Thursday, September 15, 2011

Review on the book Seal Team 6, By Howard Wasdin and Stephen Templin

The main character of Seal Team 6 is man named Howard Wasdin. In the book Howard Wasdin goes to

Somalia on a mission to kill the somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Howard Wasdin starts his career in
Somalia by spying, and riding in a humvee and helicopter. He even kills the warlords financer in a

firefight. Later, american intelligence reports that they had found one of Aidid's posts, and the military plans to inset him in the task force.

Long story short what Howard thinks is a harmless raid ends up as the battle of Mogadishu. This book is wild and will pull

you in if you let it, it not only tells you the life of an enlisted man but also the life of a Navy SEAL in the

most elite SEAL team, SEAL Team 6.



Howard Wasdin grows up in a small town in Florida and as a child, was physically abused by his father

eventually gaining a better tolerance to pain. Later in time when Howard Wasdin can't afford to go to college
for his junior year, he joins the navy and eventually joins the search and rescue team. Later he goes on

an aircraft carrier where he meets navy SEALs and through questions becomes very interested in

becoming a SEAL. When his time in the Navy is almost up, the big brass people asked him if there was

anything they could do to get him to reenlist, and he requested BUD/S or SEAL training. Howard got

into BUD/S and by using his sheer mental toughness got into SEAL Team 2! After two real life

missions he was promoted to the Navy's top unit: SEAL Team 6! Later after being wounded in the

battle of Somalia the army asked Howard to join the army's elite Delta Force. He declined though and

when he retired, Howard became a police officer, car dealer, and after learning how to become one, a

chiropractor. Although all in all it was painful he made it and is a great shining star in this book who did

more than his share to protect the country and attack it's enemies.