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. The result was predictable: all hell broke loose. Their unbelievable job was to test the defenses of the Navy's most secure facilities and installations. Then Marcinko was tapped to create Red Cell, a dirty-dozen team of the military's most accomplished and decorated counterterrorists. 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. 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. 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. (Mar.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. A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this countrys most elite and classified. Marcinko's anti-authoritarian behavior, as he improvises his own doctrine of unconventional warfare, makes for entertaining reading. He is evasive about the conspiracy charges brought against him but reveals that he is currently serving time in a federal prison. naval installations, creating so much havoc that Marcinko was arrested.

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. The super-secret Red Cell successfully penetrated many key U.S. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military careerand the riveting truth about the top-secret Navy SEALs.

Super-macho in outlook and behavior, Marcinko delights in recalling the traditionally gross behavior of the SEALS as well as his own unique experiences such as eating the brains of a live monkey to impress his Cambodian allies. Marcinko describes his combat adventures in Southeast Asia in the '60s his command of SEAL Team Six, one of the most effective counterterrorist outfits in the world, in the '70s and his pioneering leadership in the '80s of Red Cell, a unit designed to test the Navy's vulnerability to terrorists. Special-warfare devotees will find this to their liking: an insider's account of the Navy's amphibious commandos known as SEALS, by one of the group's most controversial veterans, along with Weisman (coauthor of Shadow Warrior ).

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