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10-08-2015, 09:15 AM
LowTech
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I have a theory about Mann's book: I think he did the redaction himself as a marketing gimmick. It's so badly done that you can figure out what was blacked out by going a couple of pages back or forward or checking the index. That said, it wasn't a great book. I only took away three things from it: in his day the Seals were short on corpsmen, and the corpsmen training system was inferior to the Army SF pipeline; Seals thought Delta was rigid, cumbersome and slow; and Don Mann has a very high opinion of Don Mann.
My issue with spec ops memoirs in general is that they spend an inordinate amount of time recounting tales of selection. Selection isn't an objective and frankly it isn't any more interesting than any other military course. It's a means to an end.
One book that deviated from the trend was Pete McAleese's No Mean Soldier, where he writes words to the effect that "a lot of people have written about selection elsewhere. Suffice to say it was long and hard but lots of people pass. Otherwise there wouldn't be a Regiment." And then he goes on to explain why he's such a damn fine fellow. He does include some amusing anecdotes about trials with operational HALO jumps in Oman or Aden which basically amounted to everyone being scattered and spending more time trying to consolidate and get away than prosecuting the objective. Early days . . .
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