Newly Notable - The Navy SEALs

Want to know more about the men who brought down Osama Bin Laden? What goes into to making a Navy SEAL? Here are a couple new titles with insight into these special forces.

The Heart and the Fist: the education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL.
Eric Greitens is a Rhodes scholar and an Oxford Phd. He traveled the world working as a humanitarian. Seeking a way to act to prevent the carnage he has witnessed, he joins the Navy SEALs and finds a new way to live a life of service and fulfill his credo "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature." (John Stuart Mill)

SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of a Elite Navy SEAL Sniper.
SEAL team six is the elite of the elite. The least spoken of of the secret. Howard Wadin relates his experiences trying out and training as a Navy SEAL. His experience of warfare and the selection process to become a member of the elite SEAL Team Six. He trained as a sniper. Then he relates the horrific combat experience that was the Battle of Mogadishu in Somalia, memorialized in the book/movie Black Hawk Down.

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