Great book on Special Forces soldiers

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	• Chosen Soldier: The Making of a Special Forces Warrior Dick Couch Crown, 2007 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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Excellent

Good outline of the training; no criticisms of training, personnel, or practices; surely something should have been better (and the course is changing all the time).

Pretty Good Read

Pretty good read. Good insights into the type of men SF are looking for. A beeter book to me was Inside Delta Force.

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Chosen Soldier

Book was reasonably priced. I wasn't aware in the shipping that it could take up to 13-14 days but in the end the book arrive in about 1 week which was fine.

The chosen Review

I remember having a conversation with a friend of mine and we were trying to figure out what training produced a more deadly efficent incredible (man/soldier/warrior) although, I am more biased towards the navy seals, as my son is one, my friend was formerly in the special forces. He recommended that I read this book and I am amazed once again at what people are capable of learning and doing. It truly is amazing the types of situations these soldiers get themselves into and out of, what they have to do to get there, what they have to do once they're there, and what they have to do to get home. I can't say enough how interesting this book is. I enjoyed it a lot as you might be able to tell from my review.

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Great book on Special Forces soldiers

A really interesting look into the making of special force soldiers. The author, Dick Couch, is a former SEAL himself, so he knows what it takes to make our toughest military members. He was, I think, given unprecedented access to Green Beret recruit training, and Couch offers a fine first-person, memoir-like description of all he saw as the recruits arrived at Fort Bragg, NC for what was a grueling training process. After reading Couch's book, I'm convinced of a few things: 1) that US Army Special Forces soldiers are some of the toughest, smartest, and hardest working people on the planet; 2) that it is not easy to create new SF soldiers - it's costly, time consuming, and few people have what it takes to be SF soldiers; 3) that we need more of these folks considering the counterinsurgency wars we may be involved in over the next couple of decades, and they are not easy to create (see #2); and 4) that our political leaders should have been much more knowledgeable of these points before opting to invade Iraq. What some people are willing to take on for their country is amazing, and to know that there are Americans who already have it all and yet complain that they need tax cuts is pathetic. Anyway, Couch did a great job and offered a valuable window into the tip of the spear of American efforts to defeat terrorism.

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