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Combat Swimmer
Memoirs of a Navy Seal
by Robert A. Gormly
ISBN: 0451193024
ISBN-13: 9780451193025
Format: Paperback
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Summary
The combat memoirs of a Navy SEAL who served in the Vietnam War. Gormley maintains that American military strategy in Vietnam was deeply flawed, and that more emphasis should have been placed on attacking the Communist "cadres" that organized and ran terrorist operations in the villages. Eventually Gormley became commander of SEAL Team 6 and helped to capture the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship "Achille Lauro" in 1985.
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"A candid and unstinting military memoir."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Onyx Books
Published date: 1999
Size: 4.25 x 6.75 inches
Weight: 0.35 pounds
Pages: 320
Publisher's Notes
Often called "The Elite of the Elite," the U.S. Navy SEALs are survivors of the most rigorous physical and mental training the military has to offer and the fiercest human weapons of our defense. Sharp, swift, and silent, the SEALs created a legend that would grow throughout the Vietnam War and earn an enemy bounty for their capture dead or alive. Now, Captain Robert A. Gormly, the highest ranking SEAL to write his memoir, tells about his days as the leader of this remarkable fighting machine taking us into the night, the water, and into battle on some of the most hair-raising missions ever assigned.
Trained to a fine fighting edge just in time for Vietnam, Gormly served two tours of duty, as well as engaging in top-secret missions in the Persian Gulf. Here, he shares his viewpoint an his experience including what is perhaps the most graphic description ever of SEAL action in the invasion of Grenada. Plunged by chance into a life of danger, Gormly takes us behind the myth of this awesome team, revealing how their lives and ultimately our own depend on their unprecedented expertise.
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