SEALs, UDT, FROGMEN; Men Under Pressure
New York: Ivy Books, 1994. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Mass market paperback. xvi, 334, [2] pages. Illustrations. Includes Acknowledgments and Prologue. Also includes chapters on The Definition of a Frogman; The Early UDTs'; Hugh "Wild Bill' Mitchell/The Reconnaissance of Guam; Mike Ferrell/Vietnam: A Personal Delirium; Frank Lahr/Introduction to UDT-3; Joseph Gannon/UDT Training--Camp Perry; Dale Calabrese/Liberty in Olongapo; Jerry Howard/Operation Deep Channel; B. Guilver & William Stubbs/UDT Training--Fort Pierce, Florida; Tim Reeves/Dwight Fisher; Virgil Stewart/Underwater Demolition Team 2; Mike Ferrell/First Tour In Country; Charles Greene/UDT-3 at Maui; Brian Curle/My First Real Operation; Alfod Brokes/Life Ashore at Florida Island; Darryl Young/Bottom Samples; Charles Hoffman/Life Aboard an APD; Mike Ferrell/Let's Go In-Country; Frank Lahr/Introduction: Operational Report: Guam; Frank Lahr/Guam Operation; Frank Shroeder/Apollo 15; Mullie "Moe" Mulheren/Section One--Guam. SEALs, UDT, FRONGMEN is the first book to give the broad picture of the history and assignments of SEALs at peace and at war. If you want to know what SEAL training is really like, how SEALs work together on the Teams, what it was like to conduct a canal-side ambush in Vietnam, how the world's largest demolition project was carried out, what it was like to survey a hostile beach after a clandestine lock-out from a submarine--it's all here. Sixty-one true stories from men who have served in the U.S. Navy's toughest combat reconnaissance units. SEAls, UDT, and Frogmen are key mission areas of the men who, since World War II, have endured the toughest and most sophisticated training of any military unit in the world. SEALs, UDT, FROGMEN is the first book to give the broad picture of the history and assignments of SEALs at peace and at war. If you want to know what SEAL training is really like, how SEALs work together on the Teams, what it was like to conduct a canal-side ambush in Vietnam, how the world’s largest demolition project was carried out, what it was like to survey a hostile beach after a clandestine lock-out from a submarine—it’s all here. Darryl Young, an ex-SEAL who trained in Coronado. heard of so many many SEAL impostors that he helped form a group called the "U.S. Navy Special Warfare Archives" to "root out wannabes" around the country. His zeal sometimes produces spectacular payoffs. Young caught one of his prize pretenders. Daniel J. Meyer, 48, president of a Vietnam Veterans of America chapter in St. Louis, Missouri. Meyer had long been proclaiming he was a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam era. For the past three years he flew a flag with the SEAL insignia outside his pub, the Ashau Valley Tavern, a hangout for vets named after the site of a famous battle in Vietnam. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: U.S. Navy, Reconnaissance Units, SEALs, UDT, Frogmen, Frank Lahr, Olongapo, Operation Deep Channel, Underwater Demolition, Wakayama, Special Forces, Special Warfare, Special Operations
ISBN: 0801410646
[Book #80719]
Price: $30.00