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Article: Chosen Soldier, The Making of a Special Forces Warrior.
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- Infantry Magazine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Chosen Soldier, The Making of a Special Forces Warrior. By Dick Couch. New York: Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, 2007, 396 pages, $14.95.
The creation of a Special Forces Soldier is considered by many the toughest training mentally and physically in the world. Dick Couch, the commander of a SEAL platoon in Vietnam, has written his best book yet on the training of elite warriors with this step-by-step walk through of the tough selection process and then the brutal mental and physical strainer each Soldier struggles through to become a Special Forces Soldier. Any individual preparing to develop himself into the most lethal, effective combatant ...