Rogue Warrior
Red Cell
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4.5 • 346 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career—and the riveting truth about the top-secret Navy SEALs.
Marcinko was almost inhumanly tough, and proved it on hair-raising missions across Vietnam and a war-torn world: blowing up supply junks, charging through minefields, jumping at 19,000 feet with a chute that wouldn't open, fighting hand-to-hand in a hellhole jungle. For the Pentagon, he organized the Navy's first counterterrorist unit: the legendary SEAL TEAM SIX, which went on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea, Africa and beyond.
Then Marcinko was tapped to create Red Cell, a dirty-dozen team of the military's most accomplished and decorated counterterrorists. Their unbelievable job was to test the defenses of the Navy's most secure facilities and installations. The result was predictable: all hell broke loose.
Here is the hero who saw beyond the blood to ultimate justice—and the decorated warrior who became such a maverick that the Navy brass wanted his head on a pole, and for a time, got it. Richard Marcinko—ROGUE WARRIOR.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
One of the most controversial veterans of the U.S. Navy's amphibious commando unit, whose troops are known as SEALs, Marcinko describes his combat adventures in Southeast Asia and his counterterrorist activities. A 10-week PW bestseller in cloth. Photos.
Customer Reviews
Great Read
I have spent time looking for good books about being a warrior. After reading this one all of the others pale in comparison.
True Warrior!
I picked this book up ten years ago shortly after I joined the military. I read it once every other year or so, along with his other Rogue Warrior books. Eye opening and truthfully gritty recollections of the birth of U.S. Special Operations...and the political games that the nerds in command can play.
Life of a real life GI JOE
Marcinko's accounts his days as a USNavy frogman turned Seal turned commanding officer. From Vietnam to retirement, Demo Dick gives a roller coaster ride of the 60's, 70's and 80's in the covert ops spectrum.
The book is interesting and educational.
The book is more than glorious stories of our hero. It explains how the complex hierarchy of the Navy works (and fails).