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"Part of a naval tradition dating back to World War II, the first SEAL teams were commissioned in January 1962. Formed to execute special missions and to counteract guerrilla warfare, which was becoming more and more common throughout the world, SEAL teams trained to fight in SEa, Air, and Land environments. Undergoing a training regimen considered one of the most difficult in the military, SEALs were underwater demolition experts, experienced parachutists, and specialists in a host of other skills. And their first real proving ground was Vietnam." "In Hunters and Shooters, fifteen SEALs who fought in Vietnam share their experiences - wins, losses, and lessons learned."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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出版社周刊评论
This work is based on the recollections of 14 men who served in Vietnam with the U.S. Navy's elite Sea-Air-Land counterguerrilla force. The SEALs built a reputation second to none among U.S. elite forces, combining small-scale raids with clandestine operations. They owed much of their success to their limited size (unlike the Army's Special Forces, the SEALs remained small enough to be highly selective). SEAL achievements ultimately reflected the quality of the personnel. Fawcett (field curator for the UDT/SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Fla.) and his associates, Kevin Dockery and S.N. Lewitt, allow the interviewees to speak for themselves. The usual results are matter-of-fact accounts of deeds so extraordinary that the interviews often demand a second reading to reconcile their casual tone with their remarkable contents. Hunters and Shooters is both a series of character studies in the best kind of military professionalism and a tour de force explication of modern small-unit warfare. (July) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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A surprisingly dry recounting of Vietnam war stories by a group of former SEALs, the Navy commandos who specialize in clandestine, behind-enemy-lines operations. Editor Fawcett provides transcribed testimony from 14 former SEALs, concentrating on their extensive and rigorous stateside training and their ``ops'' in Vietnam. The Fawcett formula: Each man relates his abbreviated life story, beginning with growing up and joining the Navy, ending with a recounting of his experiences in Vietnam. Along the way we get some interesting stories and anecdotes, but the narrative bogs down under the weight of too much military jargon and too many logistical details. For example: ``I wasn't carried on the official Detachment Bravo rolls in Saigon,'' one ex-SEAL explains. ``Though SpecWar knew where I was, not being on the Bravo list gave me more freedom to operate with my PRU [Provisional Reconnaissance Unit]. Det Bravo was the SEAL detachment in Vietnam that was to supply all of the `official' advisors.'' Fawcett, curator for the SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, Fla., says SEAL stories--mostly involving ambushes, kidnapping, intelligence gathering, sabotage, and long-range reconnaissance patrolling--have been ``largely untold until now.'' In fact, SEAL books have become a subgenre in the Vietnam combat action field. To name only those who appear again in Fawcett's book, Richard Marcinko has written four bestselling SEAL-filled action novels (Rogue Warrior, 1992, etc.), and James D. Watson III is the author of Point Man (1993), a memoir filled with tales of his three action-packed Vietnam SEAL tours. The SEAL Vietnam story has been told before; this collection merely adds new voices to the chorus. For Vietnam combat junkies who don't mind wading through acronym-infested waters to read stories of wartime derring-do.
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In this worthwhile addition to oral history, 15 SEALs tell their stories, concentrating on their combat experiences in Vietnam. The 15 include a few reasonably well known Vietnam veterans, such as combat author Richard Marcinko and Rudy Boesch, who has served in special operations probably longer than any other American, and also officers and men who spent only a few years with the SEALs but remember them ineradicably. They are definitely men who have walked a little or a long way apart from where most of us go, and their stories are not for the weak of stomach or the politically correct. The strong stomached and incorrect, especially those interested in the SEALs, will, however, find the book eminently readable throughout, for it adds considerably to our knowledge of those amphibious warriors. (Reviewed July 1995)0688126642Roland Green