(Part 2) Top products from r/MilitaryPorn

Adam Brown overcame a field full of trouble to become a Navy SEAL.

In his early 20s, he stole to support his meth and cocaine habit.

After cleaning up his act, he convinced the Navy to waive his shaky record and joined The Team.

https://www.investors.com/news/management/leaders-and-success/seal-adam-brown-terrified-bad-guys/



A Tribute to Adam Brown (24m 26s)

The life story of a true American hero — a husband, a father, a man of unyielding courage and faith. Fearless and selfless, with the ability to achieve anything, Adam Brown, above all else, exemplified the American spirit.

https://www.nratv.com/series/patriot-profiles/episode/patriot-profiles-season-3-episode-2-a-tribute-to-adam-brown

The Humvee that he was in that crushed and severed most of the fingers of his right hand. https://i.imgur.com/rfS1eDF.jpg

Adam with a group of Afghan children https://i.imgur.com/zcr8Ln8.jpg

SOC (SEAL) Adam Brown, 36, of Hot Springs, Ark, died March 17, 2010 in Kunar Province, Afghanistan while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Brown was assigned to an East Coast-based SEAL team. Brown was awarded the Silver Star, Bronze Star with Valor, and a Purple Heart. He was posthumously awarded the Silver Star. Brown, who served on the elite SEAL Team Six, was survived by his wife, Kelley, their two children, and his parents.

Greater Love Hath No Man Then This That a Man Lay Down His life For His Friends John 15:13 https://i.imgur.com/HFHCLR3.jpg


Fearless: The Undaunted Courage and Ultimate Sacrifice of Navy SEAL Team SIX Operator Adam Brown by Eric Blehm (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Fearless-Undaunted-Ultimate-Sacrifice-Operator/dp/0307730697/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

When I was at ASU, my boss told me how he was a super cocky guy, but then again most ASU jocks were. I also went to school with James Harden. That guy could ball! I just wish he hadn't left after sophomore year to OKC.

Check out Where Men Win Glory. It's a good book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman https://www.amazon.com/dp/030738604X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_uPC3AbBCFP55Z

An Honorable German, I love the book.http://www.amazon.com/An-Honorable-German-Charles-McCain/dp/044653899X

It is definitely a biased account but it's very digestible, if you want something with more depth but a lot harder to get through check out this. One of the problem's was the British army is too proud of their Northern Ireland performance and tried to directly transfer those skills to Iraq/Afghan without adjusting for local factors.

There is a good book about him. Slightly heavy on religion for my taste, but good nevertheless.

No Way Out does a great job detailing what a shitshow that Shok Valley op was.

yep cia bob and the sbs ,read all about what they were upto in this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bloody-Heroes-Damien-Lewis/dp/0099481952/ref=sr_1_1?crid=4NPHR1P0I489&keywords=bloody+heroes&qid=1555076490&s=gateway&sprefix=bloody+her%2Caps%2C164&sr=8-1

Not quite as bad, Germans were making "tractors" with cannons and French and British arms inspectors gave it a pass. See http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316529400

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_Delta_Force

http://www.amazon.com/Delta-Force-Militarys-Secretive-Special-Operations/dp/006224969X

wowwwww I knew this looked familiar. They used this picture for an old book I had that was supposed to be the journal of a marine named Patrick Seamus Flaherty.....weird.

Here it is:
http://www.amazon.com/My-Name-Is-America-Flaherty/dp/0439148901

EDIT: I guess this book was fiction.... If only 8 year old me knew.....

http://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Choice-Axis-Time-Trilogy/dp/0345457137/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376926573&sr=8-1&keywords=weapons+of+choice

Here ya go.

There is debate on that. Would the Russians have been too exhausted from the push West with supply lines stretched thin, or would their numbers and, at the time of mid-1945, superior tanks repel the attack and keep going West. I believe the first one, but here's a book with more details. http://www.amazon.com/Red-Inferno-1945-A-Novel/dp/0345506065

None Braver is a good book!

http://www.amazon.com/None-Braver-Force-Pararescuemen-Terrorism/dp/0451212959

About PJ's in Afghanistan

If you ever get a hold of this book by Herbert Werner, a former U Boat commander do pick it up. Astounding accounts of U-Boat warfare and the dangers of being in an U Boat.

My grandfather served with Bomber Command, the RAF's equivalent, so I've read a little about it and listened to his stories. More than half of those who served were killed - it was indeed one of the most dangerous jobs you could do. In 1943 you had a 1 in 6 chance of surviving your first tour, and 1 in 40 of making it through a second.

All RAF bomber crew were volunteers. My grandfather himself signed up because he was in the queue for the Navy and saw an RAF recruiting poster which made it sound glamorous.

Some men did break under the strain and they would be declared LMF - lack of moral fibre. They wouldn't be shot or imprisoned, although they would often be branded a coward and would immediately be moved away from the squadron to menial duties or something else out of the way. The exact details, of course, varied by case.

I asked my grandfather how he stood it and he said he always thought 'it would never happen to him' despite the odds; he was known as 'Lucky Smith'. This sort of youthful belief in immortality and superstition has I guess sustained combatants in dangerous situations throughout history.

This page has more on LMF, and if you would like to get more into what life was like on Bomber Command I highly recommend this book.

Reading Antony Beever's Berlin he states that Russian tanks would regularly drive through columns of fleeing German civilian refugees. Not entirely surprising considering the hatred they had for the Germans, following the nature of the war on the Eastern Front, but crimes nonetheless.

Many military trained state-run intelligence muscle were like that. Look up the latest copy of Gideon's Spies to read the reported shit that went on between Israeli Mossad and People's Republic of China's Ministry of State Security during the 2000s economic assistance to African nations. What they did to each other was extremely fucked up (i.e. blow up most of an occupied hotel to kill one agent, toss an opposite agency agent alive to the crocodiles in response to that incident). Most agencies kind of do that shit and, in a way, keep each other in check because of it.

This is on the cover of one of my all-time favourite books: Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. Basically its an oral history of the war.

And then read Storm of Steel by Jünger.

From the top-rated review at amazon:

"Storm" has been continually denounced for the last 80-odd years as rightist propaganda precisely because it does NOT come to the conclusion of Remarque, Hemingway, P.J. Caputo or any of the other combat literati who escaped their own slaughterous wartime experiences to write antiwar novels. It says -- if I may presume to paraphrase Juenger -- that war destroys civilian hypocrisy and, if it makes a man's boot come down grimly and harshly, at least makes it come down clean. Juenger's unforgivable sin was, apparently, to conclude that it "was a good and strenuous life, and that war, for all its destructiveness, was an incomparable schooling of the heart."