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Seal Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper
The book Seal Team Six Memoirs of an Elite Navy Seal Sniper is a look at Seal Team Six. A Seal is the Navy’s elite group of Special Forces. This book is written by Howard E. Wasdin who was in Seal Team Six and Stephen Templin. The reason for writing this book is to inform people of what it is like to be a Navy Seal and how Howard E. Wasdin was born to be one. In this book Howard tells the reader about his life from childhood to BUD’s (basic underwater demolition) to sniper school to the battle of Mogadishu in Somalia. The theme of this book is how someone becomes a Seal. The thesis is that not everybody is born to be a seal and if you are treated like the author you will not have any better chances.
The author is very descriptive in the way he presents stories. One of his stories involves him on a mission to shoot a target from 500 yards away. The Reader feels like they are standing over him as he talks about what is going on around him. Even the way he describes what is happening to the gun in the story is amazing. The author also is great at narrating, he adds in essential details to make all of the stories sound real and if an average reader wouldn’t understand something it is explained short and sweetly. At the end of all of the stories the author makes a point to say that the missions and becoming a Navy Seal is hard and not recommended.
In my mind the book was very interesting. Some parts most readers could have dealt with less detail such as his abusive childhood. The book was extremely accurate coming from a Navy Seals point of view. All of the missions most readers have heard about have more details that the news couldn’t tell you. To me the book was very important, I like to know what how someone could go through something like becoming a Navy Seal and how they survive. Every detail was important to the story because if the author didn’t say what was said then the book could have been completely different.
The author’s arguments are very well said and

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