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Williams, Gary
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Fiction
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Naval Institute Press
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English
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SEAL of honor: Operation Red Wings and the life of Lt
β Scribed by Gary Williams
- Book ID
- 100274486
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 654 KB
- Edition
- [Online-ausg.]
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1591149576
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy, commander of Navy SEAL Team 10, posthumously received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions on 28 June 2005 during a fierce battle with Taliban fighters in the remote mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Michael was the first recipient of the nation's highest military honor as a result of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. He was also the first naval officer to earn the medal since the Vietnam War, and the first SEAL to be honored posthumously. A young man of great character, he is the subject of Naval Special Warfare courses on leadership, and an
Arleigh Burke -class guided missile destroyer, naval base, school, post office, ball park, and hospital emergency room have all been named in his honor. In his bestselling book, Marcus Luttrell, the only survivor of Operation Red Wings, called Michael "the best officer I ever knew, an iron-souled warrior of colossal, almost unbelievable courage in the face of the...
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