[NA] SEAL Honored by New Ship

Some really good books to read on the SEALs are Warrior Elite and Finishing School both by Dick Couch, a Navy SEAL who was able to write a respectful and true account of what it takes to make a SEAL.

I've just started reading Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, the one guy that survived the attack for which the above mentioned SEAL is being honored.

It's been said that SEAL team six expends more rounds of live ammunition in training than the entire Marine Corp on an annual basis.
 
Another good book, Just a Sailor, was written by an acquaintance who was a couple years behind me in high school in Rockland, Maine. Steve Waterman was not a SEAL; he was a Navy diver(and photographer) and detests people who claim to have been a SEAL and to have done this and that in battles. One fellow once wrote on this forum that he was in a certain operation of SEAL in Vietnam, yada yada. I e-mailed a copy of said dissertation to Steve who came back with, "That imposter is a flat-out liar who's seeking unwarranted glory. I was in that maneuver and know every single man who was -- and he wasn't one of us."

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Sailor-Divers-Photography-Salvage/dp/0804119376

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1815144.Just_a_Sailor

When Steve was in high school he was, in winter, known to break the lakes' ice to go diving and do photo work.

HR

EDIT: Steve told me, recently, that he put out a new edition which has photos not previously published. I think he markets it by himself through his website.
http://swaterman.com/
 
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After reading the accounts of men like Lt Michael Murphy I feel so inadequate and that I have wasted my life.


I would also like to nominate that Jerry be placed on the National Historical Registry. He is an asset.
 
PittsDriver said:
Some really good books to read on the SEALs are Warrior Elite and Finishing School both by Dick Couch, a Navy SEAL who was able to write a respectful and true account of what it takes to make a SEAL.

I've just started reading Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, the one guy that survived the attack for which the above mentioned SEAL is being honored.

It's been said that SEAL team six expends more rounds of live ammunition in training than the entire Marine Corp on an annual basis.
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calling bs on the last part

on another note glad they are naming a ship after that man...

so proud of our seals
 
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Luttrell's book is a really good read.
 
skylanerg said:
+1 major bs
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I may not have the fact right. It was in the book The Finishing School. I don't have the book with me but it was either SEAL team six or it could have been just the SEAL Teams in general that fire more training rounds per year than all of the Marine Corp. Personally, after reading these two books about the way they qualify and train, I believe it. It's just part of what makes them the most capable and lethal warriors on the planet along side the SAS.
 
dennyleeb said:
calling bs on the last part

on another note glad they are naming a ship after that man...

so proud of our seals
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NO its absolutely correct. Reason being the Navy doesn't give the Marines enough money to buy more ammo. For over 200 years the Marines have masterfully done more with less.
 
Calling bs again. My nbr 1 son is Corps. Home is Camp Pendleton. Currently stationed Camp Schwab, Okinawa. Then Australia and Med (Libya adjacent). Training foreign forces in amphibious assault. His platoon alone expends 1000's of rounds daily.

Nbr 2 son is a B-52 Crew Chief stationed Minot. He's just beginning to thaw out.
 
My nephew, newly commissioned 2Lt, USMC, would probably bristle at the suggestion.

Regardless of its truth....!!!!!


(For the record, I am so friggin' proud of him, and how hard he worked to get to OCS and be a multiple honor graduate, any goofing on the USMC is in well-meant good humor only.)
 
A typical SEAL definately gets MUCH more trigger time in than a typical Infantry Marine, or any other "mainstream" combat arm grunt. Whether or not the stated fact is true, relating SEAL's to the entire Marine Corps' expended round counts is rather daunting...but on an individual scale, SEAL's shoot a heckuva lot more...
 
skylanerg said:
Calling bs again. My nbr 1 son is Corps. Home is Camp Pendleton. Currently stationed Camp Schwab, Okinawa. Then Australia and Med (Libya adjacent). Training foreign forces in amphibious assault. His platoon alone expends 1000's of rounds daily.

Nbr 2 son is a B-52 Crew Chief stationed Minot. He's just beginning to thaw out.
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His platoon? Each SEAL expends thousands of rounds daily just in SQT before they've received their trident. Hey, nobody here, especially me, is saying that Marines aren't proficient warriors but SEALs didn't get their record and reputation by training no harder than anyone else.

Thank you and your sons for their service.
 
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