In this vivid memoir, a young man's search for meaning takes him from college in the 1950s to the edge of everything-riding a wild bull in a rodeo, hitchhiking across America, battling forest fires, commanding a destroyer under a mercurial captain, and enduring the punishing trials of UDT-SEAL training. Along the way, he finds adventure, absurdity, and moments of unexpected grace. Gritty, funny, and unsentimental, the book offers a rare insider's look at the formative years of the Navy's most elite warriors and a generation that refused to live safely.
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Raised in the remote West Texas town of Sonora, Jack Ratliff took undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas. He spent four years in the Navy, first as a deck officer on a destroyer and then as a Navy SEAL. He practiced law in El Paso for twenty years, then taught at the UT Law School for twenty years. He and his wife live in Santa Fe.
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