
by James Owen
Well, I guess Howard Wasdin didn't expect to survive as the lone operative on the bow of a ship carrying men working for Saddam Hussein. Nor did he probably expect to survive as he laid naked on a runway with two bullets in both of his legs, one leg nearly blown off. But that is all in a day's work for a United States Navy SEAL (SEa Air and Land) sniper.
When the United States Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six: a top secret tier of the SEAL Teams that specializes in counter-terrorism. This is the story of Howard Wasdin: a SEAL Team Six sniper who lived through the Navy's grueling selection process for the SEALs, managed to get through training to get into SEAL Team Six, and lived through one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military history. Join him as he takes you on a first person journey through the through the death stricken streets of Mogadishu, Somalia, the barren deserts of Iraq, and in the bay of a helicopter as its blades are sheared off. He recounts the exciting, the terrifying, and the embarrassing parts of his life. But for a SEAL, the only easy day was yesterday.