Making of "Us Navy Seals": The Making of Us Navy Seals - Softcover

John Carl Roat

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9780804118934: Making of "Us Navy Seals": The Making of Us Navy Seals

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ISBN 10: 0804118930 ISBN 13: 9780804118934

Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc., 2000

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"Throughout training I kept having the thought,
WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.
It seemed to help."
SEALs are the world's toughest soldiers. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude parachute drops. Now John Carl Roat, graduate of Class-29, one of the earliest SEAL training classes, has written the only book devoted to the training of that exclusive warrior force. With unflinching honesty, Roat describes the brutal six-month program that took young men well beyond the endurance limits even of gifted athletes and created warriors who could proudly take their places in the teams. It was a program so demanding that by the end of Hell Week, the third week of the course, the original class of one hundred and thirty-four physically fit young men had been sliced to sixty-two.
After retelling his own class's experience, Roat visits today's SEAL program and reveals how the program has changed over the last thirty-five years to include more classroom training and better and more sophisticated equipment-- without at all lowering the physical demands. SEAL training is still the best, and the toughest, training in the world."

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Review:

"Class 29 is a true and honest portrayal of the men and the challenges of a special group of Americans."

- Roy Boehm -- Author FIRST SEAL

"I feel that this book should be required reading for anyone contemplating going through BUD/S."

—R. D. Russell --Naval Special Warfare Archives

"This book is every class and feeling."

—Jesse Ventura --Governor Jess Ventura

I loved it. I went out and bought new running shoes.

Review by Dan Swearingen --BookBrowser.Com

From the Author:

SEAL Team, what it takes to be one of the ULTIMATE TEAM
"Throughout training I kept having the thought, WELL, ALL THEY CAN DO IS KILL ME.It seemed to help." SEALs are among the world's toughest fighting men. Working in squads and platoons that make up SEAL teams, they are trained in everything from underwater demolition to high-altitude parachute drops. Now John Carl Roat, graduate of Class-29, one of the earliest SEAL training classes, has written the only book devoted to the training of that exclusive warrior force. With unflinching honesty, Roat describes the brutal six-month program that took young men well beyond the endurance limits even of gifted athletes and created warriors who could proudly take their places in the teams. It was a program so demanding that by the end of Hell Week, the third week of the course, the original class of one hundred and thirty-four physically fit young men had been sliced to sixty-two.

After retelling his own class's experience, Roat visits today's SEAL program and reveals how the program has changed over the last thirty-five years to include more classroom training and better and more sophisticated equipment- without at all lowering the physical demands. SEAL training is still the best, and the toughest, training in the world.

FORWARD and BACKWARD

To quote Rush Limbaugh, "War is about killing people and breaking things." I have done it, war is not a lot of fun, and intellectually there is little to defend the practice. Notice I did not say nothing, I said "little," and it is a damn BIG little.

It is this simple, if they are willing to kill people and break things, and you are not, they win. One ugly fact about human nature is: If someone will not fight for what is theirs, they lose it. This book is about some of the men who choose to be ready to fight. Next to my wife and children, I am more proud of becoming a member of this group of men, then anything else I've done in my life.

Around fourth grade I saw a movie, it was "The Frogmen" with Richard Widmark. When I walked out of that theater, my life's ambition was firmly fixed in every cell of my body. You could have offered me GOD'S job, the presidency, anything, I would have turned it down. I was going to be a United States Navy Frogman.

This book is about the test to become a Frogman, the men I took it with, and the men who gave it to us. We were tested by the BEST, and I thank them. Our instructors had all taken the test, they knew the pain, and what all the craziness was about. In a way, this test was just about finding those who would not take the easy way out. When your back is to the wall, it is easy to fight. The only real question is, what do you do when there is an easy way out?

Remember these are the people that stand ready to do the bad business of war. Before you label them as sadistic, antiquated, warmongers, think about what you have to lose. Now ask yourself this simple question, "When someone wants to break my things and kill me, who do I want watching my back?"

Training is the TEST!

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