One Perfect Op - Hardcover

Chalker USN, Dennis C. Command Master; Dockery, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0380978040 ISBN 13: 9780380978045

Publisher: William Morrow, 2002

Synopsis

A first-person account of the U.S. Navy's elite SEAL Team Six describes the unit's specialized counterterrorist operations and the missions in which it has been involved, in a memoir that captures the unique dedication, courage, and determination it takes to be a special warfare soldier.

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From the Back Cover:

No elite military commando unit since the darkest days of Korea and Vietnam has a more storied history than the U.S. Navy SEALs, a stealth fighting force legendary for its abilities to wage covert war on sea, air, and land. Now former SEAL Command Master Chief Dennis "Snake" Chalker takes us deep inside the celebrated SEAL Team Six for an astonishing, firsthand look at the formation, preparation, and deployment of a crack detachment meticulously trained for an ongoing mission that has become essential to the survival of our nation: counterterrorism.

When Dennis Chalker joined Army Airborne in the early 1970s he was, by his own admission, a fairly typical young man from the Midwest. After his initial tour of duty—and a brief, unsatisfactory stint as a civilian—he volunteered to be a candidate for "the Teams," elite Naval Special Forces units known for their "outside the envelope" approach to warfare and their ability to strike any target, no matter how heavily guarded or impossible to reach.

After enduring BUD/S (Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL) training—the most rigorous selection process ever devised—Chalker rose rapidly through the ranks and was personally chosen by "Rogue Warrior" Richard Marcinko for a leadership role in Red Cell. Together they would push special operations warfare to a level it had never achieved before.

From the Granada action to electrifying events in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, Chalker now describes in stunning detail previously classified operations in the war against global terrorism. And at the center of his riveting, compelling, and astonishingly honest account is one remarkable covert mission in which daring, timing, skill, and cunning worked in concert to accomplish what in SEALs parlance is known as a "perfect op": one in which enemy territory is successfully penetrated and the objective achieved without any evidence left behind to indicate that the SEALs were even there.

Never before has a book given readers as spellbinding a look at the detailed inner workings of the U.S. Navy SEALs—from a mission's planning and preparation to its successful completion. And never has there been a truer, more intimate portrait of the extraordinary brotherhood of warriors who today are on the front lines of the most devastating conflict of our age, the war that America must win.

Synopsis:

Considered one of the most elite fighting forces in the US military, Seal Team Six specialises in counter-terrorist operations. In this comprehensive first-person history, Master Chief Boatswain Mate Dennis Chalker reveals the missions and perils he encountered as "plankowner" - a founding member of this elite unit - over the past two decades. A Perfect Op is an operation in which a mission is completed without discovery of intervention. Chalker tells of one such Perfect Op where his team successfully penetrated enemy territory, completed their objective, and left without trace - a story unknown until now. An action-packed true tale, this riveting first-hand account illuminates the dedication, guts, and phenomenal drive it takes to be a special warfare soldier.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0380978040
• ISBN 13: 9780380978045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332