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.

Different View

I enjoyed hearing about a Navy Seal from a different perspective. Mr. Ears in endured a pretty terrible childhood, but rose above it and experienced quite a ride after Buds. I highly recommend it, if you are ready for a cynical look at a Seal's journey through life thus far.

Awesome military book with almost no swearing!

I loved this book. I’m a sucker for books like Black Hawk Down and Lone Survivor. This book was refreshingly rated PG-13, which I really appreciated.

This book held my attention the entire time, and the narrator was great! This book was so good that I’m sad it’s over.

Great listen, worth the time for an understanding

SEAL sniper, a worthy goal for anyone. However, one should review many true story’s like this one to know that life is so precious and effort is required throughout life. Perhaps a similar effort without the risk of death? Thank you for your service.

Great book

This is actually one of the best books on the training and military life of a Seal soldier that I have ever read. The author is talented. Book is engrossing. You have to be awed by the author's physical prowess, skill, and mental strength and also by the personal sacrifice these elite soldiers make by serving in the military...ie. no real home life. The culminating scene in the book involving some kind of military raid in Mogadishu makes you wonder why Americans were there at all....their mission seemed pointless and failed....and for their efforts, the entire team was shot up to bits. A brilliant soldier and writer...as always one wonders what could be achieved if this energy and leadership were focused on progressive projects in 3rd world countries instead of military maneuvers....if that were possible.

I laughed...I teared up...I recommend...

A HIGHLY recommended book! A well narrated story...easy to follow the ebb and flow of the author's lifestory

Great Listen, with an exception towards the end.

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

If you're into learning about what drives a person to be in the SEALs and what it is like to be in SEAL Team 6, this is a great listen. I very much enjoy learning about life in the teams as well as what personal experiences the author had that motivated him to enter the SEALs.

At the end, the book goes a bit off topic and strays onto the benefits of chiropractic medicine of all things. A bit odd, but really doesn't ruin the experience of a otherwise great listen.

great read

loved the stire. inside store of his life. it was oersonal and thrilling too. thank you.

Excellent

Great read. One that can be read/heard multiple times. Thank you Howard Wasdin for your service and for sharing your story.

Amazing story about a SEALs journey.

Awesome to hear the story about one man's journey to becoming a SEAL and all his training and missions with life stories mixed in.

Extremely compelling book, and voice over!!!

Could not put the book down! Unlike other readers, I was able to finish the book and just a few short days! Former Navy Seal Howard Wasdin wrote an incredible story! The incredible trials from BUDs/UDT training, his service over seas as Seal Team Two, then on to selection for Seal Team Six, then through a lot of experiences, along with this fellow Seal Team 6 operators! Extremely compelling listening filled with laughter, sorrow, triumph, and redemption!