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Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on May 4, 2013 at 9:43am

just started:

"As a Navy SEAL during a combat deployment in Iraq, Mike Ritland saw a military working dog in action and instantly knew he’d found his true calling. Ritland started his own company training and supplying dogs for the SEAL teams, U.S. Government, and Department of Defense. He knew that fewer than 1 percent of all working dogs had what it takes to contribute to the success of our nation’s elite combat units, and began searching the globe for animals who fit this specific profile. These specialized canines had to pass rigorous selection tests before their serious training could begin.

The results were a revelation: highly trained working dogs capable of handling both detection and apprehension work in the most extreme environments and the tensest of battlefield conditions. Though fiercely aggressive and athletic, these dogs develop a close bond with the handlers they work side by side with and the other team members. Truly integrating themselves into their units, these K9 warriors are much like their human counterparts—unwavering in their devotion to duty, strong enough and tough enough to take it to the enemy through pain, injury, or fear.

For the first time ever, Trident K9 Warriors gives readers an inside look at these elite canines—who they are, how they are trained, and the extreme missions they undertake saving countless lives, asking for little in the way of reward. From detecting explosives to eliminating the bad guys, these powerful dogs are also some of the smartest and most highly skilled working animals on the planet."

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on March 30, 2013 at 8:40pm

now read (by the same author)

Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

 

from Hornfischer's webpage:

Neptune’s Inferno (2011) is an intimately cast epic narrative of the brutal naval campaign for the seas around Guadalcanal Island in late 1942. America’s first concerted offensive of World War II, the six-month contest for control of those vital seaways involved seven major naval battles in which the U.S. proved it had the implacable will to match the Imperial Japanese war machine blow for violent blow. Written from new interviews with survivors, unpublished eyewitness accounts, and newly available documents, it is the first major work on this essential subject in almost two decades.

Comment by Bill Black on March 30, 2013 at 8:38pm

It's been out a while but just read "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"! Awesome book! The United States Navy at one of its finest times!

Comment by Ray Norberto on March 29, 2013 at 10:48am

Thanks Paul! THE LAST MAN is rockin pretty good right now, a novel set in the clandestine world below the crap rock that is Afghanistan. Good twists.

Another good motivational read is Richard Machowicz' UNLEASH THE WARRIOR WITHIN. I'm 'unleashing' some principles on my Senior division team of 13-15 year old players. Things like: Target/Weapon/Movement. 

and - 

NDCQ (Not dead can't quit). Good stuff!

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on March 16, 2013 at 2:54pm

Ray....FEARLESS will demonstrate the power of faith, prayer, and determination.....

Comment by Ray Norberto on March 16, 2013 at 2:53pm

I also just finished NO EASY DAY. I knew the story, I had seen the 60 Minutes story interviewing him, and yet I was riveted and devoured it.

I also read INTO THE FIRE by Dakota Meyer, also heart stopping. What our young American warriors endure fills me with awe.

I have to read some fiction now, so I'm reading James Rollins' BLOOD GOSPEL and Vince Flynn's THE LAST MAN. Then I think I can tackle FEARLESS!

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on March 8, 2013 at 6:45am

Just over half through Fearless......what an amazing story of SEAL perseverance....insurmountable odds yet made it to DEVGRU.....think you could take a sim round to your dominate eye and in less than a year teach yourself to shoot left handed and excel in the NSW sniper school? Adam Brown did......

Comment by Bill Black on March 4, 2013 at 9:29pm

I just read "No Easy Day". Couldn't put it down. My heart was pounding like I was part of the DEVGRU team going in after UBL.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on March 4, 2013 at 8:14pm

next book:

Fearless takes you deep into SEAL Team SIX and straight to the heart of one of its most legendary operators.

When Navy SEAL Adam Brown woke up on March 17, 2010, he didn’t know he would die that night in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan - but he was ready: In a letter to his children, not meant to be seen unless the worst happened, he wrote, “I’m not afraid of anything that might happen to me on this earth, because I know no matter what, nothing can take my spirit from me.”

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on February 18, 2013 at 8:50am

Here are two new Navy SEAL titles that are coming out very soon:

Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior

This book will take you inside the personal journey of Lieutenant Commander Rorke Denver and the fascinating, demanding SEAL training program he now oversees. Denver and Newsday columnist Ellis Henican write about what it takes to become one of the nation’s most elite warriors and how the Navy SEALs evolved into America’s best protectors in the post-9/11 world.

Denver, who has fourteen years of experience as SEAL officer, shares his story as a recruit, a platoon leader and a training officer for the U.S. Navy SEALs. He details how the SEALs’ creative operations became front and center in America’s War on Terror—and how they are altering warfare everywhere.

Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior is set to hit Amazon and Barnes & Noble on Feb. 19.

Battle Ready: Memoir of a SEAL Warrior Medic

Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. Donald  shares in this 352-page memoir his journey from the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of the battlefield. The book immerses the reader in the unique life of the elite warrior-medic who advances into combat with life-saving equipment in one hand and life-taking weapons in the other. It also touches on how he struggled and survived the demons caused by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that threatened to destroy him and his family.

According to his service record, Donald began his military career as a Reconnaissance Marine in 1985. In 1987, following his transfer to the U.S. Navy as a Hospital corpsman, he began service as a SEAL Corpsman. He served the nation for 24 years as a Navy SEAL, Corpsman and Medical Service Corps officer.

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