Publisher's Synopsis
The United States Navy Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) Teams, commonly known as Navy SEALs, are the U.S. Navy's primary special operations force and a component of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Among the SEALs' main functions are conducting small-unit special operation missions in maritime, jungle, urban, arctic, mountainous, and desert environments. SEALs are typically ordered to capture or to eliminate high-level targets, or to gather intelligence behind enemy lines.
The author has lived an exciting life that has included an eight-year enlistment in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear submarine crewman and nuclear instructor for the U.S. Navy. As a Vietnam-era veteran (1968-1976), the author imparts his experiences and insights into emphasizing aspects of the soldier's career in a time of war. His life before enlisting into the Army is told in brief segments in a manner that reveals his relationship with his parents, his personal character, and his interests. The author details the soldier experiences in the Army both inside and outside of war zones. The thoughts and worries of the author and his wife for the safety of their son are expressed throughout this book. The author included in his story a generous number of unedited e-mails that the soldier had sent home..........
The author was tormented that perhaps he had missed opportunities to steer his son down a path where he would have outlived his father. Once the author began to write this book, he came to believe that other parents might find relief in his book...
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