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Great book speaking truth. Covers unique ground not in other SEAL books.

Revisado: 07-29-24

I’ve read probably every SEAL book and enjoyed this. Author keeps it real instead of just wearing an over the top bravado mask. This isn’t a little compilation of BUDS/war stories; it’s a biography of a real person you get to know who operated at the pinnacle for a long long time…and what comes with that and after. New stories and cool connections with Adam Brown’s [Fearless] story. Author starts to choke up a few times while talking about his kids. Dads will understand. If it bothers you, just remember that this guy is 100-10,000 more badass than you even if you did a few years as infantry. I like the accession to Tier 1 peek too. Oh, and this book may show you the Way and guide you to eternal peace.

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Great book with fresh stories

Revisado: 06-28-24

This SEAL did ops in the delta and also across the border. Unique and enjoyable to listen as he has enough time in the Navy already (and commensurate rank) that coupled with his trident he could tell all the minions and morons “No effing way”. Vicariously you can root for him to bull in the china shop in order to perform at a high level. While I’ve probably read every book in existence on Vietnam and SEALs this doors a good job of telling first hand his stories so there isn’t the usual overlap of things you’ve already heard. Plus most all the UDT portion which is significant is novel and interesting covering fresh ground. If like to have a bourbon with the author because he seems like a salty SOB that would have you laughing and entertained the whole time as you give each other flak.

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Entertaining and honest & free of narrator mispronunciations

Revisado: 02-21-24

Entertaining and honest & free of narrator mispronunciations. The narrator did a 10/10 job which is very rare for a military book. He nails all the voices perfectly to make the story visible in your mind like a real person would react without the common over enunciation and fumbled military words that usually plague any war book. The author tells on himself a bit which makes him accessible, relatable and believable. Nonfiction/autobiographies lose most of its interestingness if the author is untrustworthy and telling a story too heroic to remain believable, where nothing is their fault and everyone else is out to get them or inept.

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Finally a philosophically driven warrior instead of simple lovers of chaos

Revisado: 09-15-23

This hero reminds me of my dad. Christian man volunteered to stop an invading, torturous evil into our ally’s country and did it with style to an exquisite degree. Some of the absolute best SOG missions too.

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Mostly boring, obvious statements & a few interesting anecdotes

Revisado: 05-03-23

Barring, obvious and conceptual with a few mildly interesting specifics. The details also mostly vaguely involve taxes and computer programs but not enough detail for anyone to replicate.

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A different SOG book by a dangerously smart guy

Revisado: 09-17-22

If you’ve ever met someone with charisma and razor sharp wit who always has everyone laughing this author would be that guy if you added him being a SOG bada$$. He’s the guy smart enough to pretend to be less awesome than he is, but has “too crazy to not be true” stories. Lots of great new stories or retellings in a great way from different perspective if you’ve already read every other SOG book. He is crass, but RT Habu and Covey were laying absolute waste to the S. Vietnam invaders every mission so you should be able to stomach some misbehavior to keep them sane in between the near lethal doses of danger they repeatedly took. However, it’s not the book for a car trip with young kids.
Narrator does a flipping fantastic job compared to (all?) other military book narrators. Only gripe is he says “cove-E” instead of “Cuv-E” like I’ve heard it in all the other audio books. Otherwise the constant torture of mispronounced words in a military audio book is marked absent.
Highly recommend, it brings something different than most Vietnam or SOF/SOG books. Definitely worth buying. The end brought goosebumps to my arms and I laughed out loud almost every day on the way to work listening to this. Good job, Brokenfish or whatever your name is.

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Great military story AND great narration

Revisado: 04-15-21

This book leads tall and stands out among military books.

Story: LT GEN Boykin has the credibility to write a story that’s exciting like a feature film yet plausible and representative of real operations.

Narration: This narration is the high water mark of greatness. It’s almost impossible to overstate how intolerable almost all narrators are of military books. 1. His voices are varied to bring each character to life and his accents are impeccable. No calling helos [He-lows] the infuriating [hellos] or any of the standard excruciating mispronunciations (except for the minor calling Bagram -> buh-Gram).
Great book that stays interesting.

Thanks, Gen Boykin.

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AGONIZING narration. Very good book.

Revisado: 03-27-21

This narration is probably a war crime. While all military book narrators for some reason are completely incompetent, blindingly uneducated and haven’t heard a news story in the last few decades to be able to feign ignorance of pronunciation... this book is unequivocally the worst. E.g. He calls the characters G.E.N. instead of just saying general even thought the first ranks are spelled out the first time. He calls CENTCOM, C.E.N.T.C.O.M and mispronounces endless normal words if they have multiple syllables or are above 4 grade reading level. The book is good but I can only listen for a few minutes a day before it disgusts me and the agony makes me switch books. It’s taking forever to get through it. The narrator has good voicing just horrible pronunciation. Can’t believe that all the people involved in recording this allowed him to constantly mispronounce words several times a minute.

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Heady on the JSOC organization but still filled with exciting true stories

Revisado: 06-26-20

Great book on combined special forces that doesn’t make you hear BUD/S description for the 50th time. However, only get this audible version if you can stand the narrator constantly mispronouncing anything associated with the military and recent world history. CH’INook, buh-GRAM (for Bagram), H.A.H.O. (spelled out EVERY time, even in a sentence where he says HALO), Abbit-uhbad, (for Abbottabad) and others. Otherwise you’ll hear some more rare missions, how attack air integrated with SOF ground teams and how egos and decision makers drove missions.

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Tier One quality in Military Books-Creme de la creme

Revisado: 12-30-19

This book is my favorite of about 50 military books. From truly innovative deception and psyops, to brave rescues and the use of audacity and air power to kill oppressive, warmongering communists in astounding ratios this book is packed with unique content and stories that exceeds most all other book’s high points.
Maybe in 30 years from 2003 we’ll get a flood of ‘suicide mission yet somehow impossibly survived’ stories as they become declassified but I’ve never seen a better source of wild tales.
I gave this 5/5 despite the narrator irritatingly saying PLAT-oon over and over, as that’s the only mispronunciation. Most voice actors are abysmal with anything remotely military calling helos “hellos” making me literally groan while listening, but this book is worth putting up with his few small sins.

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