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.

Narrator was fabulous!

Story was full of operator details but after protagonist resumed his civilian life, it seemed not as rich.

Outstanding Listen

The author delivers an enthralling and captivating history of his experience as a member of the US Navy SEALs. This gentleman, one badass mother, is somehow able to maintain humility in tone while sharing his experience. The narrator also gave a very good rendition.

Excellent non-fiction SEAL Team Six book!

If you want to understand what SEAL training is like, this is the best book I have found. The book covers some sniper action as well as training. Outstanding non-fiction well narrated.

Outstanding Book

Well written and narrated. Really enjoyed it. Makes you stop and think about the sacrifices that our men and women make for this country.

Awesome!

I like the way the author goes back and forth between different stages of his life (e.g. SEAL training then childhood then war then back to SEAL training, etc.). He ties all those different things together really well so that they build on each other.

Goid story. Good Narration.

I waa listening to the story when my husband came in. He sat down and both of us were rivited to the story for hours. Narrator us superb! Heartbreaking beginning. Inspiring how he turned his difficulties into victories in his career! Thank you for your service !!❤

Loved this book!

A wonderful, gripping story that I had to continue listening to every time I got in the car. sad it had to end.

Very believeable

Refreshing! No out of this world powers or skills, just the story of a guy who became a sniper, before, during and after.

I enjoyed a seal thoughts on Granada, and Somalia.

Where does SEAL Team Six rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It was very enjoyable if you like, Griffin. I very much liked it most likely to listen again. I've also listened to Dick Marcinko rogue warrior. I like them both

What was one of the most memorable moments of SEAL Team Six?

Somalia

What does Ray Porter bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

The voice is what you think Howard Wasdin would sound like.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

Any additional comments?

I found the the history of his childhood, and post Seal life to ad great perspective.

Great book

Really enjoyed hearing the story of the battle of Mogadishu from somebody who is there as well as the past history of seal team six.