SEAL Team Six

Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper

By: Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin

Narrated by: Ray Porter

Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's summary

When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit tasked with counterterrorism, hostage rescue, and counterinsurgency.

In this dramatic, behind-the-scenes chronicle, Howard Wasdin takes listeners deep inside the world of Navy SEALs and Special Forces snipers, beginning with the grueling selection process of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL - the toughest and longest military training in the world.

After graduating, Wasdin faced new challenges. First, there was combat in Operation Desert Storm as a member of SEAL Team Two. Then, the Green Course: the selection process to join the legendary SEAL Team Six (ST6), with a curriculum that included practiced land warfare to unarmed combat. More than learning how to pick a lock, they learned how to blow the door off its hinges.

Finally, as member of ST6, he graduated from the most storied and challenging sniper program in the country: the Marine Corps Scout Sniper School. Eventually, of the 18 snipers in ST6, Wasdin became the best—which meant one of the best snipers on the planet.

Less than half a year after sniper school, he was fighting for his life. The mission: capture or kill Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. From rooftops, helicopters, and alleys, Wasdin hunted Aidid and killed his men whenever possible. But everything went quickly to hell when his small band of soldiers found themselves fighting for their lives, cut off from help and desperately trying to rescue downed comrades during a routine mission. The Battle of Mogadishu, as it became known, left 18 American soldiers dead and 73 wounded. Howard Wasdin had both of his legs nearly blown off while engaging the enemy. His explosive combat tales and inside details of becoming one of the world’s deadliest snipers combine to make this the most thrilling and important memoir by a navy SEAL since Lone Survivor.

©2011 Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Nice read

Good book. lots of interesting information and powerful situations. its good to know there are real men looking after this country.

Not just for military buffs!

What made the experience of listening to SEAL Team Six the most enjoyable?

The story is incredible and unexpected. I will recommend this to my Mother, even though she is not really someone who would normally be interested in a book about Navy Seals.

Great heros, good book!

What did you love best about SEAL Team Six?

The story.

Any additional comments?

Lone Survivor is probably a little better book but they are both heros!

Read it!

Would you listen to SEAL Team Six again? Why?

I'm not one to listen to books twice, but if I were forced to do it this would be toward the top of the list.

Which character – as performed by Ray Porter – was your favorite?

Of course Wasdin

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When the seals tied up the family living next door when they are in samolia so they wouldnt have to worry about the family attacking them while the seals gave their child antibiotics and saved his gangrenous legs from killing him.

Any additional comments?

In the end the auther is a very unbiased guy who realizes there is more to life than the military but tells a great story about a bunch of amazingly dedicated,crazy,heroic people.

Excellent

Great story. Perfect performance. A must read - listen book. make sure you have time because you won't be able to stop this when you start.

wow

narrator fit perfectly. engaging story, very manly and sometimes unlikable seal, but he never gives up

Totally captivating! (I couldn't put it down)

This story was very interesting and there were so many layers to it from his childhood through his military service and his life afterwards. I'm so glad I purchased this audiobook.. The narrator made it even better!

Great read

I thought this was a great insight into a area of our military that is rarely heard about in the public. I thought Howard's stories of the training and commitment the brave men and women go through in service of our country is amazing.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn about what it takes to serve at the highest level in our military.

excellent read!

I really enjoyed this book. The universal themes of honor, commitment, and courage allowed me to relate to the author in my own way.

Amazing!

Thank you Mr Wasdin for you sacrifice and love for our country and what it takes to be free.