Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior - Hardcover

Denver, Rorke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593072537 ISBN 13: 9780593072530

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2013

Synopsis

With all the Seals' recent successes, we have been getting a level of attention we are not used to. It's been flattering but something important has been missing from the discussion. People keep describing what we do, but no one has even scratched the surface of how and why. The unique psychology behind it. Lieutenant Commander Rorke Denver trains the men who become Navy Seals - some of the most creative problem solvers on the modern battlefield, ideal warriors for the kinds of wars we are now fighting. With his years of action-packed mission experience, Denver understands exactly how tomorrow's soldiers are recruited, sculpted, motivated, and deployed. Now, he takes you inside his personal story and the fascinating, demanding seal training program he has overseen in recent years. He recounts his evolution from a young seal hopeful pushing his way through Hell Week, into a warrior engaging in dangerous stealth missions across the globe, and finally into a lieutenant commander directing the indoctrination, requalification programs, and the "Hero or Zero" missions his graduating seals undertake. Packed with tales from his own training and missions overseas, Denver details how the seals' creative operations became front and center in the global War on Terror, eventually capturing and killing Osama bin Laden, and how deployment of the seals is changing battlefields the world over. Through the course of his story, you'll see why damn few make it, and what it takes to become one of them.

About this title

About the Author

In fourteen years as a SEAL officer, Lieutenant Commander Rorke Denver has tangled with drug lords in Latin America, stood up to violent mobs in Liberia, and battled terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan. The leader of over 200 commando missions, he earned a Bronze Star with 'V' for valour. He spent the past four years as executive officer to the Navy Special Warfare Center's Advanced Training Command in Coronado, California, directing all phases of the basic and advanced SEAL training. He is married and has two daughters. Ellis Henican is a columnist at Newsday and on-air commentator at the Fox News Channel. He has written two recent New York Times bestsellers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593072537
• ISBN 13: 9780593072530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304