ROGUE WARRIOR: ROGUE WARRIOR I (PAPERBACK)

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Summary: Hardcore Navy Seals Action and Real Life Richard Marcinko
Review: The hardcore military thrillseeker Richard Marcinko shows the nation top secret involvement by the Navy SEALs and how he was chosen to create and command SEAL Team Six. This group of counterterrorist combat machines consisted of the best the armed forces of The United States had to offer in 1983. SEAL(SEa,Air,Land) Team Six, the most elite and classified counterterrorist units had the toughest jobs to deal with while in Vietnam. Marcinko also tells of the time in 1983 when SEAL Team Six was ordered to test the security of the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. The team easily infiltrated past guards and security to plant enough fake bombs in the embassy to total it. This did get Richard in plenty of trouble because he was always getting "ticked off" at the Navy after his team would raid a US stronghold and conquer it with absolutely no resistance. Marcinko was commonly found creeping through the worst of conditions in Vietnam to complete "snatch" missions, raid VC strongholds without detection, and be the Public Enemy #1 for the Viet Cong. Marcinko spent time in Petersburg Federal Prison for conspiracy to defraud the Navy because he told off too many Naval officers in his time. This just shows how Marcinko played by his rules and took orders only from his very own out-of-control mind. A great book for anyone who is living a movie life and wants to see what a real action hero is all about. Richard Marcinko and his death-defying missions and "So be it" attitude prove plenty of people wrong throughout the book and it will open up your eyes to the amazing top-secret Navy SEALs.

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Summary: Club a SEAL?!
Review: I'll tell you what: You'd need one HELL of big club just to put a nick in that "slovak" head of his. Without out a doubt, his Rogue Warrior series is the BEST "read" (to coin a phrase from all you 'intellectuals' out there)I've had in a LONG time. I even drew flak from my wife because she's aware of my attitude towards squids: There's nothing worthwhile about about them - from their bell-bottoms to the tips of their little bitty tentacles. Blame a few years in the Marine Corps for that attitude. All pun aside, however, you owe it to yourself to buy at least the first book in the series, Rogue Warrior, if for no other reason than to fatten the wallet of a man who can rightfully be called an American Icon. If there's at least one thing that can be learned from his work, it's this: Get the job done no matter what the cost - screw the system and by default yourself - but don't divert from the only thing that matters....your men and the mission. Dick appears to be a straight-shooter, at least insofar as morals are concerned, and that's something you can only say about a small percentage of people. Anywhere.

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Summary: This the U.S. Navy that you will never see in commercials
Review: The Rogue Warrior is easily the most honest and brutal book about life in the U.S. Navy. At least the life of a "Warrior". Rambo was a movie, this is for real.

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Summary: Excellent reading. But believable? Sometimes.
Review: Richard Marcinko is the stereotypical SEAL. I salute his bravery and disregard for his own safety in the face of the enemy. But are we expected to believe all of these escapades are real? I believe the military side of the story, but if there is a larger ego anywhere I'd like to know about it. Marcinko is definitley an excellent warrior, but this would be better reading if he had a better grip on reality.

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Summary: Action Packed! One of the greatest books I've ever read.
Review: The adventures of the S.E.A.L. team six is an absolutely amazing book. It has the real deep down seacrets of the most elite fighting force that the United states has to offer.It is extreamly funny and brilliant. The things that they did were unreal and the way he brought it out in words was amazing. It is the best book written about the military ever!

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Summary: How can you not like this book?
Review: I love Mr. Marcinko, what SEAL phanatic wouldn't? He is a great leader and probably a great man. Read all of the "Rogue Warrior" series. They are all great but this one is based on fact. Can't wait until the computer game and movie based on Mr. Marcinko's books come out.

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Summary: Excellent reading if you want spellbound excitement
Review: I didn't know anything about Richard Marcinko, until I started reading his Rogue Warrior books. However once I got into the series, I couldn't put the books down, I brought and read every book written by him. I have my husband and practically the whole neighborhood reading them. I can't wait until "The Real Team" is ready.

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Summary: Marcinko has captured his remarkable life in living detail.
Review: The autobiographical book, Rogue Warrior, is a book that definitely has the quality that makes you not want to put it down. The book is about the author's life from growing up in the poor and rural coal fields in Pennsylvania to dropping out of high school in the late fifties to join the Navy. After a few years in the Navy and after some prompting from some officers, the author earned his diploma. All the while he was working on graduating high school, Captain Marcinko was a member of the Underwater Demolition Teams, the predecessors to the modern day SEAL teams. During his thirty year stay in the Navy, the author ended up securing three college majors and ascending to the rank of Captain (just on rank below flag rank or otherwise known as Admiral) and designing, equipping, training, and leading the world's most elite anti-terrorist force, SEAL team 6. Not bad for a poor high school dropout. The author truly is a remarkable officer and so is his book. I would not recommend this book for people who are democrats, but I would highly recommend this book for those in the military and those who enjoy the military culture our nation shuns for some reason. Lots and lots of stars.

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Summary: It's all true,but I still can't believe he revealed himself.
Review: To know Marcinko or any one of us, is to know of our past upbringing that molds us into the foundation and character that we are of today. This book says it all with NavSpeak and sadistic chuckles in a fictious environment or we'd all be in lockdown by now curtious of Uncle Sam. The S--- that happens all around the world is true, and we are do-ers and not suave orators, nor do we ask to be elected to office. Dickie's first book establishes an Otter's foundation for what makes us tick inside, really deep. It starts in our childhood before adolescence, boot camp, the Teams and retirement. I'm glad he said it the way he did. If you understand Marcinko in this book, then you will understand what drives and burns the rest of us, to a certain degree. If you can relate to this book then you will be tickled pink with the rest of his books, like I was. Aloha, Howie Kalua's friend, T#3/Coronado

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Summary: A true view of what we stand for
Review: I saw Richards Marcinco's article on 60 minutes being former Navy although its never really former, I was interested. It isn't hard to believe that a man gets put away for doing the job he's hired to do. I like Richard Marcinco, and if he read this I'd say sir with a "c not a s" and wish him the best. He's a true patriot who fights the way it should be. This my friend is before the fiction. I've been through the newer style Navy and it's not the same. We as a society want peace but it will never happen, completely. The Navy and all military branches need people like Richard Marcinco. Enough about that, read this book and learn about a man doing his job the way he could do it best. the results could happen to any of us. GO RICHARD WITH A ONE MAN SALUTE!