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.

Could not turn it off

I started listening to this book yesterday morning and barely turned it off before completing the first six hours. The story of the making of an elite Navy Seal was gripping. The reader was pleasant to listen to and even did accents for some of the the different non-American players in the story.
From five years old to "retirement" from the Seals, the author tells a gripping tale of the high-stakes world of the elite Navy Seals.

Great training for our enemies

Enjoyed this book but again find our leaders just waste our young men with lack of planning and proper support.

Enjoyed

I liked this book. Was very enjoyable as well as easy to listen to. The narrator did a nice job.

Very interesting and I feel connected to him

Listening to this book was very insightful to me, just hearing about BUDS training and hell week. Along with his interactions with Delta Force, QRF, and other seals. this has a special place in my heart since my grandfather was a SEAL. But I genuinely feel connected to Howard E. Wasdin and his life. It's simply incredible to hear what these people go through.

great story telling while keeping secrets out. usa

farther was an army Sniper. he never shared stories but he did teach me his trade. now my sons are interested in this lifestyle. Christians and motivated who knows where this book takes them

You gotta love SEAL humor

This book is a great first person account that takes you through training, missions, and family life for one of America's elite warriors. I made my friends read this book.

And if you don't laugh about the "front butt", you have no soul. :D

The realness of the lives of a Special Forces team

I wasn't sure if I would like the book as it is a biography but I decided to try it. I went from slightly bored to the point that I just kept wanting to hear more and more. The experiences this Navy Seal talks about were so fascinating I didn't want to even go to dinner. I laughed, I cried and most of all I felt the frustration the Special Forces people had in the Somalia desert, trying to catch a dictator who was trying to take control of the country. Listening to this book makes me want to read more from Seals, Delta Force, Army Rangers and other Special forces members about their experiences as part of the military elites. It is a little technical but anyone who has read the fiction stories about being a SEAL or other books will recognize so some of the words used. If you are a Clancy fan, this is the real thing - pick this up.

Great read!

A great book. Enjoyed listening and makes you so thankful for the courage and sacrifice of our military personnel.

Informational

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

Top 20%

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

The test of indurance needed for the training.

What about Ray Porter’s performance did you like?

Made you feel like your there.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no

good story

this is a well told story about 1 mans journey before, during & after working in SOF. it helps people know, there is something else out there after the military.