facts are fine, and are what I read this book for. Explaining SEAL school was also quite riveting, but as soon as he puts in his dime's worth of at-a-boys' to himself, I want to skip ahead.
This is a sad loss of life for the other three members of his squad as well as those who went in to rescue him, and I do not question his judgement nor choices. I just find that their is no room for arrogance here. Confidence is good, and required, but Arrogance is dirty, and I hated that aspect of this.
Again, this is not meant for disrespect, because this is a trial that I have never had to suffer, and God bless Luttrell for making it out of their alive, but this is middle-line non-fiction for me.
After a full night of deliberation on this, I feel that this is a wasted space on a book shelf. This man is a survivor and not a hero, which the book tries to make Luttrell seem like a hero. He is not. He survived. He made a poor choice, and survived.
I understand that this is a true story, and the events happened. I feel that maybe if it were told less from the surviving member, I would be less irritated at the writing.
I commend every single service member for their duty and service, and have nothing against Luttrell, and I realize that by being a Navy SEAL, he has gone through some tough training. However; that does not forgive the bragging sound of the re-telling of events. Facts are fine, and are what I read this book for. Explaining SEAL school was also quite riveting, but as soon as he puts in his dime's worth of at-a-boys' to himself, I want to skip ahead.
This is a sad loss of life for the other three members of his squad as well as those who went in to rescue him, and I do not question his judgement nor choices. I just find that their is no room for arrogance here. Confidence is good, and required, but Arrogance is dirty, and I hated that aspect of this.
Again, this is not meant for disrespect, because this is a trial that I have never had to suffer, and God bless Luttrell for making it out of their alive, but this is middle-line non-fiction for me.
After a full night of deliberation on this, I feel that this is a wasted space on a book shelf. This man is a survivor and not a hero, which the book tries to make Luttrell seem like a hero. He is not. He survived. He made a poor choice, and survived.
An incredible story of the will to survive in the absolute worst of circumstances. A true testament to the spirit of America's fighting elite. I just wish he would have left the politics out of it.
It was awful, only chose to leave a review so I could bring the rating down
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Very successfully delivers on its promise to be bad-ass. Three things that stuck with me: wisely running on the temporarily solid wave soaked section of beach; the impossible decision of how to deal with the wandering shepherd; and obviously the firefight itself.
I'm not sure whether studying for Quals is any more or less challenging than becoming a Navy Seal, bu this book certainly gave me a framework for understanding what I was going through.
I'm not sure whether studying for Quals is any more or less challenging than becoming a Navy Seal, bu this book certainly gave me a framework for understanding what I was going through.
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What an amazing story! Don't let Luttrell's political views get in the way of a truly remarkable and thrilling story of survival. I loved the in depth description of the author's training to become an elite Navy SEAL. The book takes off once Marcus's SEAL team is sent on a mission to find the big bad. We owe a lot to service members who sacrifice everything to do their job. Luttrell gets a little political throughout the book but if you're a conservative, you won't mind his views. High recommendation.
Really compelling story and insight into the training that SEALs go through. The author often breaks into angry rants against anyone or anything liberal, which didn't progress his story at all, but "liberal" media/beliefs/people/etc. are presented as a caricature in these rants, so they were easy enough to overlook in favor of the interesting subject matter.
The author clearly survived quite an ordeal and I have nothing but respect for what he went through in preparation for defending our country, and then in Afghanistan.
After I finished this book, I moved onto Ambrose's "The Victors", and it's really interesting to note the difference in training used during WWII by the Airborne and Rangers vs. what the author of this book talked about for SEALs. It makes you wonder what it would have been like had we had our modern day SEALs back in WWII.
The author clearly survived quite an ordeal and I have nothing but respect for what he went through in preparation for defending our country, and then in Afghanistan.
After I finished this book, I moved onto Ambrose's "The Victors", and it's really interesting to note the difference in training used during WWII by the Airborne and Rangers vs. what the author of this book talked about for SEALs. It makes you wonder what it would have been like had we had our modern day SEALs back in WWII.